Don’t Eat These 10 Foods If You Want A Healthy Heart, Eat These 10 Instead

The taste and convenience of fast food lure millions every year, but it’s worth keeping tabs on just how detrimental frequent trips are to your heart.

Fast Food

Deep-fried items like fish and chips, mozzarella sticks, french fries, and fried chicken often contain unhealthy fats and calories.

Fried Foods

It seems like a good idea at first glance, but canned soup comes with high sodium levels. So high, in fact, that regular consumption can lead to an elevated risk of heart attacks, strokes, and high blood pressure.

Canned Soup

We’re not talking about the whole grain variety—we’re talking about the ones loaded with sugar and calories.

Cereal

There’s ultimately no glaring issue with a glass of wine at dinner or a beer during the game. But consume too much alcohol and you could easily experience high blood pressure, heart failure, and an increased risk of stroke.

Excessive Alcohol

Bacon, sausage, and hot dogs are all prime examples of processed meats loaded with saturated fats, sodium, and preservatives.

Processed Meats

A soda here or there won’t cause significant heart damage, but regular consumption will. Packed with added sugar, soda can lead to insulin resistance, elevated risk of heart disease, and weight gain.

Soda

A quick and easy staple, instant noodles are full of sodium and unhealthy fats that can cause weight gain and high blood pressure.

Instant Noodles

A spoonful of Ceasar makes the greens go down…and increases the risk of obesity and heart disease. Creamy salad dressings are typically packed with unhealthy fats and calories, neither of which do your heart any favors.

Creamy Dressings

Frozen meals come chock-full of preservatives, sodium, and unhealthy fats. They often don’t have the nutrients you need and regular consumption can easily lead to an increased risk of heart disease.

Frozen Dinners

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