Heart Healthy Living

Found another good web site to keep your heart healthy -
  Heart Healthy Living!    (click & check it out)

The article I read was - Food Swaps to Lower Tryglycerides

Here are some of the switches:
Instead of: Bagel with cream cheese 
Choose: Whole wheat English muffin with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter


Instead of: Cheese omelet
Choose: Egg-white omelet with spinach, onions, peppers (or any vegetables you like), with or without one slice of whole wheat toast


Instead of: Sugar-frosted, honey-dipped, or chocolate cereal
Choose: 100-percent whole grain cereals, such as shredded wheat, Total, Kashi, or oatmeal; fat-free milk; and 1 tablespoon of chopped almonds


Instead of: Soda or fruit drinks
Choose: Flavored seltzers, diet sodas, fat-free milk or low-fat soymilk, tea


Instead of: Cookies
Choose: One handful of unsalted nuts (about 10-12 nuts) with a cup of tea, fat-free milk, or water


Instead of: Potato chips
Choose: 10 Soy Crisps crackers or carrots with 2-3 tablespoons hummus


Instead of: Spaghetti and meatballs
Choose: Whole grain pasta primavera with broccoli, onions, carrots, and peas lightly sauteed with garlic and olive oil


Instead of: Ice cream
Choose: 1/2 cup fat-free frozen yogurt with 1 teaspoon chopped walnuts


Some good ideas - I have a sweet tooth and if any cookies or ice cream is in the house I will attack it!  Need to try the frozen yogurt & a better replacement for cookies.  The "sweet" hunger drive is hard to beat!  And I tried some of the whole grain pasta, but did not like it.  One trick I have for the sweet hunger drive is sugar free hard candy.