Including high fiber foods in your diet can help to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of developing heart disease. The two types of dietary fiber are soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble Fiber For heart health, include foods containing soluble fiber in your diet. This type absorbs liquid and acts as a natural stool-softener. Another [...]
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The Holiday Season is a time for celebrating with friends and family. We extend good wishes to people we know and look forward to a New Year full of promise. Part of the celebration involves eating special foods that we don’t enjoy at other times of the year. With a bit of planning, you can [...]
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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a condition where the heart isn’t pumping strongly enough to keep the body’s cells well supplied with oxygen-rich blood. As a result, the lungs and tissues in the body become congested (they fill up with fluid). People over the age of 40 are at risk for developing CHF. More than [...]
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Losing weight is something that can lower your risk of heart disease. Here are some simple tips to help you get on the right nutritional track: 1. Add more fruits and vegetables to your diet. Fruits and vegetables are tasty and low in calories. They provide much-needed fiber and fill you up so that you [...]
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Patients who managed to survive a heart attack, who eat chocolate two or three times per week, reduce their chances of dying from heart disease by about one-third. The results of a study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine showed that eating chocolate less often also benefited heart attack survivors. The antioxidants in cocoa [...]
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You may be more familiar with the dangers of high cholesterol than high triglycerides, but if you happen to have elevated levels of both substances, your chances of developing heart disease greatly increase. You do have some control over your triglyceride levels, since they are determined by what you decide to eat. When you eat [...]
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Fish is not only a good source of protein in your diet; eating it regularly can help to lower your risk of dying from a heart attack. The American Heart Association recommends that people eat one or two servings of fish every week to get the benefits that the Omega-3 fatty acids in fish provides. [...]
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When it comes to eating well for your heart’s sake, be sure to eat a variety of foods. When we decide that certain foods are “bad,” it makes them more attractive to us. Rather than taking the things that you enjoy the most and putting them on a list of forbidden pleasures, why not vow [...]
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Attention all chocoholics! If you have had a heart attack, eating the sweet stuff may help to prevent a recurrence. A study conducted by researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute were looking at whether eating chocolate affects the risk for heart disease. Antioxidants, such as the flavonol in cocoa, may help to lower blood pressure and [...]
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You have probably heard that lighting up a cigarette increases your risk of cancer, but do you know why smoking and heart disease are related? Researchers at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona may have found the answer to that question. The results [...]
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