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Learn how to reduce your risk for heart disease. Find heart-healthy eating tips to reduce fat in the diet and lower cholesterol levels.
Browse through heart healthy dinners, family meals, Latino recipes, and more!
Find favorite African American recipes, prepared in a heart-healthy way to be lower in fat, especially saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium.
What do the numbers mean? Learn about cholesterol, its components, health effects, and ways to improve your cholesterol to reduce your risk of a heart attack.
Discover the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan to gain better control of high blood pressure. See a week's worth of sample menus and recipes, which feature plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other foods that are heart healthy and lower in salt/sodium.
For more than a decade, The Heart Truth® program has worked to raise awareness about women’s risk for heart disease―the #1 killer of women in the United States―and share the steps they need to make to lead a heart healthy life.
Follow this heart healthy eating plan to lower your cholesterol.
Check out the "Recipes for Heart Health" section to help you cook up a week of tasty, heart healthy meals with recipes from the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan.
Find a wealth of information and links to resources on many aspects of heart disease. Also in Spanish.
When it comes to your heart, what you eat matters. Follow these tips for heart-healthy eating.
Find answers to frequently asked questions on the basics of good nutrition and healthy eating. Available in PDF|176 KB. Also see information on Heart Disease and Stroke.
Read the final recommendation statement on Vitamin, Mineral, and Multivitamin Supplements for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer, issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. This statement applies to healthy adults who have no known nutritional deficiencies.