Heart health food tips can go a long way in improving your overall coronary health. If you want to improve the health of your heart and your over all health and well being as well, the following heart health food tips are going to come in handy:
Take the time and make the effort to establish a relationship or a rapport with the owner and the servers at your favorite restaurants. What this will do is make it easier in the future for you to negotiate menu items, asking for lower fat and lower salt versions of your favorite dishes. This is extremely worthwhile if you eat out a lot, or have favorite dishes that can be made healthier in some way.
When it comes to serving dessert, you should be choosing fruit ice, fresh fruit, gelatin, sherbet and angel food cake. All of these dessert items are excellent alternatives to snack that are laden with cream and fat. You won't notice the difference in sweetness or flavor, but you'll certainly notice the health benefits boost.
Some people that are dealing with congestive heart failure are required to limit the amount of liquid that they are taking in every single day. Many doctors are recommending that people drink eight glasses or less. It is important for you to consult your own personal physician to determine what is ideal for you because this could play a large role in improving or maintaining good heart health.
Avoid frying foods when you are preparing them because it adds fat, grease and oil. Rather than fry your foods, you should be baking them, broiling them, roasting them, boiling them or even microwaving them in order to result in less fat and far fewer calories than if you were to fry them in oil or butter.
Make the investment in a non stick frying pan. This way, you can use very little butter or oil, as these things add cholesterol and fat to the food during the preparation process. Despite cutting down on the presence of oil and butter in the pan and on the food, your food will not stick to the pan.
If you are working with a cooking recipe and it calls for eggs and butter, what you may want to try is substituting in polyunsaturated oil or margarine in place of butter. You can substitute 1 egg white and 2 teaspoons of unsaturated oil in place of a single egg, or 1 tablespoon of polyunsaturated margarine or ¾ tablespoon of unsaturated oil in place of a tablespoon worth of butter.
When you are eating out, always ask if you can substitute in healthy alternatives-- such as unsalted vegetables or a plain baked potato rather than high sodium and high fat side dishes such a onion rings or French fries in order to cut calories, fat and sodium all at once.
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Originally posted 2009-09-04 03:43:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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