Heart Disease Diet Plan -- powered by ehow
A diet to help manage or prevent heart disease includes fiber from whole grains, fruits and vegetables, less bad cholesterol and less sodium. Learn about replacing saturated fats with good fats with help from a registered, licensed dietitian in this free video on diet and heart disease.
Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Charlotte Lawson, a registered, licensed dietitian here in Tampa Bay, Florida. Today, I'm going to share with you a little bit of information about a diet for heart disease. There's a few things that you can make, simple changes that can help you manage, that affects this disease or, actually, to help prevent this disorder. First off, start by increasing the fiber in your diet. Fiber comes from whole grains, fruits and vegetables. We don't digest fiber in our body, so it helps us to stay fuller longer, and it also helps to remove some of the bad cholesterol that we intake from our body, or that we just naturally produce by genetics. Secondly, look at the amount of saturated fat you're having in your diet. Saturated fat comes from animal products. This is the type of fat you see on the outside of steaks, or sometimes mixed into ground beef. Saturated fat actually clogs our arteries and acts negatively against our heart. Now, looking at different sorts of fats, try to focus on your monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. These come from vegetable oils, nuts and seeds and, sometimes, also fish. This is a good type of fat. This doesn't oxidize in our body, and actually can help to remove and lower the triglyceride levels in our blood. So, look at the different types of fat, trying to avoid saturated. Try to increase your monounsaturated. Also be aware of your sodium content. Sodium is found in everything that comes in a package, box or bag. So, read your nutrition labels. The idea would be to stay under 2,400 milligrams per day. This is the average amount of sodium found in one teaspoon of salt. So, try to aim for about 2,400, which breaks down to about 800 per meal. So, all in all, for a heart healthy diet, try to increase fiber, lower saturated fat, increase your mono and polyunsaturated fats, and monitor and reduce your amount of sodium intake. For more information on a heart healthy diet, check out eathappy.info. I'm Charlotte, and eat happy.
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