Vegetables and fruit useful for the heart
What vegetables and fruits are good for the heart?
The heart asks not only the rhythm, but also the duration of our life.
And therefore requires special care.
It is believed that mainly men are affected by cardiovascular diseases, and they overtake women in old age, but this is not so. Heart ailments “change” sexual preferences and become younger.
One of the main risk factors here is bad habits, including eating habits. The abundance of oily, cholesterol-rich food leads to its deposition in the walls of arteries in the form of cholesterol plaques.
They narrow the lumen of the coronary vessels that feed the myocardium, and often cause heart attacks leading to a heart attack. But the diets that cute ladies are so fond of! There is an opinion that losing weight is good for the heart: the lower the weight, the easier it will be for him to do his job.
But the trouble is that as an actively working body it needs a strengthened diet, and therefore inevitably suffers when we are hungry. Loses weight, weakens, reminding of himself at the slightest load with shortness of breath, interruptions, rapid pulse.
Your fiery motor needs a special diet, made up of products that strengthen the heart muscle! So, what to include in the diet?
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Cherries and cherries.
They contain a kind of energy doping for myocardial cells: glucose (nourishes the heart muscle), pectins (remove cholesterol from the body and protect the arteries from atherosclerosis), malic acid (dissolves harmful deposits on the walls of blood vessels) and tandem angioprotectors (biologically active substances that protect the heart -vascular system from damage). Moreover, there are coumarins in cherries and cherries - special compounds that can significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. In summer, eat berries fresh, the rest of the time - frozen, in the form of compote and jam.
Apricots.
Fresh and dried, they are especially useful in diseases of the cardiovascular system due to the high content of potassium and vitamins. If you have a sick heart or you have suffered a myocardial infarction, be sure to eat every day one fresh apricot or 2-3 pieces of dried apricots or apricots (pre-soak them in water).
Strawberries.
Her scarlet "droplets" are extremely rich in "vitality" - ascorbic acid (vitamin C). A handful of strawberries per day will serve as a good prophylaxis against atherosclerosis, benefit the heart, relieve high blood pressure, as it removes salts and excess fluid from the body. At leisure, please the household with an unusual salad - Cut the strawberry (strawberry) berries in half, pitted apricots into 4 parts, cut the apples into cubes. Mix everything, put in a vase, pour natural yogurt. Sprinkle with ground almonds. Garnish with small “beads” of wild strawberries.
Red grapes and juice from it.
Grapes do not block the coronary vessels that feed the heart with clots. It reduces the activity of platelets - platelets by 75%. While some blood thinners used for this purpose are only 50% effective. But remember about the measure: with diabetes and a tendency to excess weight, it is still not worthwhile to get involved in amber clusters. They have too much sugar. Olives. It is proved that these biblical fruits (as well as the oil from them) reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol, help the absorption of fats, protect the heart and blood vessels from heart attack and stroke. Add salat olives, use olive oil to prepare various dishes, just keep in mind: cold-pressed oil is considered the most useful - extra virgin should be written on the label.
Citrus.
How are they useful? Yes, a lot of things! For example, the pulp of oranges contains pectin and other natural polysaccharides that bind heavy metal ions and radioactive elements. Entered into the body with air and food, they do not add health to the heart. Norm - 2-3 oranges per day (if you are not allergic to citrus fruits).
All of the above applies to mandarins. Moreover, they are rich in natural sugars and mineral substances, which improve the metabolism, and the heart muscle gets rid of the excessive load.
Special honor - grapefruit! Grapefruits owe their slightly bitter, but refreshing taste to naringin. This biologically active compound normalizes blood pressure, helps reduce the risk of heart attack and tones the body as a whole. □
Walnuts.
American researchers argue that if you eat the kernels daily from 1-2 walnuts, you can extend life to 5 years. It turns out that these nuts contain substances that protect the heart and blood vessels from the harmful effects of cholesterol. Do you want to strengthen the effect? Chop the walnuts and mix with the same amount of honey.
Eat such a dessert for 1 chayn. spoon once a day after a meal.
Not only fruits and vegetables are good for the heart ...
Fish, especially marine (herring, cod, mackerel, salmon, pollock, flounder capelin haddock halibut). Seafood is a valuable source of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. They increase the elasticity of blood vessels and prevent the formation of blood clots. The “Greenland phenomenon” also testifies in favor of seafood: despite the abundance of animal fat and protein in the national diet, cardiovascular diseases are extremely rare among the coastal inhabitants of this country.
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Milk and sour-milk products.
American scientists have watched emigrants from Japan for more than 20 years: it is known that visitors to a cardiac catastrophe happen earlier and in a more severe form than the indigenous population. Subjects, who daily drank 2 a glass of low-fat milk, suffered from diseases of the cardiovascular system in 2 times less often than those who ignored milk.
Do not tolerate milk? Pay attention to yogurt, yogurt, ryazhenka, natural yogurt (without sugar and other additives). They are no less useful.
Bitter chocolate.
The substances that it contains, strengthen the cardiovascular system, improve blood flow to the brain, prevent the blockage of arterial valves, relieve nervous tension. However, all of the above applies only to bitter tiles, which contain at least 75% of cocoa. But because of the excess sugar and fat per day, it is recommended to eat no more than 20-30 of this sweet treat ...
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