Diets Good for Your Heart

Certain diets are good for the health of your heart.
Such diets are suggested to those with diabetes or pre-diabetes, who are overweight, especially around the middle. The South Beach Diet is great for improving cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides and blood glucose .
This diet limits multiple less healthy carbohydrates, including cookies, cakes, sweets, white pasta and breads, particularly during the initial fortnight’s weight loss phase, then it becomes a moderate-carb diet. It reduces saturated fat as in butter and fatty meats and encourages the consumption of fish and olive oil, which is high in monounsaturated fat .
A Mediterranean-style diet is also good for individuals to improve cholesterol levels.
This kind of diet is not calorie restricted. It is more about lowering unhealthy fats and increasing healthy fats, eating 7 to 10 daily servings of fruit and veg, lean protein, fish high in omega-3 fatty acids, like, tuna, salmon, trout and sardines, peas, beans, legumes and nuts, as well as small quantities of whole-grain bread and whole-wheat pasta, olives, olive oil and avocados, which are high is healthy monounsaturated fat.
When it comes to the wine content of the Mediterranean Diet, the recommended intake is a one 6-ounce glass daily for women and two glasses daily for men.