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\"\"I think I’m like most people…I want to be healthy and I want to help my family be healthy too. So finding tips and tools to use to aid us in this goal is always welcome. February is American Heart Month<\/a>, sponsored by the American Heart Association, which is designed to bring awareness to the importance of heart health. Eating healthy foods is the most important step you can take to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. However, it’s the overall pattern of your choices that counts. So, the more often you make good choices in your meal decisions, the better off your heart and you will be.\"\"<\/p>\n

Recently, the American Heart Association’s dietary recommendations evolved from nutrient-based to food-based dietary patterns. For instance instead of focusing on the number of grams of carbohydrates, they recommend focusing on the types of carbohydrates that you are consuming. This change resulted from food-based scientific research on the importance of specific nutrients found in foods, while also making it easier for people to follow. For example,\u00a0 an average adult should eat 4 cups of red\/orange vegetables per week, a cup and a half of dark green vegetables per week, 8 ounces of fish, a cup and a half of fruit per day, etc.<\/p>\n

Working alongside the American Heart Association, DinnerTime has developed its Heart-Healthy meals\u00a0to\u00a0fulfill these AHA recommendations. To receive balanced heart-healthy meal recommendations, simply choose Heart-Healthy<\/em><\/a> as your dietary style in your profile. To learn more about the power of your profiles click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

DinnerTime’s Heart-Healthy dietary style promotes nutrient-dense foods that conform to AHA\u2019s weekly requirements for dinner. \u00a0Over the course of a week, we suggest meals with a variety of foods to conform to all of the AHA recommendations. We also limit\u00a0processed foods, saturated fat, sodium, and added sugar. See the delicious examples below.<\/p>\n

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The foods promoted by our Heart-Healthy dietary style include:<\/h3>\n