Try These Heart-Healthy Grocery Shopping Tips!
Grocery shopping plays a key role in maintaining a heart-healthy diet, but certain foods can work against cardiovascular well-being. Heinen’s dietitian Melanie Jatsek said a heart-healthy diet is also an anti-inflammatory diet.
“The great thing about a heart-healthy diet is you’re not just eating to feed a healthy heart,” Jatsek said. “You’re eating to feed a healthy brain, a healthy liver, healthy digestive system.”
Jatsek said shoppers should stay as close to plant-based as possible, limit added sugar and focus on fiber and healthy fats. She filled a cart at the Brecksville location with items from the center aisles, which can be full of high-sodium, unhealthy choices.
Sweet alternatives: To satisfy a sweet tooth, Jatsek said shoppers should choose walnut or almond butters, figs and dates. “Mother Nature’s candy,” Jatsek said.
Excerpted from WABI5
