Eating for a healthy heart means filling your plate with fruits and vegetables, paying attention to fiber, eating fish a couple times a week and limiting unhealthy fats like saturated and trans fats, as well as salt. And although no single food is a cure-all, certain foods have been shown to improve your heart health.
The heart is a very amazing, crucial and important organ of the body. It is necessary to point out here that, the HEART, beats about 3 billion times during an average life time. It is located in the center of your chest slightly to the left and its major function is to pump blood and also keep the blood moving throughout your body.
You have a big responsibility therefore to keep your heart healthy in order to maintain the flow of blood from one part of your body to the other (blood circulation). And for you to truly achieve this, you need to cultivate some habits and make them your lifestyle.
So, what are these habit?
The need to exercise on a regular basis by engaging your body in activities that keep your body moving in the area of walking, jogging, running, biking, skating, jumping, swimming and
so on and so forth.
Don’t smoke! Don’t smoke!! Don’t smoke!!!
It is bad for your heart.
Above all, eat healthy. It is important to note that, a diet based on fruits, oil-bearing nuts, whole grains, legumes and vegetables prepared in a simple manner gives the best results for the prevention of heart attack. As a result, it is very important to always include FRUITS AND VEGETABLES to form the basis of a heart-healthy diet.
Furthermore, for a heart-healthy diet, you must as a matter of fact eat at least five portions of fresh
fruit a day.
Avoid any kind of coffee and tobacco.
The need to reduce your level of sugar and salt intake
Eat a minimum of two or three portions of legumes a week
Eat whole grain bread and pasta in place of white bread and pasta that is refined
Perform some physical exercises three times a week minimum for at least 40 minutes
Eat at least one fresh vegetable salad a day that is prepared with seed oil or olive oil.
Health is wealth
