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Ready for more?

It's never too late to make changes to look after your heart, improve your health, and get the most out of life.  Our recommendations for heart healthy eating are a guide to what you can be doing to ensure what you eat helps you live life to the full.

Ready for more?
  • Enjoy three meals a day, selecting from dishes that encourage you to eat plant foods and with little or no dairy fat, meat fat or deep fried foods
  • Choose fruits and/or vegetables at every meal and for most snacks
  • Select whole grains, wholegrain breads or high-fibre breakfast cereals, in place of white bread and low fibre varieties
  • Include fish or dried peas, beans and soy products, or a small serving of lean meat or skinned poultry, at one or more meals each day
  • Choose low-fat milk, low fat milk products, soy or legume products every day
  • Use small amounts of oil, margarine, nuts or seeds
  • Drink plenty of fluids each day, particulary water, and limit sugar-sweetened drinks and alcohol
  • Use only small amounts of total fats and oils, sugar and salt when cooking and preparing meals, snacks or drinks.  Chose ready-prepared foods low in these ingredients
  • Mostly avoid or rarely include butter, deep-fried and fatty foods, and only occasionally choose sweet bakery products

Next steps

Sometimes it's easier to make changes one at a time.  Try starting with something easy, and once you've achieved your goal, move onto the next.  Get family and friends on-board to help support you - you might even inspire them to give it a go too!


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