Keep a low fat diet and you keep your heart healthy

The American Heart Association could not sayrecommends a diet that brings less than 30% of
exactly how much fat is good for us and also didtotal calories in fat and less than 300 milligrams of
not recommend a very low fat diet declaring thatcholesterol daily. People should also keep a count
this could only increase the levels of triglyceridesof the salt and sugar intake, being allowed to
and lower the level of HDL while the 'bad'consume about 2,400 milligrams of salt a day.
cholesterol LDL would not be significantly lowered.In order to keep you heart healthy you should
This does not mean that a low fat diet is notfollow some recommended steps in you diet. Try
good for us but nutritionists prefer to add to thisto avoid saturated fat foods which increase the
diet fruits and vegetables to have a maximumlevel of cholesterol in blood and replace them with
effect upon the bad level of cholesterol.monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats
When keeping a low fat diet people shouldlike olive and rapeseed oil, nuts and oily fish, corn
consider eliminating the salt and sugar from it tooand soy oil.
and should try instead to bring more minerals andKeep an active lifestyle, exercise 30 minutes daily
nutrients to the body.and keep your weight under control. Eat more
This low fat diet is not suitable for everyone andfruits and vegetables, wholegrain cereals and
children and elders should talk to a physicianpasta then cookies, sweets and burgers.
before adopting the diet. Those who suffer ofTry to give up smoking as it can give you cancer
chronic disease and the pregnant women shouldand emphysema and heart diseases. This
also consider a previous discussion with themeasure must be taken especially by those who
nutritionist to see if this diet is suitable for themhave already had a heart attack and other heart
or not.diseases. Avoid stress as much as you can and
Nowadays, the American Heart Associationgo for periodically checkups at the doctor.