How can healthy eating help reduce my risk for heart or coronary disease?

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UnitedHealthcare answered:
The right diet can help keep your arteries clear and work to cut your risk factors.
- Healthy carbs, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and beans and legumes are loaded with fiber and protective nutrients.
- Lean proteins such as fish, skinless poultry, dry beans, limited eggs, and nuts can take the place of fatty meats, and low-fat dairy products like milk, cheese, yogurt, and cottage cheese can take the place of fatty cheeses.
Healthy fats, such as canola and olive oil, avocado, salmon, mackerel, sardines, and herring, should replace harmful saturated and trans fats.
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Intermountain Healthcare answered:
Healthy eating can help you control major cardiac risk factors -- or even eliminate them -- by:
- Lowering your cholesterol
- Losing excess weight
- Controlling blood sugar and diabetes
- Lowering your blood pressure
A healthy diet can help heart, blood pressure, or cholesterol medications work better and with fewer side effects.

And healthy eating simply makes you feel better. You’ll have more energy, more restful sleep, and improved digestion. Feeling better makes any treatment or prevention plan more effective.
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