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Healthy eating can lower your risk of heart disease by helping you to control your weight, lower your cholesterol and control high blood pressure.

Tips To Help You Lower Your Fat Intake

1. Eat fewer high fat foods such as:

 • fried foods

 • potato chips

 • processed meats

 • fatty cuts of meat

2. Use low fat ways to cook such as:

 • broil

 • steam

 • bake

 • poach

 • barbeque

 • microwave

3. Buy low fat dairy foods such as:

 • 1% or skim milk

 • frozen yogurt. yogurt with less than 1% milk fat (M.F.)

 • skim milk cheese

4. Eat smaller portions of meat.

 • Three ounces (90 grams) is a serving. This is about the size of a deck of cards. Two servings a day is plenty.

 • Trim all the fat you can see from the meat before cooking.

5. Choose poultry and fish more often.

 • Take the skin off the poultry.

 • Serve fish without batter or coating.

 • Choose fish canned in water instead of oil.

Keep your heart pumping strong with healthy tips:
 
1. Add some fiber to your breakfast. Try some oatmeal with fruit and start our heart on the right beat.
2. Eat your fruit with the real on! Try some apples, pears or peaches for a sweet treat the your heart will love!
3. Include some berries in your smoothie – they give your heart a healthy punch!
4. Go low fat with your cheese and your heart will smile!
5. Say no to transfaz! Read the food labels and your heart will thank you.
6. Change your grains (bread, crackers. pasta and tortillas) to 100% whole grains and give your hear tiber power:
7. Add some beans to your dinner, they are good for your hear.
8. Add a handful of nuts in your salad. low fat yogurt or as a little snack. They have lots of protein and help your heart think smart.
9. Pm the music on and and dance and your heart will be moving to the right beat.
10. Your bean is a muscle and loves a good workout. It needs exercise every day.

A new study has suggested that even more omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin B12 in their diet could help reduce the risk of vegan heart disease.

Although meat eaters are at higher risk for a significantly higher combination of cardiovascular risk factors, scientists say strict vegetarians may be lacking some important nutrients that they also provide a risk for heart attack and stroke.

The findings are published in a review of dozens of articles on the biochemistry of vegetarianism in the past 30 years.

He suggested that although a vegan diet provides enough protein, it could be lacking in iron, zinc, vitamin B12 and omega-3 fatty acids.

As a result, vegans often lower “good” HDL cholesterol and higher blood levels of homocysteine, that they have put the risk of heart disease.

The results led the researchers found that “could not complete vegetarians and vegans from increased intake of n-3 PUFA and Vitamin B12 benefit, making the chances of developing blood clots and cardiovascular disease.