We all know the famous quote " An Apple a day keep the doctor away" Here we can add tomatoes and cranberries which are healthy fruits to keep the doctor away too.
New research shows incorporating these three red , round fruits into your daily diet can reduce your risk of heart disease as much as 40 % .
Indeed, diet can have a tremendous impact on heart health and should be the first line of defense when treating high cholesterol or high blood pressure , two of the biggest risk factors for heart disease. In many patients there can be an improvement in cholesterol levels from diet alone.
Fortunately , the antioxidant rich fruits features here are as tasty as they are healthy.
Tomatoes: A recent new study showed that eating lycopene rich foods such as tomatoes more than five times a week oven an 11 year period reduced coronary disease risk by 26%.
Its best to eat tomatoes cooked, because the heating process allows lycopene to be better absorbed.
Apples: An apple daily can reduce LDL (the bad cholesterol) by as much as 40%. A study was done on post menopausal woman and it was found to have a link between eating apple and a lowered risk of dying from heart disease. Be sure to eat the fruit as a whole rather than drinking juice because the peel has most of the anti oxidants.
Cranberries: Drinking 3 cups of cranberry juice daily can raise HDL (good cholesterol)by 10% and reduced heart disease. Cranberry juice also helps decreasing atherosclerosis (the clogging of the arteries). If you can drink 3 cups , one or two will have benefits too.
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