TLC for Your Heart: Heart Disease Dietary Treatment and Prevention

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Your lifetime risk for a first major cardiac event(heart attack or stroke) at the age of 40 is about 32% for women and 48% for men.
Risk Factors include:

• Heredity/genetics
  
• Age
  
• Sex
  
• Overweight and Obesity
  
• High cholesterol
  
• High blood pressure
  
• Diabetes
  
• Physical Inactivity
  
• Alcohol abuse
  
• Stress
  
• Smoking

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Change your food choices to reduce your LDL and risk for heart disease
Saturated fat <7 and Total fat <25-35% and cholesterol <200mg = 8 -10% risk reduction
Weight loss: lose 10lbs = 5-8% risk reduction
Soluble fiber: add 10-25grams = 3-5% risk reduction
Plant sterols/stanols: add 2-3grams = 6-15% risk reduction
Cumulative effect: estimated 20-30% risk reduction

Let's Talk Numbers
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Total Cholesterol Numbers

• Desirable: less than 200
  
• Borderline high: 200 – 239
  
• High: 240 and above

• Desirable: less than 100
  
• If have heart disease: less than 70
  
• Above desirable: 100 – 129
  
• Borderline high: 130 – 159
  
• High: 160 and over

• Desirable: Men over 40
  
• Women over 50

• Desirable: less than 150
  
• Borderline high: 150 – 199
  
• High: 200 and over

• Desirable: 120 over 80
  
• Borderline: 139 over 89
  
• High: 140 over 90 and higher

Lets Talk About Habits for Healthy Heart. Let's improve those numbers. Click here for diet help



Healthy Eating
Exercise for Fitness
Achieve a Healthy Body Weight
Achieve desirable Cholesterol Level
Achieve desirable Blood Pressure Level
Low Fat Cooking

Karen Duffy and Carol Francis Jubert are registered dietitians, Florida licensed nutritionists, and certified diabetes educators able to provide in home and office visits in Jacksonville, Saint Augustine, St. John's County and Duval County, Florida. We are also available online to our friends, family and clients from other states. Contact us if you need some menus, diabetes coaching and/or if you would like some free resources. We have years of experience from Mayo Clinic providing Cardiac Diets to patients, working with American Heart Association Culinary Hearts programs and muliple corporate wellness programs. Just let us know how we can help you Click here for diet help

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