Heart Healthy Diet

Patients are often asking us how to eat right and improve their diet. Well, the government (the National Institute of Health, really) actually provides some great answers. The NIH website offers a lot of great information about how to keep you and your family healthy and this is juts one part of it.

Here are some highlights:

Heart Healthy Diet Guidelines -- you should eat:

• 8-10% of the day's total calories from saturated fat.
• 30 percent or less of the day’s total calories from fat.
• Less than 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol a day.
• Limit sodium intake to 2400 milligrams a day.
• Just enough calories to achieve or maintain a healthy weight and reduce your blood cholesterol level. (Ask your doctor or registered dietitian what is a reasonable calorie level for you.)

For the whole article, go here:
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/cgi-bin/chd1/step1intro.cgi

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