Dr. Bradley Serwer | Source | Chief Medical Officer, VitalSolution, an Ingenovis Health company - Cardiolog...

Most cardiologists we spoke with suggested eating breakfast within one to two hours of waking up. "To maintain a healthy blood pressure and diet, you must start your day off correctly," says Dr. Bradley Serwer, MD, an interventional cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, an Ingenovis Health company. "Eating breakfast within one to two hours of waking can establish your dietary mood for the day."

Dr. Bradley Serwer, a Maryland-based cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, an Ingenovis Health company that offers cardiovascular and anesthesiology services to hospitals nationwide, commented on the updates to Fox News Digital. "These guidelines have several unique takeaway points, but focus on primary prevention with established strategies focused on better diet, exercise, avoiding tobacco, improving sleep quality and treating known risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia," he said.

LDL cholesterol builds up over time, forming plaques in your arteries (the blood vessels carrying blood to your heart), which can slowly narrow blood vessels over time. A plaque is “almost like a little pimple in the vessel,” Dr. Bradley Serwer, an interventional cardiologist at Vital Solution in Pennsylvania, tells Yahoo Life. The surface of the plaque can easily rupture. Inside it are fatty substances, known as lipids, which attract clotting blood cells. Those blood cells rush over, as if to address an injury. But instead, the clot they form blocks off the artery and the blood supply that normally runs through it, which can trigger a heart attack.