What diet can I follow to improve my heart health?
A heart-healthy diet doesn’t mean cutting out food groups—it’s about balance. Dr Ravi Assomull shares how to adjust your nutrition to reduce processed foods, control salt and sugar intake, and improve macronutrient ratios for better cardiovascular health.
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Transcript
The diet you should follow really depends on what your concerns are with respect to your heart health. In general, a healthy diet that really works for most people and most conditions is a diet that is free of processed food altogether. Low in salt, low in refined carbohydrates, has a healthy balance of macronutrients.
I would not recommend for a moment cutting out carbohydrates in totality, cutting out fat in totality; it just doesn't work, you need a little bit of everything. The key thing here is to make sure that you're getting a good balance, and generally in our diet, we tend to have too much carbohydrate and not enough protein, and I would look to readdress that imbalance.
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