Athlerosclerosis Display

To illustrate the risks of a high fat diet, we developed artery models as well as a working model of an aneurysm.

The arteries were made using two 1-foot lengths of a heavy cardboard cylindrical mailing tube that was 4-inches in diameter and spray painted red. In one artery tube, we created fatty streaks by applying thin streaks of yellow wax inside the tube. For the second clogged ar...