Heart Disease:Diet and Exercise

What You Need to Know

Video: Perspectives on Diet and Exercise
  • Heart Disease Crave Healthy Foods Doctor-Patient Video
    After Bypass, New Food Cravings
    Hated salads, now loves 'em
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  • Heart Disease Change Your Lifestyle Doctor-Patient Video
    It Was Either the Knife
    Or get serious about a heart-healthy life
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  • Heart Disease High-Dose Supplements Won't Help Doctor-Patient Video
    Skip Vitamins for Your Heart
    Diet and exercise do the real work, not pills
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  • Heart Disease Diet Awareness Doctor-Patient Video
    Big Dietary Change
    "I thought I was a healthy eater." Wrong!
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Why Supplements May Do Your Heart More Harm Than Good

Why heart patients need to choose their vitamins with care
If you're having trouble eating a healthy amount of fruits, vegetables, grains, and healthy fats, you may be hoping to fill those holes in your diet with a pill. Problem is, pills don't really work...  Read More

Dietary Fats Can Help—or Harm—Your Heart

How to choose more of the good and avoid the kind that can clog your arteries
Many people with heart disease try to banish fats, but they're missing out on lots of foods that can protect the heart. Avocados, nuts, fish, olive oil—they're all fatty, and they can all help keep you alive...  Read More

How Safe, Moderate Exercise Can Keep Your Heart Healthy

You don't have to be a marathon runner to beat heart disease
In study after study, exercise has been shown to slash the risk of heart disease and add years to one's life, even among obese people and other high-risk populations. While the benefits of exercise are well documented, the amount of exercise needed for those benefits to kick in is still disputed...  Read More

5 Shortcuts to a Heart-Healthy Diet

Quick and easy switches that really work for heart patients
People with heart disease tend to have something in common: Many have spent decades eating too much saturated fat and not consuming enough fruits and vegetables...  Read More

The Payoff of Cardiac Rehab—After a Tough Beginning

Studies suggest it can help you recover faster and live longer
Deb Kautz, 47, of Zumbro Falls, Minn., said she felt like "a wreck" after her heart attack. She was afraid to move, afraid that any exertion could set off another attack. This fear could have left her stuck to the couch, but she took another route...  Read More