Foods for the Heart

Healthy Foods 1 Minute

The heart if the most hardworking organ in the human body. It beats rhythmically, unceasingly, without stopping, without tiring from birth to death when it is kept in good health.

This capacity of the myocardium (heart muscle) to work without rest is one of the awesome facts of the animal and human physiology. In actual fact the heart rests at the brief moment when it is receiving blood and nutrients during relaxation.

DISEASES OF THE HEART

  • Angina pectoris
  • Arrhythmia
  • Cardiac failure
  • Myocadiac infarction

FOODS FOR THE HEART

  1. Eat wholesome fresh fruits such as banana, cherimoya (brother heart, custard apple, Annona, Cheri mole), Sugar apple (ghiste), grape, peach, mango, grapefruit in one day.
  2. Eat nuts such as groundnuts, cashew nuts, walnuts, peanuts daily
  3. Eat at least one fresh vegetable salad dressed with simsim oil or olive oil or any seed oil
  4. Eat a minimum of two or three portions of legume; beans, peas a week.
  5. Eat whole-grain meal or bread, pasta. Grains like wheat, rice, rye, millet, sorghum barley, regularly.
  6. Eat plenty of vegetables like onion, garlic, carrot, broccoli, tomatoes, pumpkins, spinach, mushrooms, green and red pepper.
  7. Avoid tobacco, coffee, excessive alcohol.
  8. Reduce salt, sugar consumption

Published by Sr Felicity Therese Drakuru

Hello, I am Sr. Felicity Therese Drakuru, a retired teacher turned writer. I live in Uganda, my home country. I am a Religious Sister belonging to the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu of the Archdiocese of Gulu. I write about the things I like to talk about. My passion is; the most favorable health for me and others. I have developed this passion because of the preventable ill-health I have seen in myself and in others. Some years ago I was diagnosed of hypertension and type 2 diabetes. I know that these diseases come about mainly due to lifestyle more that from inbuilt physiological weaknesses. I have learned that these diseases and a host of others are preventable or curable by what we eat. I have also experienced this due to my healthy foods which have controlled my high blood pressure and blood sugar to normal levels. I want to share this truth with anyone out there and I would like everyone to enjoy optimum health in order to serve the world better. The foods I will write about are mainly plant based foods. In recent years nutritional research has concentrated on the effect of diet on the prevention and treatment of circulatory disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity since these are the most frequent. Research has shown that the abundant consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grain cereals and nuts prevents the initiation of certain cancers or circulatory complications. Through massive research I am in position to tell others which foods and plants can lead to the best health status and possibly prevent, cure or reduce the effects of which diseases.

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