From the Heart-Healthy Diet issue of UHN Heart-Healthy Diet

1. Watching What You Eat: How to Make Heart-Healthy Choices

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By UHN • January 26, 2018

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Forget the crash diets: A heart-healthy eating plan is a way of life. It’s about forming new habits instead of following rules until you can finally break them. Nutrition experts are increasingly using the terms “nutrient density” and “nutrient-rich” to describe the foods—fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins—we should be eating more of, with less […]

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