Tips food and exercise for healthy heart
How does what I eat affect my heart?
The food you eat affects the way blood flows through your heart and arteries. A diet high in fat can cause a gradual build-called “plaque” in your arteries. That buildup slows down blood flow and blocks small arteries.
Healthy Heart
If the blockage happens in an artery that carries blood to the heart muscle of the heart muscle can die. That’s a heart attack. If the blockage happens in an artery that carries blood to the brain, part of the brain may die. That is a stroke which is also known as a stroke. A proper diet helps keep your arteries clear and reduces the risk of heart problems and stroke. Keeping your heart healthy by watching what you eat is not as difficult as it sounds!
- Eat less, especially butter, coconut and palm oil, saturated or hydrogenated vegetable fats such as Crisco, animal fats in meat and dairy fats.
- Use cooking spray to prevent sticking of vegetable oil instead of oils.
- Buy lean cuts of meat, reduce the portion of meat to three ounces: the size of
- A deck of cards.
- Eat more fish, skinless chicken and turkey.
- Try to eat sandwiches with low fat content and have been baked instead of fried, such as threads coated with salt: pretzels.
- Take buy skim milk and cheese, yogurt and margarine are low in fat.
- Buy fruit ice cream, ice milk or frozen yogurt with low fat ice cream instead.
- Eat a bagel “or an English muffin” instead of a donuts or a biscuit.
- Do not eat more than four egg yolks a week, use egg whites
- Egg substitutes.
- Bake, broil, steam or grill foods instead of frying.
- Eat fewer “fast foods” like burgers and fries that have a high fat content.
- Eat more fruits, vegetables and carbohydrates such as rice, pasta.
- Breads and grains.
- Drink beverages that have few calories, such as unsweetened tea or diet soda.
Aerobic exercise makes you breathe more deeply and makes your heart work harder to pump blood. Aerobic exercise also increases the speed at which your heart beats which also burns calories. Examples of aerobic exercise include walking, jogging, running, swimming and cycling.