Heart Disease and Cholesterol

by admin on March 8, 2010

Heart disease and cholesterol are two of the serious issues we need to deal with daily of ourselves and our families. High cholesterol can cause serious health challenges such as stroke and heart attacks.

Eating a diet rich in low cholesterol foods such as raw fruits,
raw vegetables, legumes, whole grain products and lean
proteins will help you control cholesterol. Your children
will watch what you eat and so we need to eat healthy foods,
this shows them that they can do the same.

Heart disease and cholesterol can be controlled by the
foods that we eat. Excluding all those fried foods such as
french fries, fried chicken and fried anything. Watching
what fats we eat will also help with dealing with heart
disease and cholesterol.

This video can help all of us lower our heart disease risk
and keep that high cholesterol our of our lives. Even the
spices we use in our cooking can affect heart disease and
keep that cholesterol in the healthy ranges for our best health.

ChefMD® Recipe: Moroccan Chicken and Two Bean Salad

Fiber-rich black eyed peas and edamame help lower heart disease risk,
notes Dr La Puma. Eating beans and peas four times per week lowers
heart disease risk by 22 percent. Paprika, cumin and coriander add
major flavor to the dish without adding calories. Get the complete
recipe here: www.chefmd.com .

Heart healthy recipes mean learning to avoid having heart disease
and keep cholesterol healthy as well. Dealing with heart disease and
cholesterol means adding the great foods to our diets as raw fruits,
raw vegetables, the whole grain and the high fiber foods that have
the amazing heart healing Omega-3′s in them such as the good
healthy fish of salmon.

Heart Healthy Recipes

Eating a ‘heart healthy’ diet doesn’t mean you need to eliminate certain
foods. It means that you should add certain foods that promote heart
health such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, high-fiber and foods rich
in Omega-3 Fatty acids. Check out our delicious recipes.

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