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The  heart is one of the most essential organs in your body and the foods you eat effect how it performss. If you want your heart to be strong and healthy it is important for you to eat a healthy diet. Heart-healthy foods are available at the grocery store, so choose some that work for your personal likes and you should be able to prevent the risk of heart disease.

 Cholesterol is the most important thing to consider when it comes to eating  foods that are healthy for your heart. There are both good cholesterols and bad cholesterols.

 Good cholesterols are called HDL and their job is to take excess bad cholesterol to the liver, where it is broken down and then leaves the body. Bad cholesterols (LDL) are  actually not needed by your body at all from foods.

Your body makes enough of this kind of cholesterol on its own. It is the bad cholesterol that hurts your heart. The good  cholesterol actually helps your heart by reducing the amount of LDL in the body.

Remember it is imortant to have regular check ups for all cholesterol sufferers. Today it is easy to get the results and know if you have to change your diet. It is important to accept that eating for a healthy heart is something we must do.

LDL stands for low-density lipoproteins. Because this substance has a low density, it does not flow through the blood stream as easily as it should. The red blood cells release the LDL cholesterol and it sticks to the walls of your blood vessels, especially in the arteries leading to your heart. This is bad for a number of reasons.