Heart Health

 

Heart diseases are among the biggest killers on Earth.  Doctors advise cutting out saturated fats, and doing regular exercises. 

What I have been doing for the past many years:

• Reduce consumption of red meat.  Whenever I have a choice, I would go for fish or chicken;

• Reduce consumption of deep-fried food, or anything high in saturated or trans fat;

• Reduce consumption of processed food, especially those that do not look like the original thing. Examples: luncheon meat, ham, hotdogs (they are overly processed and hence do not look like pork meat), chicken nuggets etc;

• Reduce consumption of high-sugar food like cakes, ice cream and sugar drinks (at most once every two weeks);

• Use canola-olive oil for cooking.

For the past few health checks, my blood cholesterol level is in the perfect range (high in good cholesterol, low in bad cholesterol).  What I need to work on now, is to exercise more.