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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.
Learn what steps you can take to reduce sodium in your diet.
Browse through heart healthy dinners, family meals, Latino recipes, and more!
Find favorite African American recipes, including mac and cheese, okra, jambalaya, and barbecue chicken, prepared using heart healthy food substitutions.
What do your numbers mean? Learn about cholesterol and its health effects, plus ways to improve your cholesterol levels.
Read this booklet for tips to improve heart health, including knowing your risk, being physically active, controlling blood pressure, and maintaining a healthy weight.
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.
Find a wealth of information and links to resources and research on heart disease.
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.
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.
These profiles provide detailed health status information relating to heart disease for specific minority populations: