A heart healthy diet for you and your family

You know that you need to eat a heart healthy diet. But why, and what exactly does that mean?ADVERTISEMENT

To keep your heart healthy, you need to choose the right foods.Statistics show that heart disease is one of the major killer diseases in the US and UK, with more than 2500 people dying of heart disease each day in the US alone.

Though the scenario is equally alarming in UK, where coronary heart disease kills well over 100,000 a year, the encouraging news is that simply by making the right lifestyle and diet choices you can protect yourself against heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases.

Following a heart healthy diet can also help you lose weight, and helps maintain your weight at optimum level.

To help prevent all the cardiovascular diseases ? coronary heart disease, heart attack, angina, stroke - you should pay attention to your blood cholesterol levels.

Cholesterol, a fatty substance made by the liver, does have various uses in the body, but if its level in your blood is too high then the cholesterol can create plaque deposits on the inner walls of arteries, which then narrow and harden. This hinders the flow of blood, and if an artery becomes completely blocked, preventing blood from flowing to part of the heart, you could end up the victim of a heart attack.

High blood cholesterol can also lead to raised blood pressure, as the heart has to work harder to pump the blood through the narrowed arteries. Lowering your health risks by getting into a heart healthy diet can help change all that.

A heart-healthy diet can help protect your heart by:

Here are some guidelines to help you choose a diet that's good for your heart.

Follow these tips to make sure you have a truly heart healthy diet and you'll be on the road to a healthy heart and better fitness.

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