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Heart disease: Eating a heart-healthy diet
Why is it important to choose a heart-healthy diet?
Making good food choices can have a big impact on your health. Eating a heart-healthy diet can help you to:
- Lower your blood pressure.
- Lower your cholesterol.
- Reach and stay at a healthy weight.
- Control or prevent diabetes.
- Improve your overall health.
A heart-healthy diet is not just for people with existing health problems. It is good for anyone. (But children younger than 2 should drink 2% or whole milk, not 1% or skim milk. At age 2, they can switch to low-fat or nonfat dairy products.) Learning heart-healthy eating habits now can help prevent heart disease in years to come.
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I need to follow a heart-healthy diet, but my spouse and kids don't.
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A heart-healthy diet is good for anyone. If your spouse and children don't have heart disease, learning heart-healthy eating habits now can help prevent heart disease in years to come. Changing the way your family eats could be one of the best things you ever do for them.
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A heart-healthy diet is good for anyone. If your spouse and children don't have heart disease, learning heart-healthy eating habits now can help prevent heart disease in years to come. Changing the way your family eats could be one of the best things you ever do for them.
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Heart disease: Eating a heart-healthy diet
Last Updated:
May 29, 2008- Author:
- Robin Parks, MS
- Medical Review:
- Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine
Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD - Cardiology
Ruth Schneider, MPH, RD - Diet and Nutrition
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