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5 Awesome Ways to Eat Avocados — and Cut Your Cholesterol
It’s amazing what you can do with an avocado. And what an avocado can do for you.
This buttery-tasting fruit slashed the bad cholesterol in obese and overweight individuals, found a small study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Doctors placed all participants on three healthy diets to lower cholesterol. While all three diets reduced cholesterol, the participants who ate a Haas avocado daily reaped the biggest benefits. And if you lower your cholesterol, you cut your risk of having a stroke.
Cocoa makes the heart grow fonder
Cocoa makes the heart grow fonder
Chocolate and hearts go hand in hand, and not just on Valentine’s Day. A little chocolate every day will keep your heart beating for years to come.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Health & Healing Heart/Cholesterol/Blood Pressure
Lower blood pressure and cholesterol with everyday fruit
Grapes are a handy, lip-smacking snack you can buy pretty much year-round. And you’ll want to do just that, not only for their mouth appeal, but because adding them to your diet can help you lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Brain & Memory Cancer Diabetes & High Blood Pressure Health & Healing Heart/Cholesterol/Blood Pressure
5 foods that keep blood pressure down
Your life may depend on your blood pressure. Hypertension — high blood pressure (HPB) — hits around 50 million people in the United States and a billion worldwide. It can trigger coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, and kidney disease. HPB causes two-thirds of the strokes, almost half of all heart attacks, and is the biggest risk factor for death in the world.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Healthy Living Heart/Cholesterol/Blood Pressure
