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7 Heart-Healthy Foods
Certain key foods can dramatically reduce your risk of getting heart disease. Add these low-cholesterol superfoods today for a healthier heart tomorrow. View slideshow
How to Have a Healthy Heart For Life
Heart disease is preventable. Here, what to eat to keep your heart beating strong, now and for decades to come.
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20 Best Foods for Fiber
Fiber can lower blood sugar, cut cholesterol, prevent colon cancer, and even help you avoid hemorrhoids. Here are 20 fiber-rich foods to considerand tasty recipes that contain them. View slideshow
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9 Low-Fat Holiday Desserts
All the things that make holiday desserts deliciousbutter, milk chocolateare also the ingredients that are high in saturated fat. Instead of passing up the dessert tray, bring these guilt-free desserts. View slideshow
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5 Fab Fish Dishes
These recipes all feature safe fish, so break out the lemon wedges and treat yourself tonight to this ultimate summer health food! View slideshow
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5 Heart-Healthy Fall Meals
High cholesterol is no reason to avoid your favorite fall foods. Indulge wisely with these five recipes. View slideshow
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The 22 Worst Foods for Trans Fat
Trans fat can make food taste good, last longer on grocery-store shelves, and more hazardous for your heart. Many food manufacturers and fast-food chains have removed or reduced trans fat. But it still lurks in many foodshere are 22 to watch. View slideshow
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24 Tasty, Low-Sodium Recipes for Every Meal
From hash browns to ceviche to corn chowder with sausage, here are some meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as snacks and drinks, that taste great without boosting your blood pressure. View slideshow
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Butter vs. Margarine: How to Choose
There's a reason you're confused in the butter aisle. Not all margarines (or butters) are the same. Here are some of the best and worst products for your heart. View slideshow
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Farmed or Wild?
Do you know which salmon is bestAtlantic, Alaskan, or sockeye? Or what about wild versus farm-raised? Here are a few things to keep in mind the next time you’re stumped in the seafood aisle. View slideshow
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Good Fats, Bad Fats: How to Choose
It's recommended that 20% to 30% of the calories adults consume come from fat, but do you know the difference between the good and the bad? Fat doesn't have to be a scary word, so long as you're getting enough of the right kind. View slideshow
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10 Easy Food Swaps Cut Cholesterol, Not Taste
A low-cholesterol diet doesn't have to be all oat bran and tofu. Here are some simple substitutions that you can make to the food you already eat to help fight cholesterol painlessly. View slideshow
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10 Heart-Healthy Dessert Recipes
Sweets aren’t off-limits if you’re aiming for a heart-healthy diet, just choose carefully. High fat content (particularly saturated fat) can cause higher cholesterol levels in the body, but these 10 desserts are both low-fat and tasty! View slideshow
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Heart-Healthy Recipe of the Day
Eating a heart-healthy diet doesn’t mean the end of taste. You'll never feel deprived of real foodjust check out this collection of delicious low-cholesterol recipes. You’ll forget you’re eating for your health! View calendar
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5 Cholesterol Myths and Facts
Think you know it all? Check out common myths about high cholesterol, who’s most likely to have it, what types of food can cause it, and whysometimescholesterol isn’t a bad word. View slideshow
Dietary Fats Can Helpor HarmYour 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 oilthey're all fatty, and they can all help keep you alive.
But other fats act as napalm to the heart. Read More
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20 Low-Cholesterol Meals
Eating a healthy diet doesn't mean the end of tastejust check out this collection of delicious low-cholesterol recipes. You'll forget you're eating for your health! View slideshow
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7 Causes of High Cholesterol
High cholesterol comes from a variety of sources, including your family history and what you eat. Here is a visual journey through the most common causes. View slideshow
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10 Best Foods for Your Heart
From breakfast to dinner (and snacks in between) you're entire day can be heart-healthy! A good-for-your-ticker diet doesn't have to be bland or boring, as we show you here with these heart-y foods that will leave you satisfied. View slideshow
The TLC Diet and Other Cholesterol-Reducing Strategies
Eating to Control Cholesterol Levels
The Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) Diet for Heart Disease
The TLC Diet for Cholesterol: A Sample Menu
Lifestyle Changes That Complement the TLC Diet
10 Easy Food Swaps Cut Cholesterol, Not Taste
Video: Controlling Cholesterol With Statins and Diet
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The Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) Diet for Heart Disease
The TLC Diet for Cholesterol: A Sample Menu
Lifestyle Changes That Complement the TLC Diet
10 Easy Food Swaps Cut Cholesterol, Not Taste
Video: Controlling Cholesterol With Statins and Diet
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In Real Life, Heart-Healthy Diets Can Be Work
How real people learned to change their long-standing habits
Paul Tasner, 62, of Greenbrae, Calif., has cholesterol" that zoomed up to 298 five years ago. "That's comparable to having little bits of cheese floating around in your arteries," he says. On a fat-restricted vegetarian diet, he was able get it down slightly. But he has a hard time resisting cravings for junk food, especially when he is traveling on business.
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