Why are cardiovascular diseases the leading cause of death in men and women in the united states?

If you take your average person, and look at their diet, it doesn't look so good. Eventually over time, if you continue a poor diet.. fat builds up in your arteries. Once these "fat" layers clog up in your arteries, you are prone to a stroke. If you are lucky, doctors can remove this. If we ate better as a society, this problem would be reduced to nothing.

Ithink the correct answer would be that since the disease is passed by a hand shake and can be cured with antibiotics that it could be an infection. an example could be that once when i was working in a bush camp, i got blood poisoning from blood blisters that got infected. our cook did not wash his hands after going to the bathroom and he passed staphyloccus on to the crew he fed. one other person also got a bad similar infection on the side of his face. i had to be rescued by helicopter and taken to the hospital so i wouldn't die!