Coronary Heart disease is when fatty materials form a plaque build up on the walls of your arteries and causes them to narrow, making blood to the heart slow, or in severe cases stop, causing a heart attack. First I’ll be talking about the lifestyle changes, next I’ll talk about the symptoms and lastly I’ll talk about the medication and its draw backs.

Having heart disease requires you to make some life changes but nothing really intense. You may be required to take some medication although you’ll need to exercise a lot and avoid salty foods, eat a healthy diet; stop smoking (if you do) and Reducing stress would help to. My grandmother had heart disease and for her it was some times easy and other days it would be hard to keep healthy seeing as she lived in a small village in Serbia. My mom would say that my grandmother would seem tired and be holding her chest a lot when doing something difficult, she never knew she had it until. But it would be easy to maintain a healthy life style when you grow your own meat and vegetables and I guess the work you do around the house would count as exercise. In conclusion heart disease is a some what easy disease to hold off.

The symptoms for the disease are easy to spot even though there are a lot. What I said about my grandmother before, about her holding her chest is one of the symptoms; Chest pain is one of the first signs al well. If you have difficulty breathing or shortness of breath then that’s another. I think the best way to find out if you have heart disease is if you have irregular heart beats, I’d also think that by that time your arteries will be closing fast. My Mom can only remember my grandma having Chest pain and shortness in breath but my dad’s father had heart disease and my dad can only remember him being dizzy and having chest pains but he always knew because my dad grew up in the city and I guess city people are more concerned about their health. In conclusion these are but three symptoms of heart disease out of maybe ten or fifteen.

There are of coarse several medications out there for heart disease if you’re not willing to eat healthy and exercise but I’ll only be going threw the ones that can have some draw backs. Aspirin is first on my list and probably the most commonly used drug because it helps open the arteries although it should be used by people who have already had a heart attack. Aspirin is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Next are Beta blockers also common but probably has a deadly defect because they are supposed to slow the heart down to prevent heart attacks and lower blood pressure but slowing the heart isn’t a good thing regardless. In conclusion there are drugs out there that could hurt you more then help you although there are some will very minor draw backs but still the experts always say that the best thing to do is just exercise and eat healthy.


In conclusion to everything we could say that heart disease isn’t really a deadly disease as long as you maintain a healthy diet and exercise, or you could be lazy and take the expensive way out and take drugs that could potentially hurt you its your choice. Since this disease is on both sides of my family I have to watch out this disease myself and try to prevent it from affecting me. My grandma to this day lives with heart disease and from what I hear she’s doing fine with it although there are the pains you feel from the disease that she’s been feeling for years now and I’m surprised she’s just held on with it. My dads’ father has been fine with it while he was alive, he was also a healthy guy and always tried to be healthier but old age prevented him from exercise which made it harder for him to live it with. So far none of my parents show signs of heart disease which comforts me a bit but it’s really something that can affect everyone. I hope you enjoyed reading this essay on Heart Disease.



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