Healthy Heart Foods
To keep your heart healthy you need to concentrate on your heart healthy diet. Your diet should be comprised of fresh fruits, veggies, whole grain food products etc. Make sure that you are eliminating saturated fats from your diet. You can add lean protein along with low fat dairy product within your diet.
- Instead of having high fat dairy products, go for skimmed milk as well as cheese make with 2% of skimmed milk, sour cream (fat free), low fat yoghurt etc. If you like to have eggs in your breakfast then purchase some egg whites for your complete healthy breakfast.
- When you are unable to get fresh then don’t hesitate to purchase frozen food products, which are full of nutrients with perfect flavor. You can also go for canned option where sodium part is very less. While you are going for canned option, make sure you are purchasing branded products with the minimum quantities of sodium.
- Make sure that you are purchasing fresh food items with required nutrients, so that you can prepare some tasty as well as healthy snacks with some seasoning.
- While purchasing bread, make sure that you are buying the whole grain bread. Whole grain, pita, cereal, tortillas, oats etc also provides you some quality fiber & keep your heart healthy.
- Try to avoid saturated fat containing lamb, beef, pork etc. Try to get some leans portion of meat & also focus on the amount you are having. It will supply your protein requirement without having extra fat.
- To reduce you fat consumption get some vegetable cooking oil spray instead of having oil. For dressing or dips purchase some low fat products to maintain your healthy heart.
- To minimize your saturated fat consumption get some protein containing peas along with nuts, lentils, beans etc instead of having meat.
- In your grocery list, make sure that you have added omega 3 fatty acid containing fish like- mackerel, salmon, tuna etc. It will help you to keep your heart healthy. Instead of frying food try to go for grilling or baking or steaming etc.