Natural Foods that keeps Your Arteries healthy.
Garlic
If you dont do anything else and want to really clean out your arteries naturally do eat garlic and eat it regularly eat at least 1 to 4 cloves a day. You can eat garlic raw or cooked. Garlic adds a wonderful flavouring to all kinds of recipes and is very versatile. You can include garlic in your diet in many ways in soups and casseroles, on salads mixed with healthy olive oil as a dressing, roasted along with fresh vegetables in the oven and more.
Garlic has a long history dating back to ancient times of use in treating all kinds of heart-related diseases and hypertension. Studies have shown that high doses of garlic (2,400 mg of deorderized garlic per day) significantly lowered both diastolic and systolic blood pressure.
Also, many studies have shown that eating garlic regularly can reduce harmful cholesterol by 10 percent or more. It may also prevent blood clots from forming.
Eating 1 4 cloves a day is estimated to provide 4,000 mcg of allicin, one of garlics most beneficial compounds. If you prefer to take a garlic supplement instead of eating raw garlic because of the strong smell, look for one with the active ingredient alliin, because this substance is relatively odorless until it is converted into allicin in the body.
Grapes
Red seedless grapes are a good source of lutein a carotenoid thats been shown to help reduce early atherosclerosis. Recent studies have shown that lutein also helps prevent thickening of the carotid artery in the neck, an indication of atherolscrosis. It also lowers inflammation of LDL cholesterol in artery walls.
Concord Grape Juice
Both grape skin extract and grape seed extract together have excellent heart-health properties. Grape juice, made from whole concord grapes is a powerful artery-clearing wonder. It protects your artery walls from cholesterol because of some powerful, potent substances.
Found in the skin of the grape is a flavinoid called quercetin which acts as an antioxident to prevent LDL cholesterol from sticking on the walls of your arteries. Resveratrol also found in the skin, removes inflammation and blood clots. Also, procyanidins in the seeds help keep your blood vessels clear including added antioxident properties.
A new study indicates that not only does Concord grape juice stimulated an arterial relaxation effect in a similar fashion to red wine, in fact it even induced a prolonged relaxation effect that has not yet been reported with red wine.
Dr. Valérie Schini-Kerth and a team of researchers of the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, France, found that Concord grape juice stimulated the production of nitric oxide in endothelial cells, providing a vasorelaxation effect. It is known that nitric oxide is important in the bodys natural system for maintaining healthy, flexible blood vessels and helps support healthy blood pressure.
Researchers further discovered that Concord grape juice produced this relaxation effect by stimulating the same chemical reactions in the arteries that are activated by red wine.
The beneficial effect provided by Concord grape juice lasted up to six hours, whereas this extended effect has not been reported with red wine. This research suggests that the benefits of drinking Concord purple grape juice may last long after finishing the juice.
Cherries
The tiny sweet fruit contains over 17 compounds to clear away clogged arteries of plaque even better than vitamin supplements. These compounds, found in the anthocyanins that give cherries their red colour.
Cherries hold more antioxident power than well-known vitamin C and E supplements. Plus being a whole food, you will better absorb all the wonderful nutrients including beneficial fiber which helps to lower cholesterol.
Strawberries
Perfect to toss into your breakfast cereal, strawberries are also loaded with antioxidants, including vitamin C and E, ellagic acid, assorted carotenoid and anthocyanins. They can cut cholesterol levels by 10 percent. Try to buy organic strawberries as they tend to be heavily sprayed with pesticides.
Apples and Grapefruit...
Both of these fruits contain pectin, a soluble fiber that lowers cholesterol. It has been shown in animal studies that pectin will slow down the progression of atherosclerosis and the clogging of arteries.
Apples are a rich source of quercetin including potassium and magnesium minerals that keep your blood pressure under control. A French study found that eating two apples a day can help prevent and reverse hardening of the arteries. Red Delicious and Granny Smith varieties of apple are also rich in procyanidins.
Sweet Potatoes
Full of cholesterol-lowering fiber, potassium, beta carotene, folate and vitamin C, Sweet Potatoes help to lower your blood pressure and keep your arteries clear.
Green Tea
Drinking just one cup a day will give great antioxident protection. The flavinoids in green tea are known as polyphenols which are powerful antioxidents that may be greater than or equal to that of Vitamin C and vitamin E.
Healthy green tea also contains procyanidins, which also help prevent blood clots forming and promote healthy endothelium - the tissues that line your blood vessels and heart.
Hawthorn Tea
The extract from the hawthorn berries can calm palpitations, help restore blood vessel elasticity, ease fluid build-up in the heart, stop fatty degeneration of the heart, help dilate coronary arteries and also reduce blood pressure.
Hawthorne can be used by those already on cardiac medication and may help you decrease your dosage.
Buy a bag of organically-grown hawthorn berries at a natural food store and steep them in hot water as a tea to help your heart stay healthy. Hawthorn has not been shown to have any adverse side effects.
Olive Oil...
Omega-3 fatty acids fight inflammation by countering the inflammatory effects of omega-6, another type of fatty acid. Most people eat diets overloaded with omega-6 which is found in vegetable oils like soybean or corn oil.
