Your guide to "heart healthy eating" would be?

Exclude nothing. Everything in moderation, but lean heavily on fresh, real vegetables and fruits, whole grain breads and fresh fish.

Some meat occasionally.

Complex carbs and sweets rarely (as treats).

No soda.

Drink a boatload of water.

Eat nothing but whole fresh foods and avoid simple sugars like the plague. No no’s are juice drinks, sodas, sugars, white anything…..bread, rice, fatty meats.

Eat oatmeal for breakfast, can of tuna for lunch, and tomato salad for dinner and you will live an extra 9 nine days if you don’t get hit by a car first.

I would really like to agree with the first poster – but there is no way I could.

We’ve messed up the food chain. The vegan diet right now is the healthiest. What I would say is, follow that as your best choice (access, finances – what is available). If you can’t – be vegetarian. If you can’t – be flexitarian but heavily weighted toward fresh (also darker) greens and fruit.

@Cruiser ‘s post related to carb in/out takes and how your body breaks them down. But I would really – not advice a can of tuna for lunch.

I would recommend Dr. Greger’s Clinical Nutrition reviews. They are easy to watch – and he goes through every article on Clinical Nutrition every year. http://www.drgreger.org/ – or you can at least use it as a starting point and then head over to pub med or other databases to verify – read more details.

Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
– Michael Pollan

I heard that healty oils, fats, plenty of lean protein, vegetables and fruits are best. Everything in moderation. Limiting caffine intake can help too.