Heart Health

Simply put, heart health means that you have a strong, vital heart that is free of heart disease.

A healthy heart is often a matter of choices. The right choices. This mean you eat healthy, that you get up and exercise a little every day, you don’t smoke, and that you have some healthy way that helps you manage stress.

Natural Remedies for Heart Health

Diet Choices

  1. Vitamin Supplementation - no matter how healthy you eat, it’s hard to get the amount of vitamins your body needs each day.
  2. Lower your Triglyceride Levels - choose whole grain foods instead of processed foods. For instance whole wheat pasta instead of white pasta, brown rice in place of white rice, whole grain bread instead of white bread, and whole grain cereals instead of processed cereals with added sugar.
  3. Get enough Fiber Daily - fiber is the part of your food that doesn’t get digested. This is important because fiber helps you feel full, plus it helps to naturally lower triglycerides and cholesterol by reducing the absorption of saturated fats. High fiber foods help slow down your digestion, allowing your body to efficiently convert food to energy. Foods that are high in fiber include: whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
  4. Eliminate Table Sugar and Sweets - these have little nutritional value. These simple sugars work to increase your triglyceride levels. Simple sugar foods include candy, cookies, pastries or cakes, pop or any sweetened drink including sweet tea. On a 2000 calorie per day diet the total sugar intake should be less than 40 grams per day. This equates to about 10 teaspoons and includes the amount of sugar found in packaged and processed foods.
  5. Avoid Processed Carbohydrates - in most peoples’ diets the main source of energy is from carbohydrates. Carbohydrates can come from fruit and vegetables and these are good. But many people get their carbohydrates from processed foods such as white bread, rice, and pastas. These carbohydrates are not good for you and should be eliminated from your diet. These foods have been treated to remove their outer grain and they easily convert to sugar once you eat them. If you avoid these processed carbohydrates you can lower your triglycerides.
  6. Avoid Trans Fats - these fats are very dangerous for your heart. Trans fats raise bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Trans fats include anything with partially hydrogenated oils on the label. Other Trans fats include most margarines, shortening, many packaged food including Bisquick, Ramen noodles and soup cups contain very high levels of trans fat. Fast food like fries, fried chicken, and other fried items often have high levels of trans fats.
  7. Avoid Alcohol Use - alcohol is high in the type of carbohydrates that your body converts to triglycerides. Alcohol can also affect the body’s liver which can interfere with fat metabolizing.

Exercise

Besides healthy diet choices the best thing you can do for a healthy heart is to exercise for thirty minutes, five times a week. Exercise helps your body metabolize sugar and minimize the amount of triglycerides that are being created.

Fish Oi

Great for lowering LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and CRP levels, fish oil is one of the best supplements that you can take to increase heart health.