10 Foods That Are Good for Your Heart

[ginkgo]

10 foods that are good for your heart is a new article in photos by The Huffington Post. What do you think of these foods as far as heart health? Are you surprised that there are no meats on it.

Heart Health: 10 Foods That Are Good For Your Heart (PHOTOS)

Start your day with a steaming bowl of oats, which are full of omega-3 fatty acids, folate, and potassium. This fiber-rich superfood can lower levels of LDL (or bad) cholesterol and help keep arteries clear.

I am aware of a lot of fiber in oatmeal but not omega-3. Here is a webpage with a list of good food sources of omega-3 fatty acids and oatmeal is not among them. Note that on this page tuna is a good source of it, cabbage and broccoli are very good sources of it and walnuts are an excellent source of it.

[stanmrak]

Vegetarian omega 3 foods include many seeds and nuts which are rich in the omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA). However, your body has to convert ALA into EPA and DHA, the fatty acids that are most beneficial to your health. This is a relatively inefficient process (about 15% gets absorbed), so you will not get all the benefits from vegetarian sources as you would get by consuming omega 3 fatty acids from fish.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by stanmrak

Vegetarian omega 3 foods include many seeds and nuts which are rich in the omega 3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA). However, your body has to convert ALA into EPA and DHA, the fatty acids that are most beneficial to your health. This is a relatively inefficient process (about 15% gets absorbed), so you will not get all the benefits from vegetarian sources as you would get by consuming omega 3 fatty acids from fish.

The article said (except for their mistake that I pointed out) that you should get omega-3 from salmon. You can also get it from the same place that the fish get it-- from eating algae like spirulina or the other edible blue-green algae from Klammoth Lake. Humans are the most advanced form of life on the planet and the blue green algae is the first or most primitive form of life on the planet.

[Andrew Brunelle]

That article is pretty much common sense. The only food on there I disagree with is soy, because it causes all sorts of other problems. Even if it is good for your heart, unfermented soy contains anti-nutrients and pseudo-estrogen. And it is mostly genetically modified, which is even more terrible. There is so much about nutrition that most people simply do not know, which is why it is imperative to educate people on what a truly healthy food and an unhealthy food is.

The FDA are criminals and take bribes from whoever has enough money to persuade them. If you go back to pastoral and agrarian societies, that is most likely the way we should be eating.

[Dave Plaza]

I didn't see Cayenne pepper on that list

[Brutha]

Humans are the most advanced form of life on the planet and the blue green algae is the first or most primitive form of life on the planet.

Actually algae and bacteria are much more optimized for their environment than humans because they went through much more generations.

The algae can produce it's own omega 3 while we can't. Who's more advanced?

[secrets0stolen]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Actually algae and bacteria are much more optimized for their environment than humans because they went through much more generations.

The algae can produce it's own omega 3 while we can't. Who's more advanced?

Rat's can produce they're own vitamin C, while we can't.

[Thanatopsis]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Actually algae and bacteria are much more optimized for their environment than humans because they went through much more generations.

The algae can produce it's own omega 3 while we can't. Who's more advanced?

I like your posts because if nothing else there's usually an implicit "what now?!". Keeps everyone honest

Yes, we humans are plunderers of nature's innovation, although we are pretty neat machines ourselves.

I'll add sugar beets for their high level of trimethylglycine, a chemical that is an osmotic stabilizer in the intravascular environment and methyl-group donor and therefore antagonistic to homocysteine (a chemical that while not proven to be causative is strongly linked to cardiovascular disease).

[stanmrak]

Originally Posted by secrets0stolen

Rat's can produce they're own vitamin C, while we can't.

Hey -- aren't there lizards of some sort than can regenerate limbs, too? Humans are clearly less evolved.

[Thanatopsis]

Originally Posted by stanmrak

Hey -- aren't there lizards of some sort than can regenerate limbs, too? Humans are clearly less evolved.

I think you're talking about the salamander.

Less evolved? What do you mean by that?

If a salamander loses its limb, it will likely perish if it survives (from a prey/predator standpoint). If a human loses its limb and survives the ordeal, it can get along without regenerating it. What shifts the balance? Our nervous system.

Yes it would be great if humans could regenerate their limbs, but the sum total of a salamander's adaptations means that the animal is a "more evolved" creature?

That is why you have to be specific if you care enough to get to the nitty-gritty of your argument.

[stevojs]

I'm a little surprised that garlic isn't included in the list. There is a heap of research on the benefits of garlic for improving heart health including:

• Improving HDL/LDL ratios
• Lowering cholesterol (even though the heart disease/ cholesterol relationship is questionable)
• Lowering triglycerides
• Decreasing blood pressure
• Reducing blood viscosity
• Blood-thinning effects

[danthony]

Baked fish and foods rich in Omegas like advocado are great and excellent for heart and brain health.