If you have a poor diet which is high in saturated fats it can cause high blood cholesterol. Cholesterol is a type of fat called lipid which is made by the body. It is essential we have some of this for good health. It is found in every cell in the body however too much of it does cause high cholesterol levels in the blood which can increase the risk of high blood pressure.
High blood pressure makes your heart work harder to pump the blood around the body. Over a period of time this will damage your heart. The increased pressure can also damage the walls of your arteries, resulting in a blockage or causing the artery to split. Both of these situations can cause a stroke. High blood pressure produces hardly any symptoms, so it may go unnoticed until it causes something serious such as a stroke or a heart attack.
High blood cholesterol also damages and roughs up the artery walls which is easy for free floating fatty acids to attach to which causes atheroma. Cholesterol damages by blocking the blood vessels of the circulatory system. As cholesterol enters the blood it clings to the walls of the blood vessels such as arteries. If the blood vessels block completely it can cause an heart attack. Once the plaque has completely blocked the vessel, oxygen rich blood is no longer able to reach the heart, the heart quickly becomes starved of oxygen and thye heart muscle cells begin to die. This is what causes you to have a heart attack.
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