"Want to Get the Most Out of Your Cardiac Diet?
Try These Super Powerful Foods!”

Do you have high blood pressure, diabetes, or any cardiovascular related disease? Millions of Americans do. Obesity is the number one cause of cardiovascular disease. The following statistics will absolutely convince you that a cardiac diet is what this nation needs.

Did you know that 64% of people in the United States are overweight? 27% of Americans are classified as obese. Obesity is the cause of 325,000 deaths per year!

Denial is Deadly

So why do we have an obesity epidemic on our hands? What happened to the war against fat? There is no “war” against fat and if there is, we are sorely losing the battle. Why? We live in a capitalist country. No one wants to admit that we need a food plan akin to a cardiac diet. What exactly would a cardiac diet look like?

Back to Nature

In order for your heart to stay healthy, you need to feed it heart healthy foods. Heart healthy foods will reduce high blood pressure, cure diabetes, and cure all ailments without the use of drugs. But the billion dollar food, drug and weight loss industries will not tell you this. A cardiac diet would be similar to a Mediterranean diet. A diet rich in antioxidant filled vegetables, fruits, lean proteins such as beans, salmon, low-fat dairy products, and olive oil would be the perfect cardiac diet. In fact, any high fiber, low fat diet would be considered a cardiac diet.

Super Powerful Foods

If you ask 10 different nutritionists to tell you what the most powerful foods are in terms of cardiovascular benefits, many of their answers would overlap. Why? Every food provides something different. Certain foods are rich in fiber while others are a better source of protein.

Some may be a great source of protein, but lack disease-fighting phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals. The best cardiac diet provides a variety of foods.

Fish and Fish Oil

Wild salmon, herring, and sardines are especially recommended because these fish provide the most heart healthy Omeg-3 nutrients. Eating fish not only helps you lose weight because it is naturally low in calories, it helps reduce your risk of stroke, diabetes, arthritis, cancer and heart disease.

Also, fish is considered a “brain” food. A word of caution though – avoid fish with high mercurial content such as shark, mackerel, albacore tuna (chunk light tuna is fine to eat), tilefish and sword fish.

Garlic

Yes, the “stinking rose”. Many people shy away from garlic because of the potential bad breath that ensues. However, garlic has been proven to lower cholesterol and triglycerides (your triglycerides are your blood fat levels). By lowering your cholesterol, garlic helps prevent clogged arteries.

Did you know that the National Cancer Institute listed garlic as a potential cancer-preventive food? There are lots of ways to eat garlic that will appease your appetite. You can bake whole garlic cloves and make a dish called chicken with 40 garlic cloves. That dish is not only lip smacking good, but the garlic helps detoxify your body of heavy metals like mercury.

Garlic also boosts your resistance to colds and infections. Here’s a tip for getting rid of garlic breath – chew on parsley sprigs.

Cabbage

Cabbage (and its cousins broccoli and bok choy) stimulates the immune system and is known to kill bacteria and viruses. It is considered a natural blood purifier. Eating red cabbage will give you the same high powered antioxidants as the super power food blueberries!

If you’re looking for a food plan that contains the fountain of youth, is rich in antioxidants, and is cardiovascular friendly, then be sure to add these super powerful foods to your cardiac diet.