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    Healthy Heart Food Number Eight

    Posted on: Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy & Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeart Shopping Stop
    Dried Plums- The dried fruits are very easy snacks to carry and store. And one of those dried fruits having large counts of antioxidants is the dried plum, otherwise known as the prune. This “wrinkled up old plum” is also very high in fiber.
    The antioxidant count in prunes is 5,570 units per 100g […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number Seven

    Posted on: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy & Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeaShopping Stop
    Papaya- The tropics produce many healthy foods, one of these many is pap, this coral colored sweet tret is loaded with digestive enzymes and potassium. Potassium helps maintain smooth muscle contractions and is considered one of the top three heart nutrients.
    A medium sized papaya contains around 780 milligrams as compared […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number Six

    Posted on: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy & Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeart Shopping Stop
    Flavonones (a subcategory of flavonoids) are found in many food items, Citrus fruits are loaded with  them. The flavonone level is so high that statin drug users are cautioned against eating citrus fruits, especially grapefruit.
    When eating citrus we are doing two things regarding cholesterol. One we are lowering “bad”, and two we […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number Five

    Posted on: Monday, January 28th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy & Heidi Mercer’s HealhyHeart Shopping Stop
    Oatmeal-This staple of the breakfast table is one of the healthiest Mom told me about. No wonder I heard “Eat your oatmeal, it’s good for you.” from the lady that raised my Mom, my Mom, and now my wife!
    This grain is loaded with vitamins, minerals and it helps reduce […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number Four

    Posted on: Sunday, January 27th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Exercise Equipment at The Store
    Herring: This swimming healthy feast is more often than not left at the market and replaced with salmon. Both saslmon and herring are good choices, the herring is more rich in omega-3s. So if it is the omeg-3s you are looking for, herring is the choice to make.
    Omega-3s are the fatty acids […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number Three

    Posted on: Saturday, January 26th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy and Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeart Shopping Stop
    Green Tea: This healthy, and in my opinion delicious drink has much less caffeine than regular back or oolong teas. This healthyheart is considered to be the tea most practical to drink with meals because it contains less caffeine.
    While all teas have good qualities and health value, (Vitamins A, C, E, tannus and […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number Two

    Posted on: Friday, January 25th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy and Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeart Shopping Stop

    CHOCOLATE, and who among us would ever think of this sweet treat as a beneficicial aid to reduce the risk of heart disease? This food is not only good, but now… research shows that dark chocolate is a good aid for lowering “bad” cholesterol.
    That is right: a six ounce servingof chocolate daily reduced the […]

    Healthy Heart Food Number One

    Posted on: Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in: Food Ideas

     Roy & Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeartShopping Stop
    In this case, the number one is not a ranking but a numeric listing…in other words, I am not going to rank food …simply list the ones we have tried, like, and find them to be beneficial. The change in lifestyle made for recovery from heart disease is not an easy […]

    Heart Disease Weight Loss Step Seven

    Posted on: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in: Toward better health.

     Roy & Heidi Mercder’s HealthyHeart Shopping Stop
    EXERCISE—EXERCISE—EXERCISE is step seven. The benefits of exercise are far too many to mention in one article. There are some basic benefits of exercising to weight loss that need to be mentioned so we know how exercise basicly show how exercise works.
    First…. exercise burns calories. No matter what I have heard of […]

    Heart Disease Weight Loss Step Six

    Posted on: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 in: Toward better health.

     Roy & di Mercer’s HealthyHeart Shopping Stop
    I am not sure about others, but I know that when I am deprived for too long I tend to go on a huge binge. The item or items am deprived of are the very things I binge on. I have done that with several diet plans, and each time I have felt […]