Why Your Heart Loves These Superfoods

Edamame

It looks perfect for your appetizer. Recently, these green soybeans have moved beyond Japanese restaurants due to they're so tasty for a appetizer. That’s because they're packed with protein, which actually can lower your blood triglyceride levels. Try to eat a half cup of edamame, this green bean has 9 grams of cholesterol-lowering fiber, which equals to four slices of whole-wheat bread.

Easy Tip To Cook: Try frozen edamame and then boil them until tender and serve warm in the pod.

Tofu

If you have a chance to have dinner at Chinese restaurant, order stir-fry tofu with mixed veggies. These are made from soy protein. Or you can make your dinner more often with tofu instead of red meat. Definitely, you will gain all the heart-healthy fiber, minerals, and polyunsaturated fats of soy. And also you avoid a load of artery-clogging saturated fat.

Easy Tip To Cook: Chop firm tofu into a small piece, marinate them, and then grill or stir-fry, it’s going easy on the olive oil. Or add tofu to soups for protein.

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Heart Healthy Superfoods

Tuna for Omega-3s

No doubt about that tuna is a good source of heart-healthy due to it contains omega-3s; which generally costs less than salmon. So Albacore or white tuna contains more omega-3s than other tuna varieties. Here are other fish that are rich of omega-3s, too: lake trout, mackerel, anchovies, herring, and sardines.

Here is a good recipe: Try this: grill tuna steak with lemon and dill; however, please choose tuna packed in water, not in oil.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

This type of oil made from the first press of olives. Especially, this oil is rich in heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, as well as antioxidants called polyphenols. Did you know when we use olive oil instead of saturated fat like butter or cheese, it can help lower you cholesterol levels. An antioxidants, polyphenols may protect our blood vessels, too.

Try this: Use for mixed salads, on cooked mixed veggies, serve with bread. This can help us to fight for cold-pressed and use within six months.

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Foods That Can Save Your Heart Stay Healthy

Let’s Talk About “Fresh Herbs” First

Did you know how fresh herbs make your foods heart-healthy when you use them instead of sugar, salt, and trans fats. These herbs can combine perfectly with nuts, berries and even coffee form a global approach to heart-wise eating. Lots of papers recommend that there are many way ways to fight high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol,  stroke, and diabetes that included with herbs.

The fact that these fresh herbs like rosemary, thyme, sage, and oregano  contain antioxidants that help fight the body’s free radicals.

Black Beans

Good news, if you are a fan of black bean, try to make them mild, tender black beans due to they are packed with heart-healthy nutrients including antioxidants, folate, magnesium (Mg), and fibre, which help control both blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

The fact that canned black beans are quick way to add them into your soups and salads. Rinse them first in order to remove extra sodium.

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Foods That Fight Free Radicals

Nuts And Grains

Have you ever tried to add these superfoods into your meals? Like whole wheat grain, Oatmeal, brown rice, in particular the wild rice, or nuts are also very good source for preventing the effects of free radicals due to these are rich in Vitamin E, which is the natural antioxidant not only prevents you from the body’s free radicals, but also neutralizes the molecules that have already affected to your health. In addition, other foods that rich of Vitamin E may also help repair DNA damage.

Spinach

This superfood is so wonderful and powerful carotenoid and antioxidant effects because it contains both beta-carotene and lutein. These compounds have strong anti-cancer properties. Additionally, they also have health benefits. Not only they lower the risk for stroke and heart disease but also they can treat hypertension.

Healthy Pickled Chicken Curry For Weight Loss

Healthy Pickled Chicken Curry For Weight Loss

Serves for 4

Preparation: 20 minutes

Cooking: 20 minutes

Calories about 346

Ingredients:


▪ 2 tbsp of garam masala

▪ 10 gloves of garlic, chopped

▪ 100ml olive oil

▪ 5 whole bird eye chillies

▪ 150g onions, thinly sliced

▪ 20g of ginger-garlic paste

▪ 2tbsp of tomato paste

▪ 2tbsp of lemon juice

▪ 500g of chicken thighs

▪ 200g of low-fat yoghurt

▪ 1 1/2 tbsp of sea salt

Directions:

1. Sauté the chopped garlic and garam masala in the olive oil. We use plenty of garlic because it improves your blood flow and lowers your bad cholesterol, too, combination with the healthy bacteria in the yoghurt is a magnifying the effect.

2. And then add bird eye chillies and sliced onions, after that saute them until it looks light brown, then fry them again with the ginger-garlic paste for 2 or 3 minutes.

3. Then add tomato paste with 100ml water, chicken, and lemon juice, then simmer. Season to make it tasty. Whisk in the yoghurt and then simmer gently for 10 minutes. Protein from chicken make you feel full longer.

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