On the last Sunday of September each year, the information and education activities of the “World Heart Day” are being carried out all over the world. As early as 1999, the World Heart Federation decided the last Sunday of September each year as the “World Heart Day”, in order to promote a series of information and education activities on the prevention of heart diseases and to call for the people to pay high attention to the disease. The theme of the “World Heart Day” this year is to “know your risk factors”.
People usually take heart as the engine of the human body. When the heart of a person stops working, his life has come to an end. According to statistics from the World Heart Federation, one out of three deaths in the world is attributed to cardiovascular diseases, ranking No.3 place in the total death toll, next only to malignant tumor and cerebrovascular diseases.
Chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, are usually called as the lifestyle-related diseases. The unhealthy lifestyle, including excess drinking or smoking and irregular life, is likely to evoke vasospasm and unsmooth blood flow, which may lead to occurring of cardiovascular diseases at younger age. The obese people and those who have an unscientific dietary habit are easy to suffer from atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases due to a high content of cholesterol caused by over nutrition.
It is not negligible that the age of the population who suffers from heart diseases are becoming lower and lower. People at the age from 40 to 50 are the most risky for they usually play an important role both in work and in the family. They are living under a high pressure and mental tension, causing such severe problems as nerve maladjustment, disorder of metabolism and arteriosclerosis. As a result, some of them will die of heart diseases or even die of a sudden death.
Disease prevention is of far-reaching significance to the high-risk population of the heart diseases. People must get rid of risk factors of heart diseases, such as obesity, imbalance of nutrition and smoking. First of all, one must pay attention to reasonable diet: eating more coarse-fibred food, such as, coarse grain, dried beans, vegetables, fruits, etc., because these course food can help reduce the content of cholesterol in the blood serum. Secondly, one must reduce the in-take of fat and cholesterol by taking as less as possible such food as animals’ internal organs, yolk of eggs, clamshells, etc. One should also take less salt for excess salt will lead to high blood pressure. Over taking of salt has become a common health problem, especially in Beijing, which deserves people’s high attention. People should develop a healthy lifestyle. In addition to quitting smoking and drinking, they should maintain a healthy and peaceful state of mind. In order to get rid of the risk of heart diseases, one should not become too excited (for it may lead to insomnia), overtired or irregular in life because these factors are likely to evoke heart diseases.