Diet for agin heart
Eat a heart-healthy diet with reduced amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol and rich in unrefined, complex carbohydrates. Heart disease often begins in childhood by consumption of heart unhealthy diets from a young age and fatty deposits getting accumulated in the arteries. Lesions in the arteries often appear in young people following this unhealthy regimen. A sustained low fat vegetarian diet which consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, soya bean products and yoghurt etc along with regular exercise, stress management, non-smoking etc has been proved to even regress arterial fatty deposits of patients with heart disease. Dietary practices recommended to reduce the risk of heart disease includes

* Keep fat intake below 30 percent of your total calories. Try to avoid fried food stuffs and also food that contain excess fat such as beef, mutton etc.

* Within the recommended fat intake, less than 10% should come from saturated fat. i.e 25 gm for women and 30gm for men. A slice of cheese, a pat of butter, one half cup of milk contains about 5gm of fat.

* 50 to 60% of your total calories should come from carbohydrates such as rice, bread, potatoes and pasta.

* Limit the cholesterol in your diet to 300milligrams or less, a day. Eggs, meat and diary products are major sources of cholesterol. One egg yolk contains about 220 milligrams of choleterol.

* Reduce the amount of salt intake.

* Eat raw vegetables such as cucumber, carrot, tomato, onion etc as also foods with more fibre content.