heart-healthy
adjective
: conducive to a healthy heart and circulatory system
heart-healthy exercise
a heart-healthy diet
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The coaches can counsel you on adopting a heart-healthy diet, fitting daily physical activity into your schedule, and reducing stress.
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Julia Ries, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
Whether the keto diet can be considered heart-healthy or not remains controversial.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 9 Apr. 2025
Eating a heart-healthy diet: Focus on fruits and vegetables, lean protein, beans, and legumes.
—Anju Goel, Verywell Health, 1 Apr. 2025
Experts have recommended extra virgin olive oil — primarily a heart-healthy monounsaturated fat, the oil also contains vitamins E and K, antioxidants that help protect against cell damage and inflammation, and cholesterol-lowering oleic acid.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
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Julia Ries, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
Whether the keto diet can be considered heart-healthy or not remains controversial.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 9 Apr. 2025
Eating a heart-healthy diet: Focus on fruits and vegetables, lean protein, beans, and legumes.
—Anju Goel, Verywell Health, 1 Apr. 2025
Experts have recommended extra virgin olive oil — primarily a heart-healthy monounsaturated fat, the oil also contains vitamins E and K, antioxidants that help protect against cell damage and inflammation, and cholesterol-lowering oleic acid.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
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heart-healthy
adjective
: conducive to a healthy heart and circulatory system
heart-healthy exercise
a heart-healthy diet
Sales of fish-oil supplements—one source of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids—are booming and poised to climb even higher.—David Bjerklie et al., Time
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