October 1, 2009
// Eating wholegrain, wholemeal and other high fibre foods such as vegetables and fruits can significantly lower your risk of developing heart disease and stroke. The beneficial effects on heart health have even been compared with taking statin drugs. There has previously been more evidence for the benefits of dietary fibre relative to heart disease ...
August 30, 2009
@import url(www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); Custom Search ‘Home cooked’ – the expression carries with it a reassuring tag of healthiness and goodness doesn’t it ? We’ve all gotten used to the warnings about fast food and take out food being loaded with high levels of saturated fat and LDL cholesterol that is clogging up our arteries, and giving ...
April 7, 2009
By Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor. The evidence that garlic and onions – considered to be two of the most highly pungent vegetables goes back for centuries. In Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, both vegetables were used to treat heart disease. Clay models of garlic bulbs were found in an Egyptian tomb dated from 3750 BC! ...
March 29, 2009
@import url(www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); Custom Search Welcome to the heart friendly egg and bacon academy ! Bacon’s popularity with the British people is never ending. Now that the British Heart Foundation have given eggs the go ahead too, we have given the great English Breakfast sandwich a new makeover, and it is now much more heart friendly. Why is ...