Eating vegetables helps fight coronary heart disease.

Treatment for coronary heart disease targets those risk factors that are most responsible for increasing risk in an individual. This includes high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, and/or overweight or obesity.

The first recommendation doctors usually suggest is to make healthy diet and lifestyle changes, such as eating a balanced diet that includes less saturated fat and more vegetables, quitting smoking, and losing weight. If an individual’s condition is high-risk, medication may be necessary, too. However, medication is not a substitute for healthy lifestyle changes but rather a complement.
For those cases of coronary heart disease that present immediate or severe danger, invasive procedures or surgery may be warranted. But again, even after such a procedure, healthy diet and lifestyle changes are necessary.

There’s just no way around it: Living a healthy life is the best and most recommended way to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.

For more information on coronary heart disease, see:

Diet and Lifestyle Changes that Treat Coronary Heart Disease: Your best defense is a healthy diet. Find out what the American Heart Association suggests you eat.
NCEP LDL Treatment Goals to Treat Coronary Heart Disease: Some people need to keep their “bad” cholesterol score lower than others. This page explains all the risk categories.
Medications to Treat Coronary Heart Disease: Drugs for heart conditions are becoming more common, but they never replace a healthy lifestyle. Learn how heart medication should be used.
Coronary Heart Disease: This condition is the culmination of years of plaque buildup in the arteries. Find out how to prevent it.