Health & Fitness

Improve Your Heart-Health With These Foods

It's important we eat a healthy diet to avoid diseases. By incorporating these foods into your diet you can improve your heart health.

A study published in the British Medical Journal in 2012 concluded that getting regular exercise, eating healthy and avoiding bad habits, like smoking, could help elderly women live up to five years longer and elderly men up to six years longer. Yet, on a daily basis individuals are still making the decision to eat unhealthy and live sedentary lifestyles. It’s often that they decide to reach for the more savory option than the healthy one.

What we eat directly corresponds with our overall health and the likelihood of developing certain diseases. One of the most common being cardiovascular disease, also known as heart disease. Did you know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States? Therefore, it’s important you take precautions with your health to make sure you don’t develop heart disease or any other of the many diseases developed by eating a poor diet. Eating specific foods everyday can help you to improve your heart health, and they aren’t half bad either. Make sure you’re incorporating these delicious heart-healthy foods into your diet.

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