Get Your B's to Prevent Heart Disease
By Kelley Herring
How would you like to cut your risk of heart attack and stroke simply by eating healthy and delicious foods, such as tuna, chicken, even beef?
It's true! Foods rich in three B vitamins - folate, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 - help to reduce levels of heart-harming homocysteine in the blood.
Homocysteine is an amino acid found naturally in the body. However, high levels of this compound increase the risk of a number of health problems, including heart disease.
First, it may contribute to the gradual buildup of fatty substances in the arteries (a process called atherosclerosis). Second, it makes blood more likely to clot, which increases the risk for a heart attack or stroke. And third, it makes blood vessels less flexible - and so less able to widen to increase blood flow.
Ask your doctor about getting your levels of homocysteine checked with a simple blood test. And boost your intake of B vitamins with these foods:
. Sources of Folate: lentils, chick peas, asparagus, spinach, black beans, kidney beans
. Sources of Vitamin B6: tuna, bananas, chicken breast, turkey, salmon, cod, snapper, beef, halibut
. Sources of Vitamin B12: snapper, salmon, beef, lamb, scallops, shrimp, halibut, yogurt
[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet (http://www.healinggourmet.com/), and is editor-in-chief of the Healing Gourmet book series.]
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Word to the Wise: Doughty
"Doughty" (DOW-tee) is another way to say "brave." The word was derived from the Middle English for "worthy."
Example (as used by Tom Blackburn in a review of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore): "For several years, he [Stalin] ran a team of bank robbers that included some doughty gun molls who shot it out with the guards of stage coaches carrying money."
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These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #2245, 01-07-08], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
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For all your Real Estate Interests look at The New Real Estate Source here.
How would you like to cut your risk of heart attack and stroke simply by eating healthy and delicious foods, such as tuna, chicken, even beef?
It's true! Foods rich in three B vitamins - folate, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 - help to reduce levels of heart-harming homocysteine in the blood.
Homocysteine is an amino acid found naturally in the body. However, high levels of this compound increase the risk of a number of health problems, including heart disease.
First, it may contribute to the gradual buildup of fatty substances in the arteries (a process called atherosclerosis). Second, it makes blood more likely to clot, which increases the risk for a heart attack or stroke. And third, it makes blood vessels less flexible - and so less able to widen to increase blood flow.
Ask your doctor about getting your levels of homocysteine checked with a simple blood test. And boost your intake of B vitamins with these foods:
. Sources of Folate: lentils, chick peas, asparagus, spinach, black beans, kidney beans
. Sources of Vitamin B6: tuna, bananas, chicken breast, turkey, salmon, cod, snapper, beef, halibut
. Sources of Vitamin B12: snapper, salmon, beef, lamb, scallops, shrimp, halibut, yogurt
[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet (http://www.healinggourmet.com/), and is editor-in-chief of the Healing Gourmet book series.]
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Doughty
"Doughty" (DOW-tee) is another way to say "brave." The word was derived from the Middle English for "worthy."
Example (as used by Tom Blackburn in a review of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore): "For several years, he [Stalin] ran a team of bank robbers that included some doughty gun molls who shot it out with the guards of stage coaches carrying money."
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These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #2245, 01-07-08], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
__________________________________________________
For all your Real Estate Interests look at The New Real Estate Source here.
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