How Much Fish You Should Eat To Reduce Heart Disease, Stroke Risk

The just-released American Heart Association (AHA) Science Advisory doesn't justify my eating sushi for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day during a recent visit to Japan. However, it does re-affirm that eating one to two servings of fish a week may help reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.

 How to Get Some of the Benefits of a Vegan Diet Without Actually Going Vegan

Eating kind of like a vegan can give you a healthier heart, lower cholesterol, awesome poops—and you don't have to part with your bacon.

Is Eating Late Bad for Your Heart?

The American Heart Association suggests that late night eating might increase your risk of heart disease. But how solid is the evidence?

Can Your Diet Help Fight Disease?

As scientists decode the molecular impact of food on the body, personalized nutrition is emerging as a potential treatment for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened.

The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of scientific studies to show cocoa is good for you.

For A Healthy Heart, Add A Little Olive Oil

The effectiveness of the Mediterranean diet isn’t really up for debate anymore—at this point, it’s more a question of how to tweak it, and home in on what the active ingredients are.

Have a Healthy Heart Diet

Gone are the days when a healthy heart diet meant filling up on tasteless, boring meals. The latest advice to help us lower the risk of heart disease actively encourages us to create meals with delicious, fresh ingredients like salmon, avocado, olive oil, oats, wholegrains and an array of fruit and vegetables.

Heart Disease and Diet

What are the challenges to a healthy diet? People today are typically crisis managers. We don't take steps to ensure good health until it is too late.

Heart Healthy Diets: The Vegetarian Way

Heart healthy diets are low in saturated fat, low in cholesterol, low to moderate in fat, and high in fiber. A vegetarian diet can easily meet these guidelines. Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry.

High-protein diets are linked to heightened risk for heart disease, even for vegetarians

Despite the popularity of such diets, the research on how they impact heart health has been relatively scant. A new study, though, published this week by the American Heart Association, shows that eating a lot of protein—derived from both plants and animals—is linked to an elevated risk of cardiovascular failure.

Is a Vegan Diet Good for Your Heart?

A vegan diet did better than an American Heart Association regimen in reducing inflammation during a clinical trial but doctors say more research is needed.

Is Whole-Fat Dairy Good for the Heart?

Dietary guidelines suggest substituting fat-free or low-fat dairy for full-fat products, but a new study questions those recommendations.

Mediterranean diet: A heart-healthy eating plan

If you're looking for a heart-healthy eating plan, the Mediterranean diet might be right for you. The Mediterranean diet incorporates the basics of healthy eating, plus a splash of flavorful olive oil and perhaps a glass of good red wine, among other components characterizing the traditional cooking style of countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

Want A Long Life With A Healthy Heart? Here's What To Eat (And What Not To)

But knowing the fact that what we eat, drink and take can affect our cardiovascular health and actually knowing accurate information on WHAT to eat, drink and take are very different things—and misconceptions are everywhere for that second one. That led a group of cardiologists and other physicians to publish a review of the evidence on what does and doesn’t reduce cardiovascular risks and contribute to heart health.

Why Almost Everything Dean Ornish Says about Nutrition Is Wrong. UPDATED: With Dean Ornish's Response

A critique of the diet guru's views on high-protein diets, followed by a response from Ornish and a reply from the author.