Olive oil is on the list of good oils and a monounsaturated fat. Using a cold-pressed organic olive oil as your main source of oil may cut your risk of coronary heart disease almost in half.
Studies have show that particles of LDL (bad) cholesterol that contain monounsaturated fats (found in olive oil) are less likely to become oxidized. This is important because only oxidized cholesterol is able to stick to your artery walls and form plaques.
Also, avocados and nuts like almonds are other good sources monounsaturated fat that help to clean your arteries.
And, a tip re oil... don't use Canola Oil... it's known as a GMO oil and not good. I will post more on this soon...
But just remember, fat is still fattening so, go easy to not eat too much. A good strategy is to avoid the bad fats like the cookies, ice-cream, red meats, salt-laden cheeses and butter and replace them with the healthier unsaturated fats.
Salmon
Fish, especially fatty fish like salmon, herring and tuna have some of the best source of omega-3 fatty acid nutrients. The American Heart Association recommends including two fatty-fish meals a week in your diet.
Wild salmon, in addition to tasting great is really rich in the omega-3 good fats, which makes the blood less likely to clot within your arteries, thus preventing cholesterol from becoming damaged or oxidized. (Farmed salmon is not recommended because it is full of toxins and far less omega-3s).
A nice combination for dinner is to include salmon and spinach which will give you plenty of omega-3 fats, vitamin C and vitamin A, which are all very good for your arteries.
Note: Its recommended to limit your consumption of tuna and halibut as they are known to have more toxins present being deep-water fish salmon is definitely better.
Spinach
Vitamin C and vitamin A which help prevent cholesterol from becoming oxidized will help to prevent clogging plaque from building up in your arteries. Spinach is also chocked full of Vitamin C and A.
Swiss Chard
This leafy-green alternative is an excellent source of vitamin E, another antioxidant which helps prevent free radicals from oxidizing cholesterol. Eating a diet rich in vitamin E has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of developing clogged arteries.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in carotenoid lycopene, an antioxidant that can significantly lower your risk of atherosclerosis nearly in half. Tomato juice, soup and ketchup (low sodium choices) give you a more-concentrated form than fresh tomatoes.
Also, antioxident-rich tomatoes may make LDL cholesterol much less susceptible to becoming oxidized being a first step in the formation of artery-clogging plaque formation which is a major risk factor for heart disease.
Garbanzo Beans
All beans contain both important soluble and insoluble dietary fiber, but garbanzo beans are one of the best which help to remove cholesterol-containing bile from your body. They are also known to help prevent heart disease.
Stay healthy my friends
Garlic
If you dont do anything else and want to really clean out your arteries naturally do eat garlic and eat it regularly eat at least 1 to 4 cloves a day. You can eat garlic raw or cooked. Garlic adds a wonderful flavouring to all kinds of recipes and is very versatile. You can include garlic in your diet in many ways in soups and casseroles, on salads mixed with healthy olive oil as a dressing, roasted along with fresh vegetables in the oven and more.
Garlic has a long history dating back to ancient times of use in treating all kinds of heart-related diseases and hypertension. Studies have shown that high doses of garlic (2,400 mg of deorderized garlic per day) significantly lowered both diastolic and systolic blood pressure.
Also, many studies have shown that eating garlic regularly can reduce harmful cholesterol by 10 percent or more. It may also prevent blood clots from forming.
Eating 1 4 cloves a day is estimated to provide 4,000 mcg of allicin, one of garlics most beneficial compounds. If you prefer to take a garlic supplement instead of eating raw garlic because of the strong smell, look for one with the active ingredient alliin, because this substance is relatively odorless until it is converted into allicin in the body.
Grapes
Red seedless grapes are a good source of lutein a carotenoid thats been shown to help reduce early atherosclerosis. Recent studies have shown that lutein also helps prevent thickening of the carotid artery in the neck, an indication of atherolscrosis. It also lowers inflammation of LDL cholesterol in artery walls.
Concord Grape Juice
Both grape skin extract and grape seed extract together have excellent heart-health properties. Grape juice, made from whole concord grapes is a powerful artery-clearing wonder. It protects your artery walls from cholesterol because of some powerful, potent substances.
Found in the skin of the grape is a flavinoid called quercetin which acts as an antioxident to prevent LDL cholesterol from sticking on the walls of your arteries. Resveratrol also found in the skin, removes inflammation and blood clots. Also, procyanidins in the seeds help keep your blood vessels clear including added antioxident properties.
A new study indicates that not only does Concord grape juice stimulated an arterial relaxation effect in a similar fashion to red wine, in fact it even induced a prolonged relaxation effect that has not yet been reported with red wine.
Dr. Valérie Schini-Kerth and a team of researchers of the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, France, found that Concord grape juice stimulated the production of nitric oxide in endothelial cells, providing a vasorelaxation effect. It is known that nitric oxide is important in the bodys natural system for maintaining healthy, flexible blood vessels and helps support healthy blood pressure.
Researchers further discovered that Concord grape juice produced this relaxation effect by stimulating the same chemical reactions in the arteries that are activated by red wine.
