heart health

DASH diet and Salmon and Farro Sheet Pan Dinner

If you’ve been hear awhile, you know that I don’t encourage “dieting” – following a restrictive diet plan for a specified period of time until you achieve a health goal. Why? Because that isn’t sustainable. I want you to create a “diet” for your life, a plan you can follow all the time. Then when …

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Wine and Heart Health

Today is National Drink Wine Day. Drinking wine has often been reported to have cardioprotective effects – meaning it helps prevent heart disease. The question is, what is the science behind that and does it hold up? The question began with something called the French Paradox, which has been seen in some other European countries …

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Is dark chocolate good for your heart?

February is American Heart Month, with Wear Red Day (a day for increasing awareness of heart disease in women) this Friday, February 5, 2021. Coincidentally, today is Dark Chocolate Day. I thought this was a good day to discuss any potential health benefits from dark chocolate as it often gets billed as a “superfood” or …

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Go Red for Women

Today is National Wear Red Day, part of American Heart Month and the Go Red for Women Campaign. The purpose is to raise awareness of cardiac disease risk factors and prevention, especially in women. More women die from cardiovascular disease in the United States than all kinds of cancer combined. I think heart disease is …

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The skinny on fats

Earlier this year, a study challenged the long-held belief that eating a diet low in saturated fats was bad. Combining the results of many previous studies, it concluded that low consumption of saturated fats and high consumption of polyunsaturated fats (the current diet recommended by the American Heart Association) did not actually lower risk of …

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Fish Friday

In a recent post, I recommended fish as a heart-healthy substitute for beef and pork.  Fish is a great source of protein that is low in saturated fat but it is also high in omega-3 fatty acids.  Eating a diet higher in omega-3 fatty acids can reduce inflammation, including the inflammation that is associated with …

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