How can dietary changes reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease?

What dietary changes can someone make to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease? Sure, so we spoke about hypertension being a risk factor, so certainly there's clear evidence that altering your dietary intake can reduce your blood pressure and it's really important to try and reduce your blood pressure as much as you can you know, there's really clear studies to show that having a really well-controlled blood pressure really helps you in terms of stroke risk reduction, risks past tax, and things like that. So thinking about things that can reduce your blood pressure are lots of vegetables, a well-balanced diet, beetroot juice can lower your blood pressure. Of course, reducing the salt intake can reduce your blood pressure as well. So those types of things help reduce your blood pressure. Also thinking then about foods that's obviously very fatty, you can imagine food that's very fatty is of course going to increase your cholesterol. So having an unhealthy diet from that point of view that's got a higher content of fat will increase your chances of your cholesterol going up which again means more is just flowing through the system and making it more likely to sit on the arteries. I've had some colleagues talk to me, I'm I'm vegetarian myself and I've had some colleagues tell me that a vegan diet surely protects against anything and surely even if you have coronary artery disease, as long as you take a vegan diet, then you don't need anything further. You don't need to worry about taking statins or anything like that. Sadly, that's not true. Being a vegetarian, you can still be an unhealthy vegetarian and eat lots of pizza and things like that and lots of unhealthy food. So a vegan diet on its own was better in some respects and certainly there's recent studies that show that reducing your red meat intake and increasing your intake of other fruits and vegetables reduces your risk of coronary artery disease. So, you know, that is definitely a feature, but a vegan diet on its own is not enough on its own to completely reduce cholesterol. Some of it will be genetic, and so, of course, changing your diet doesn't necessarily protect against that.