The beneficial effect provided by Concord grape juice lasted up to six hours, whereas this extended effect has not been reported with red wine. This research suggests that the benefits of drinking Concord purple grape juice may last long after finishing the juice.
Cherries
The tiny sweet fruit contains over 17 compounds to clear away clogged arteries of plaque even better than vitamin supplements. These compounds, found in the anthocyanins that give cherries their red colour.
Cherries hold more antioxident power than well-known vitamin C and E supplements. Plus being a whole food, you will better absorb all the wonderful nutrients including beneficial fiber which helps to lower cholesterol.
Strawberries
Perfect to toss into your breakfast cereal, strawberries are also loaded with antioxidants, including vitamin C and E, ellagic acid, assorted carotenoid and anthocyanins. They can cut cholesterol levels by 10 percent. Try to buy organic strawberries as they tend to be heavily sprayed with pesticides.
Apples and Grapefruit...
Both of these fruits contain pectin, a soluble fiber that lowers cholesterol. It has been shown in animal studies that pectin will slow down the progression of atherosclerosis and the clogging of arteries.
Apples are a rich source of quercetin including potassium and magnesium minerals that keep your blood pressure under control. A French study found that eating two apples a day can help prevent and reverse hardening of the arteries. Red Delicious and Granny Smith varieties of apple are also rich in procyanidins.
Sweet Potatoes
Full of cholesterol-lowering fiber, potassium, beta carotene, folate and vitamin C, Sweet Potatoes help to lower your blood pressure and keep your arteries clear.
Green Tea
Drinking just one cup a day will give great antioxident protection. The flavinoids in green tea are known as polyphenols which are powerful antioxidents that may be greater than or equal to that of Vitamin C and vitamin E.
Healthy green tea also contains procyanidins, which also help prevent blood clots forming and promote healthy endothelium - the tissues that line your blood vessels and heart.
Hawthorn Tea
The extract from the hawthorn berries can calm palpitations, help restore blood vessel elasticity, ease fluid build-up in the heart, stop fatty degeneration of the heart, help dilate coronary arteries and also reduce blood pressure.
Hawthorne can be used by those already on cardiac medication and may help you decrease your dosage.
Buy a bag of organically-grown hawthorn berries at a natural food store and steep them in hot water as a tea to help your heart stay healthy. Hawthorn has not been shown to have any adverse side effects.
Olive Oil...
Omega-3 fatty acids fight inflammation by countering the inflammatory effects of omega-6, another type of fatty acid. Most people eat diets overloaded with omega-6 which is found in vegetable oils like soybean or corn oil.
Olive oil is on the list of good oils and a monounsaturated fat. Using a cold-pressed organic olive oil as your main source of oil may cut your risk of coronary heart disease almost in half.
Studies have show that particles of LDL (bad) cholesterol that contain monounsaturated fats (found in olive oil) are less likely to become oxidized. This is important because only oxidized cholesterol is able to stick to your artery walls and form plaques.
Also, avocados and nuts like almonds are other good sources monounsaturated fat that help to clean your arteries.
And, a tip re oil... don't use Canola Oil... it's known as a GMO oil and not good. I will post more on this soon...
But just remember, fat is still fattening so, go easy to not eat too much. A good strategy is to avoid the bad fats like the cookies, ice-cream, red meats, salt-laden cheeses and butter and replace them with the healthier unsaturated fats.
Salmon
Fish, especially fatty fish like salmon, herring and tuna have some of the best source of omega-3 fatty acid nutrients. The American Heart Association recommends including two fatty-fish meals a week in your diet.
Wild salmon, in addition to tasting great is really rich in the omega-3 good fats, which makes the blood less likely to clot within your arteries, thus preventing cholesterol from becoming damaged or oxidized. (Farmed salmon is not recommended because it is full of toxins and far less omega-3s).
A nice combination for dinner is to include salmon and spinach which will give you plenty of omega-3 fats, vitamin C and vitamin A, which are all very good for your arteries.
Note: Its recommended to limit your consumption of tuna and halibut as they are known to have more toxins present being deep-water fish salmon is definitely better.
Spinach
Vitamin C and vitamin A which help prevent cholesterol from becoming oxidized will help to prevent clogging plaque from building up in your arteries. Spinach is also chocked full of Vitamin C and A.
Swiss Chard
This leafy-green alternative is an excellent source of vitamin E, another antioxidant which helps prevent free radicals from oxidizing cholesterol. Eating a diet rich in vitamin E has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of developing clogged arteries.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in carotenoid lycopene, an antioxidant that can significantly lower your risk of atherosclerosis nearly in half. Tomato juice, soup and ketchup (low sodium choices) give you a more-concentrated form than fresh tomatoes.
Also, antioxident-rich tomatoes may make LDL cholesterol much less susceptible to becoming oxidized being a first step in the formation of artery-clogging plaque formation which is a major risk factor for heart disease.
Garbanzo Beans
All beans contain both important soluble and insoluble dietary fiber, but garbanzo beans are one of the best which help to remove cholesterol-containing bile from your body. They are also known to help prevent heart disease.
Stay healthy my friends
