Can u tell me any of the foods that cause the blood to be thicker which cause the heart to have to work harder
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There are no foods that really cause the blood to be thicker.  Vitamin K foods will cause the blood to coagulate a little quicker.\n\nMany people do not realize how much fluid they need each day.  If you are not drinking 8-10 cups of fluids - especially water, your body will not be well hydrated, and blood will become thicker.  If you do not have enough fluids, you will probably have symptoms that include darker urine, more constipation, thicker saliva, more fatigue and possibly nausea.\n\nI suggest that if you are not using enough water, and you have these symptoms, begin drinking more water.\n\nGood Luck!!    Lenore Hodges PhD, RD, LD
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A low-fat diet for some metabolic types can cause changes in your cholesterol profile that may lead to an increased heart disease risk.  Starving your body of good fats is especially dangerous for your heart.
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Anythings excessive cause toxic in our system.you need. plenty of water to flush them out.Too much oil cause us to become fat and put a heavy load on the liver,.too much protein put a heavy load on the kidney,too much sugar will lead to diabetes,\ntoo much acidic food is bad for the digestive system,too much meat is bad for the intestine so you need to balance with vegetable and so forth.
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bananas\ntoo much potassium in your system can cause a heart attack or even death
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butter\nmargerine has trans fatty acids.. and thats the stuff that kills you
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"Thickening of the walls is related to hypertension.  Systole occurs when the left ventricle of the heart is pumping the blood through the body.  Think of a water hose, when more force is applied by the water pump, more pressure is applied against the inner walls of the hose.  This is the same with the heart and arteries.  arteries are surrounded with muscles that contract and expand the artery to help maintain enough pressure to feed a sufficient quantity of blood to all of the cells of the body.\n\nJust like any muscle these muscles around the arteries get larger with increased use and increased resistance.  When these arteries thicken because of this muscle growth the inside area of the artery becomes smaller providing less of an area for the volume of blood.  this restricts the flow of blood and makes the heart beat harder and faster to deliver the required amount of oxygen containing blood to the cells.  This decrease in flow area also then allows plaque, and clotting blood to stick to the side of the artery further narrowing the flow and finally depriving blood to an area where it is needed, like the heart, and results in death of the cells of a particular organ, such as the heart.  Thus causing a "heart attack".\n\nsystole is the term used for describing the pressure against the artery wall when the heart is contracting.
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high blood pressure and heart dieases and...lets see....dehydration\ntry watermelons!^^
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It's not what you take, it is what you don't take. Stick to drinking water.  Avoid salt, sugar, caffeine. Eat raw veggies.
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Stress and high blood pressure go hand in hand. Also things like: smoking, alcohol, drug use, obesity, lack of excersize, diet ( especially high sodium content), age, family history, and side effects of other medications.
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Look up \nhttp://drchander.com/heartmurmurfaq.html
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Stuff with lots of sugar, especially sodas and other drinks.  Try just drinking water.
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there are two types: bad cholesterol (found in foods like red meat) that clot your blood vessels and good cholesterol (found in foods like nuts) that lower the risk for heart disease.
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deep fried food, food high in saturated/trans fat,\nrefined carbohydrates (incl. sugar)
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Heart disease\nHigh blood pressure
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No that is hot true high blood pressure is sometimes cause by high levels of starch in a diet amongst other things and rice, pasta and potatoes are starch foods and are also high in carbohydrates.
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Try eating plenty of garlic either in the food you eat or in capsule form ,garlic cleans fat deposits out of your arteries and veins leaving more room for the blood to flow.
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If your doctor actually said that the walls of your heart were thickening,he is talking about heart enlargement,maybe to the point that the heart,a muscle,is having troubles opening and closing(also called pumping) and pushing  blood through it's four chambers to circulate oxygen-enriched blood throughout the body. This is commonly referred to as heart failure.If your doctor said there was thickening in the arteries,this means that the major arteries are clogging up with fatty placque which also impedes the circulation of the blood throughout the body;it can also lead to a heart attack or stroke.Go to the website for The American Heart Association and the site mywebmd.com for more clarification.