Heart-Healthy Eating

Is your diet lending your heart a helping hand or kicking it to the curb?

When it comes to body parts your body can't do without, the heart is king. But if you're like many people, you may be treating your beloved heart like an ignored servant. How can you make sure your heart receives a kingly welcome? By eating right.

The Basics

First, it's a good idea to know what heart-healthy eating actually is. Contrary to popular belief, a diet that is heart healthy isn't going to keep you from eating anything with flavor. You're not going to be miserable while on a heart-healthy diet. Actually, you shouldn't go on a heart-healthy diet - at least not one that lasts for a few months and fades away with your New Year's resolutions.

Rather, you should maintain heart-healthy eating habits every day of the year.
The simplest recipe for heart-healthy eating habits is to go natural. Most foods you find in nature and eat in their raw or cooked forms are very good for you and many of them actively work to strengthen your heart. On the other hand, manmade foods that are highly processed or infused with ingredients that add flavor and fat often put your heart in harm's way.

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