What a Heart-Healthy Diet Looks Like....You've learned the basics of a healthy diet, but how do you put it all into practice? Find out how to create weekly meals with the top heart-healthy foods.

You know it’s important to eat heart-healthy foods for better health, but do you know just how beneficial it can be? Something as simple as eating a healthy diet can help reduce your risk of heart disease and other health problems, including obesity and cancer.

Most people know in general what foods are healthy and which ones aren’t. But translating this information into three meals a day, seven days a week can take some practice. Luckily, it can be easy to get the benefits of a healthy diet.

Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are essential to protect your heart. “Both are valuable sources of soluble fiber, which helps keep bad cholesterol levels at bay,” says Hannah El-Amin, RD, CDE, a nutritionist with Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and owner of Nutrition That Fits, a nutrition counseling service. “Soluble fiber functions as a cholesterol magnet, cleaning artery-clogging low-density lipoprotein [LDL], or the ‘bad’ cholesterol, out of the blood.” read more.....