Coronary Artery Disease Video

Help prevent coronary artery disease with the right foods. Learn how to adjust your diet to fit your specific health and nutrition needs in this video on grocery shopping.

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Eat leafy green vegetables
Increase unsaturated fats
Fish is a good anti-inflammatory
Base diet around whole grains

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Mary Hondros graduated from University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics. She currently works as a nutritionist for New Hanover County Schools in North Carolina. Her main focus is to teach children to improve nutritional habits.

MARY HONDROS: Now, I'm going to talk a little bit about coronary artery disease. This is just another word for heart disease and this is what happens when the coronary arteries, which are the ones that provide blood flow to your heart, get blocked. What happens when you eat a lot of saturated fats, transfats, cholesterol, and sodium, is that these arteries become clogged with plaques from those food. And it causes--eventually causes a blockage which can lead to heart disease or heart attack of some sort. So, foods that are high in saturated fat and transfats are things like animal meats and processed pre-packaged snacks. So it's important if you're trying to avoid coronary artery disease that you stick to a healthy diet. You stick to eating whole grains, which are high in fiber and lower your cholesterol. And that you stick to minimizing the amount of animal meat and whole milks and whole dairy products that you eat. So, if you're trying to avoid coronary artery disease later in life, some of the things that you can do are, number 1, eat lots of leafy green vegetables, vary your colors, dark green would be things like spinach, deep oranges, things like acorn, squash, and yellows, things like yellow peppers. Also, keep in mind to increase your unsaturated fats, which are found in canola oil, olive oil, sunflower oil, those kinds of cooking oil. So attempt to increase the amount of unsaturated fat that you eat. And thirdly, remember that eating fish, a source of omega 3 fatty acids will help prevent coronary artery disease, because it's anti-inflammatory. And lastly, just remember to eat whole grains as the basis of your diet because they contain a lot of fiber and they'll help lower your cholesterol, which eventually lowers your risk for coronary artery disease. And those are 4 tips on staying healthy and preventing coronary artery disease.

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