Eating Breakfast Can Help Ward Off Heart Disease
One of the topics I’m most passionate about is helping women to prevent heart disease and reduce risk factors. As the number one killer of women, far too many women are dying (almost 500,000 deaths per year) from something that’s largely preventable. By making simple diet and lifestyle changes, we can all improve our heart health.
I came across an article today that’s very interesting and speaks to the notion of heart health. Although it’s not specific to women, but is helpful to everyone. The Harvard Heart Letter suggests that eating a healthy breakfast reduces the risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes. Eating breakfast helps to regulate blood sugar throughout the day and can curb your appetite. In particular, they emphasize eating more whole grains and healthy forms of protein. What do you eat for breakfast? Do you notice a difference when you eat more whole grains than not?
I personally couldn’t agree more with the results. Eating breakfast is something I’m in the habit of doing everyday, and I’m all about eating whole grains. Just this morning I had a small bowl of quinoa, a grain from South America, with some vegetable soup I made. I know, it may be a little odd to be eating soup and quinoa for breakfast, but it was healthy and delicious and got my day off to a good start. Oatmeal and whole grain toast are other good options.
Tell me more about your breakfast routine. What works for you and how heart healthy is it?
And stay tuned for information about my upcoming Take Your Health to Heart Challenge which encourages women to take their heart healthy seriously and get into action — more details to follow about that soon.
Filed under: High Quality Food, Heart disease, Women, Healthy Meals, Heart Health, Fiber, Grains, Eating, Women's Health
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