Combating Heart Disease with Food

For the next few articles, I'm going to go over 4 diet-related health problems: heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes. Here are some healthful and helpful tips in fighting against them with your everyday diet!

For the first one, I'm going to focus on heart disease. Some uncontrollable factors that might put you at risk are a family history of heart disease, and being over the age of 55. However, there are some factors that you can control to help fight off the risk of heart disease.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. for both men and women. 1 in 4 deaths occur from heart disease.

So, what can you do to lower your risk?
This helpful image from HopeHeart.org sheds some light on the subject.


Basically, eat a healthy diet and exercise. Don't smoke or drink alcohol excessively as well and that will lower your risk drastically.

"But, what are some heart-healthy foods???? When people say, 'Eat healthy!', they never tell me what that actually means!" I'm glad you asked, blog-reader! Here's a list of 20 heart-healthy foods for you: