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Heart Disease: Eating 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 all healthy adults and children older than age 2. 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.
TrueA 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.
FalseA 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
| By: | Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: May 1, 2010 |
| Medical Review: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE - Certified Diabetes Educator | |
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