2 High Fiber Vegetables

Healthy eating and a healthy diet must include high fiber vegetables to prevent heart disease, promote colon health and prevent kidney stones from forming. For those who detest the taste of kale or cabbage, there are many other kinds of greens to include with daily meals. Although all vegetables add to the benefits of eating healthy, many consumers mistakenly believe that each type is equal in content. Some foods, such as sun-dried tomatoes, have as many as eight grams of fiber, while cucumbers and bell peppers may have as little as one. Recommended daily allowances require 25 to 35 grams a day, so keep this in mind.

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4 Heart Healthy Foods include High-Fiber and Low-Cholesterol Selections

When you talk to most health practitioners about heart healthy foods, most will steer you towards those food items that are high in fiber and lower in cholesterol. If you were going to compile a heart healthy foods list then, you’d need to include such items as fruits, skinless poultry, vegetables, herbs, spices, lean meat, egg whites, legumes, beans, bran, whole wheat bread, and non-fat or low-fat dairy products.

Learn to Cook more Healthily

Making the necessary food substitutions, then is crucial in being successful in your goal toward eating more healthy foods for your heart. To get you started, begin by implementing the following plans of action:

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1 Calorie Restriction

Calorie restriction refers to reducing calorie intake to achieve better health. Calories are a measure of the energy released when the body burns any fuel including fat, protein, carbohydrates, and alcohol. Many studies have indicated that excessive calorie intake may result in various health problems such as cancer, heart disease, aging, and obesity. One of the reason that excessive calorie intake cause those health problems is that it facilitate free radical production in the body. Free radicals are considered to be a major causative factor for cancer, heart disease, and aging. Thus proper calorie restriction is an effective way to achieve good health and longevity. According to experts, certain things need to be considered in order to have success with calorie restriction:

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0 Water and Drink

Your body needs water or other fluids to work properly and to avoid being dehydrated. That’s why it's important to drink enough fluids. Water makes up about two-thirds of the weight of a healthy body.

Most of the chemical reactions that happen in our cells need water in order to take place. We also need water so that our blood can carry nutrients around the body.
However, we lose water all the time, through evaporation when we breathe and sweat. If the temperature rises or we do more activity, this increases the amount of water we lose.

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4 Heart Diseases and Foods

Coronary heart disease is the most common of all heart diseases. It is characterized by blockage in the coronary arteries that result in reduction of blood flows to the heart muscle, depriving it of vital oxygen. The clogging of coronary artery, known as arteriosclerosis, begins with fatty streaks in and under the layer of cells, that line artery walls. Gradually, the streaks are transformed into plaques-fatty scar tissue that bulges into the artery opening, partly choking off blood flow.

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If the clot becomes large enough, it can block blood flow, suffocating large patches of cardiac muscle, an event known as a heart attack or angina. Or if a blood vessel to the brain closes off or ruptures, it will result in a stroke. While the exact causes of coronary heart disease are imperfectly understood, certain major risk factors have been identified, including genes, gender, diet, and lifestyle - smoking, exercise, and stress.

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0 Aging and Foods

Aging is the progressive decline over time in physiological functions, including reflexes, vision, hearing, short-term memory and learning, physical strength and endurance, digestion, cardiovascular function and immunity. Two well-supported theories have been proposed to explain the biological cause of aging.

Based on recent scientific findings, a revolutionary theory called free radical theory of aging has been developed to describe the roles of oxidative damages to cells in the process of aging. The theory hypothesizes that oxidative damage by free radicals to genetic materials, proteins, cell membranes, and other cellular machineries is the genesis of aging and its consequences. According to the theory, free radical damage to our cells accumulates but our inborn ability to resist and repair the damage with antioxidants and enzymes declines as we age, resulting in chemical disintegration of our bodies, increased risk of age-related diseases, and eventually death. Therefore, the battle between free radicals and antioxidants in the body is a major factor determining aging rate and life span.

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0 Eat Healthy to Stay Thin and Reduce the Risk for Disease

Many people don’t learn how to eating healthy until they find out that they have heart disease, high blood pressure or a related illness. By making substitutions, reducing portion sizes and learning to cook more healthily, you can make improvements in how as well as well as significantly reduce your risk of illness or disease.

Include more Unsaturated Fats

Probably the best place to begin is to change the way you prepare certain foods. To eat healthy, you should concentrate on heart healthy foods that are low in cholesterol and high in fiber. Therefore, you’ll want to prepare your meals so that you are using fewer fats that are saturated and concentrate on including more unsaturated fats, such as olive oil or vegetable oil, in your daily diet.

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