What is Heart Health?

Heart health is taking care of your heart.

Doing this should help you to live a long and healthy life.

Healthy eating habits may be tested in the midst of a busy life. It is important during your thirties to maintain healthy eating habits and, if you’re married, to pass those habits along to your family

Start by changing your diet. Fresh produce should lay the foundation for this heart healthy diet, due to their protective benefit of seeking out and neutralizing free radicals that are detrimental to your health and to your heart.

Our society is obsessed with finding the one magic food to cure all, when the truth is you need to eat a variety of foods and look for multiple ways to get all the different nutrients you need, plus exercise,

Your kids may not believe it at first, but prove to them that healthy meals served at the family dinner table can actually taste good! In the process, use this time to teach them about good nutrition such as whole grains , beans and legumes, nuts, fatty fish, and teas are just as important, offering all sorts of complex heart-protective nutrients.

For your cholesterol eat walnuts and almonds nuts. They contain heart-protective phytosterols, which seem to reduce blood cholesterol. Also oatmeal contains fiber, which binds cholesterol, which in turn protects your heart.

By all means exercise. You can get your family into this by just taking a daily walk or riding bicycles together.