Obesity

Fabulous Foods for a Healthy Heart

Incorporate these foods into your diet to help reduce your risk of heart disease and promote cardiovascular health.

Oatmeal: A steaming bowl of oatmeal is the perfect way to start your day. Oats are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, potassium, folate, niacin, calcium, and soluble fiber. For added heart health, top your oatmeal with ground flaxseed and blueberries.

For a sweet treat that’s also good for your heart, bake some delicious oatmeal raisin cookies. Keep Reading →

Move Slowly Towards a Healthy Vegetarian Diet: Best New Year’s Resolution

January is a time of the year when people think about shedding weight and making resolutions to get healthy. However well-meaning, most people who make such resolutions don’t stick with their "new" healthy commitments for very long. For many, it’s too difficult to keep up. Others grow impatient when the results they seek take longer than they want. Unfortunately, becoming truly healthy is not a quick fix. We need to go beyond New Year's resolutions. Keep Reading →

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The Fight Against Heart Disease: A Vegetarian Solution

Time and again we see news reports on studies that remind us of the health benefits of a vegetarian diet in reversing heart disease. One such study was published this month in the World Health Organization’s weekly journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

According to the study, nearly 400,000 people are expected to die of coronary heart disease in the United States in 2010.¹ “Half of these deaths could be avoided if people ate healthier food and stopped smoking,” says the study’s co-author, Dr. Simon Capewell, from the University of Liverpool in England. Keep Reading →