In honor of Valentine’s Day, Heart health Awareness Month and all things heart-related let’s talk about romantic, heart-healthy recipes you can make for or with your significant other this Valentines Day.
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It’s week two yay welcome back it’s week two of getting back on our game how did last week go were you successful at implementing the small tools that we outlined well in honor of Valentine’s Day I wanted to make a video focused on heart healthy foods and maybe some
Dinner ideas that we can have for our gallentine Valentine I’m Dr Destiny Grant licensed naturopathic physician and expert in natural and lifestyle medicine if you’re just here to get an idea of romantic dinners that you can cook with your special person go ahead and skip to the dinner ideas Tim stamp
But for the rest of us let’s first talk about how what we eat affects our heart I feel like most of us are conditioned to think about low salt and low fat when we think of heart healthy foods right for me I actually think about sugar what in particular blood sugar because here’s
The thing sugar in the bloodstream it’s like sandpaper on your blood vessel so we have a blood vessel it’s a specific size around and then we have damage to the blood vessels and we have our cholesterol that kind of comes like chewed up bubble gum and spackle it
On there to to patch up the abrasiveness from the sugar so now that blood vessel that’s supposed to be this big around is getting to be this big around and this big around and this big around on the inside because of the continued damage the pressure going through something
This big is so much higher than that same Force going through something this big on top of that you’re also ending up with injured arteries right so this is actually how blood sugar ends up with microvascular damage meaning damage to those very itty bitty tiny vessels in the body usually like in
The fingertips hip and Toes things like that and you end up with like numbness and burning in your hands and feet some diabetics sound off in the comments cuz you know what I’m talking about right of course major ways to improve your health and specifically heart health is going
To be diet and exercise right weight loss plays a role too but even the American Heart Association recommends diet and exercise as the first line treatment for heart disease like high blood pressure and things like that all right we had some technical difficulties but if you’ve watched this
Far thank you for staying tuned and let’s just continue the discussion so how does exercise lower blood sugar it is quite simple really exercise is going to work the muscles the muscles need sugar to work effectively so the harder you work the muscles the more sugar they’re going to require and they’re
Going to pull it from the blood exercise Low’s blood sugar make sense hit the Thumbs Up Button if that made sense or drop me maybe a question in the comments below if you need uh more clarification on that I think I’m going to be doing a Q&A video pretty consistently just
Gathering all the questions that you guys throw in the comments and then I’ll just put them all up in one uh question and answer session so if you don’t get something make a comment down below and I’ll be sure to get to it if we structure the way we eat to remove the
Things that hurt the heart and add in more of the things that help the heart then we basically set ourselves up for more successful life healthwise foods that harm the heart would be of course refined Foods um like we were mentioning before things with a lot of excess sugar fats like trans fats
Specifically that the body doesn’t process very well and things that help the heart would be things that are high in antioxidants high in heart healthy fats like Omega 3s and foods high in fiber you’ve probably heard me say this before I wouldn’t start really with reducing salt intake but make sure that
You’re having balanced electrolytes how do you even know where to start when you’re trying to find you know healthy heart healthy options you can start with a simple search of foods high in and then you add whatever you’re looking for so Foods highend Plus Omega-3s food high in soble
Dietary fiber foods high in antioxidants just as an example and drop a red heart in the comments if you love Pinterest as much as me I scoured Pinterest for good dinner ideas when I was getting ready to make this video but there’s so much on there I focused on meals that were high
In fiber High in antioxidants and high in heart healthy fats I am going to make a separate video though where we go through them together cuz this one is already pretty long as it is I’ll list them below but I was thinking salmon with some quinoa maybe
And a nice kale salad with red onions ooh pickled red onions um some pecans Maybe and even a little razzled Dazzle of pomegranate kernels that sounds so good second dinner plate is going to be grass-fed beef so you can do steak you can do like a Mongolian beef you can do
A beef stew then add roasted potatoes on the side and a sight of asparagus that sounds delicious I want to eat right now somebody come cook for me and my last idea is is an Asian inspired beef same grass-fed grass finish beef but this time we’re going to do beef strips We’re
Going to do some crispy brussel sprouts and a nice side of wild rice that sounds amazing so now you and your significant other can cook together or you can just cook for your special someone these ideas are heart healthy guilt free and even if they’re not remember you plan
For this 8020 rule right one day does not have to mess up your entire New Year’s resolution or your health Journey but if you want to see the videos as much as I want to see the videos jump over to the next in the playlist it’s
Going to be a reaction video let’s talk about it see you in the next one