Are Salt Substitutes Actually Good For You?

High blood pressure issues require some restrictive dietary needs. Omitting or seriously moderating your sodium intake is one of the most common dietary restrictions for patients with high blood pressure. This is because excess sodium increases the amount of fluid in your body, which puts additional pressure on your heart. The typical American diet tends […]

Battle High Blood Pressure with Delicious Meals

Eating well with high blood pressure is important to your overall health. However, just because you have to battle high blood pressure and have to eat a healthier diet to maintain it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your meals. In fact, as you focus more on your meal planning and healthy cooking, you might find […]

Non-Concentrated Sweets Diet – Facts You Should Know

As the name implies, the non-concentrated sweets diet is one that eliminates concentrated sweets from your diet. This includes foods that have certain ingredients including corn syrup, fructose, maltose, dextrose, sorbitol, sugar, brown sugar, honey, or molasses. The non-concentrated sweets diet is one that some people consider highly restrictive and will take some getting used […]

7 Tips for Cooking Lower Fat Recipes to Improve Your Heart Health

Let’s face it, most people love eating fatty foods. Our culture is fond of eating fried foods because they are easy to cook, and at the same time very delicious. However, these foods do not sit well with our heart and its blood vessels. Young people may think that older people are the only ones […]

Oatmeal Is Good For Your Heart

Oatmeal is almost a perfect food, because it has fiber and a good amount of nutrients in the vitamin and mineral category and it makes your heart healthier just by eating it. Oatmeal has soluble fiber – about 6 gm of fiber in 1 1/2 cups of cooked oatmeal (3/4 cup uncooked).  Soluble fiber lowers […]

High Blood Pressure Diet: What Should I Do?

Learning more about what you should be eating to lower your blood pressure is an important first step.  To know how to follow a high blood pressure diet, you can follow some simple steps to make your meal planning easier. If you are currently suffering from high blood pressure or hypertension, then you should consider […]

Using Specially Made “Free” Labeled Foods Is Not Always The Best Idea

I am going to rant a bit about the “free” foods that you and I see everywhere. The abundance of these types of food is what is partially responsible for our current epidemic of obesity.  Yes, I know that you and I eating these foods is really what causes the problem, but the perception is […]

Cardiac Diet Meal Plan: 5 Tips to Try

Did you just find out that you have a need for a cholesterol diet menu plan?  Do you have high cholesterol? Not sure what LDL or HDL means? Did your doctor just tell you to stop eating salt and red meat? And you don’t know how that can happen because you love meat? And you […]

Cardiac Diet for a Lifestyle of Heart-Healthy Meals

Following a healthy heart-smart Cardiac Diet plan is one of your greatest weapons in the fight against heart disease. If you already suffer from heart disease or if you are at risk for developing heart problems then the foods and liquids you consume each day play an important part in the health of your heart. […]

The American Heart Association Diet

The American Heart Association Diet is part of the overall health awareness provided by the American Heart Association.  March is heart awareness month and the purpose is to make every single person aware of the dangers of cardiovascular diseases and strokes and how to make some simple lifestyle changes that will insure the health of […]