Diet and dislipidemia: anthropological vision and current recommendations.

Abstract

In the therapy and prevention of the cardiovascular diseases little emphasis if gives to the non-pharmacological treatment and changes in the life style. Usually preference to the medicine treatment is given, more easily than to try to change the habits of the individuals, which demand time and patients of the two sides. In this monograph a revision of the importance of the diet in the reduction of plasmatic lipids is carried through. It is compared diet of our ancestor ones with the current one and where if to intervene to get benefits. To long of the evolution the human being, it had development of the profile economizer, to survive the times of shortage, what it became an upheaval in the current days, increasing the incidence of cardiovascular illnesses, obesity and diabetes. The diet has little power in reducing the plasmatic cholesterol levels, however exactly with modest reductions in the plasmatic cholesterol levels, significant reduction of the number of cardiovascular events exists; It is to have of the doctor to implement measured dietary as therapy of first line in the reduction of cardiovascular events. Diverse other diseases are related to the inadequate diet. The stimulation the changes of the life style is practical holistic in the exercise of the medicine.