Heart disease arteriosclerosis

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Eating well can help improve your general health. If you have coronary heart disease.

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It is important to eat less Fats and Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a fatty substance which is mainly made in the body. The liver makes it from the saturated fats in food.

The cholesterol enters the blood and is carried around by proteins. These combinations of cholesterol and proteins are called 'lipoproteins'.

There are two main types of lipoproteins - low density lipoprotein (LDL) which are bad!

and high density lipoprotein (HDL) – not so bad!

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How to reduce cholesterol intake

You need to:

Reduce the total amount of fat you eat and eat starchy foods instead (bread, pasta, rice, cereals and potatoes).

Cut right down on saturated fats and substitute them with small amounts of polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats.

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Keeping a healthy weight Remember that losing weight involves both eating healthily and increasing physical activity.

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Professor Sir Charles George, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation,

"The fact that deaths from coronary heart disease are continuing to fall is good news and is in part a testament to the resources and skill committed to CHD in the UK today.

"However, the fact that we have one of the highest death rates in the western world is shocking - and a reality that we cannot ignore. While we can expect more people to survive the condition in the future, we need to consider the growing burden on the NHS to provide treatment and care for those living with CHD.

"We need to tackle the underlying causes of CHD in the UK - in particular lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity - if we are to improve the heart health of the nation."

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the message that CHD is largely preventable is clearly not getting through:

Smoking levels remain static in the UK - 29% of men and 25% of women still smoke.

Around 40% of men and women have raised blood pressure - despite recent evidence from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that it is the second most important cause of death and disability in developed countries - exceeded only by tobacco.

Only 13% of men and 15% of women eat the recommended 5 portions of fruit and veg a day. While the consumption of fruit has risen four fold since the 1940s, vegetable consumption has declined.