5.2 Discuss the relationship between diet, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and circulatory disease.

Having a healthy and stable diet will prevent high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and circulatory disease. This is because what you eat and drink can has a real effect on your body, the healthier your eating habits are, the lower your blood pressure will be. The less salts and fats you have in your diet the healthier your arteries will remain. All these habits have a knock on effect on your body because by having a poor diet you have a higher risk of the fats building up in your arteries, causing the passage ways to become narrow and restricting the flow of oxygen reaching your body. This then causes blood pressure to increase and the rate of blood will start to race faster maybe becoming blocked causing aneurysm, athomas or a blood clot, these all results in circulatory disease.Also by having a poor diet you are more likely to become obese, obese people are less likely to exercise and this puts enormous pressure on the heart and circulatory system.