| Home Simple Français Good Food ... Index Tips On How To Have A Healthy Heart If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what would it take to avoid a heart surgeon? Would you believe a good vitamin mineral supplement some omega-3 oil (canola-rapeseed, flax, fish) ? Add a diet naturally high in fiber but low in processed food and hydrogenation hardened fats, and maintain a good lifestyle ( in this order : 1. don't smoke, 2. control waist size, 3. manage stress well, 4. some exercise), and you will improve your general health and prevent or help heart disease. This website looks at the food, supplement and prevention side of the picture. Nutrition in medicine is my long-term interest, not my job, so this site doesn't generate money or sell anything. Here are tips and ideas that should, with little effort, improve your health, your "distance from disease". Science shows that a heart healthy diet is one with relatively unprocessed foods, with veggies and fruits, and with rice or grains that retain much of their original kernel- structure . Those are the foods that became scarce in Western diets. If you can't recognize part of the original food, the item is processed or refined. | |
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