Heart Healthy Foods, Learn how to keep your heart healthy
What are Heart Healthy Foods
Nutrition plays a role in four of the risk factors for heart, stroke and blood vessel disease: - high blood lipids (fats), high blood pressure, diabetes and overweight.
Heart foods and healthy eating is about choosing:
Mainly plant-based foods
– vegetables, fruit and legumes (dried peas, dried beans and lentils) and grain based foods (preferably wholegrain) such as bread, pasta, noodles and rice;
Moderate amounts of lean meats, poultry, fish and reduced fat dairy product. Meat should be trimmed of visible fat and not have a lot of “marbling”, chicken without skin and eat processed meats sparingly i.e salami.
Moderate amounts of polyunsaturated or monounsaturated oils and fats which are heart healthy foods. Use these instead of saturated fats.
The Heart Foundation Tick (Applicable to Australia)
The Tick is the Heart Foundation’s guide to heart healthy foods.
It will help you make healthier food choices quickly and easily. Foods with the Tick are healthier choices among foods of their type.
Tick foods are lower in saturated fat, sodium (salt) and where appropriate kilojoules. Some are also higher in fibre.
All foods are independently tested and assessed against strict nutritional guidelines before getting the Tick of approval.
Try foods with the Tick for a taste of healthier eating.
|The Mediterranean diet
This diet has long been associated with a healthy heart. Mediterranean countries have low incidence of heart disease. This may be due to a high consumption of: fish, olive oil, olives, nuts, fruits, wise, grains and low consumption and red meats and fatty, processed foods, compared to other countries. See (copy of Mediterranean diet) for a typical Mediterranean diet.
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|Olive Oil Nutrition Facts
Olive Oil has been a part of Mediterranean culture for thousands of years. The reason been is that although it's an oil it still has many beneficial properties for our bodies!
Read on to learn why Olive Oil Nutrition Facts are so great compared to other oils!
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