• Question: what he best food for your heart

    Asked by nrtyx to Alex, Amy, Andy, Georgia, Ollie on 14 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Alex Munro

      Alex Munro answered on 10 Jun 2011:


      Remember your heart is a muscle, so the best thing you can do for it, is exercise it! The best foods for your heart would be things that wouldn’t ‘harm’ it; saturated fats for example (animal fats) are strongly linked to a condition called atherosclerosis; this is where plaques (or ‘scabs’) form in your arteries which sometimes come lose, travel to your heart and block an artery which provides blood to your heart. If this happens, an area of your heart, starved of oxygen, dies. Eventually, your heart becomes so weak it either fails or you have a heart attack…

    • Photo: Andy MacLeod

      Andy MacLeod answered on 14 Jun 2011:


      Beans.

      I know a rhyme about it. 😀

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