Diet is important ? I am sure this is nothing that you have not heard already. Yet you may still not take the time to improve your diet. Your diet and your heart health are directly related. By improving your diet you can improve your heart health.
Weight problems lead to an increase in many fatal and debilitating diseases. Including: heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke. Luckily you can control your risk factors for these diseases and more. What is the magic answer to controlling your risk? Your diet.
Living a healthy diet is about selecting more plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruit and legumes. Adding to that grain-based foods, preferably whole grains.
Consuming a small amount of lean meats, fish, skinless poultry, reduced fat dairy products, and moderate amounts of polyunsaturated or monounsaturated oils and fats makes up a healthy diet and helps to prevent and reduce heart disease. Here are some ideas for beginning your heart healthy eating plan.
Most of your meal should consist of fruits and vegetables of different colors. The meat, bread and starches should be no more than half of the meal.
Select whole grains at the store. If whole grains are not an option when eating out, skip the bread.
When you are eating poultry, remove the skin. Plus you only want to eat a 4 oz serving.
When consuming dairy make it low fat products. This means looking for the versions that say 2% and lower. Plus remember that dairy products, especially cheese have lots of fat and calories so should be kept to a minimum.
Try and consume fish twice a week, but not fried versions. Baked fish is the best for your heart (just don?t put too much butter on it!)
Don?t consume fried foods ? of any kind.
Focus on whole foods and not on processed and packaged foods.
Increase your consumption of water and reduce your intake of salt.
I know it is not easy to change your diet. Yet by taking the time to make changes that are lasting you can make big strides to a heart healthy life.
Make the changes today and you will be on the way to saying goodbye to heart disease and saying hello to a healthy heart.
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Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/02/19/heart-disease-prevention-and-what-you-eat/
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