DOI: 10.36347/sasjm

Pages: 147-153

Globally, some of the top causes of morbidity and mortality are cardiovascular diseases. Since these diseases are chronic, they create a huge impact on the quality of life of the patients and economic burden on the family as well as the nation. The prevention and control of the diseases have not been quite as intended. While the reasons for the failure are not singular, non-pharmacological interventions play a pertinent role and yet they are often overlooked by the stakeholders. Since dietary factors form a major part of non-pharmacological interventions and can cause a universal impact with judicious choices, the present article aims at eliciting the various dietary factors affecting the cardiovascular health. Dietary habits like high salt intake, insufficient intake of fibre-rich diet and vegetables and fruits, high caloric foods with low nutritional value coupled with other unhealthy lifestyle cause unrestricted progress of cardiovascular diseases. Instead of being overly dependent on drug therapy, non-pharmacological interventions should be adopted to either complement drug therapy or treat milder form of cardiovascular diseases or prevent in the population at risk of development of the same.