Maintaining a healthy diet is the practice of making choices about what to eat with the intent of improving or maintaining good health. Usually this involves consuming necessary nutrients by eating the appropriate amounts from all of the food groups, including an adequate amount of water. Since human nutrition is complex, a healthy diet may vary widely, subject to an individual's genetic makeup, environment, and health. For around 20% of the planet's population, lack of food and malnutrition are the main impediments to healthy eating; people in developed countries have the opposite problem, and are more concerned about obesity.

The following article contains a solid list of essential foods that you should incorporate into your diet to maintain a healthy heart. If you have some alternative suggestions for heart healthy foods by all means please submit your suggestions at the end with a few comments.

This has a slight twist. It starts out discussing love and the need for a heart healthy diet (in real terms) while having a slight, unexpected and light-hearted twist toward romantic interests.

The ABCs of Eight Delicious Heart Healthy Decisions is the one week diet plan that will get you 1/3 of the way there-to a heart healthy diet. February is heart conscious month. Start yours today!

Heart disease is one of the major causes of death in the developed world and a huge amount of research has been carried out into its causes.Good diet is considered to be one of the major factors in the prevention of heart attacks. Here we discuss what you should and should not be eating to minimize your risk of heart failure.

The Mediterranean diet was first publicized in 1945 by Ancel Keys, an American doctor who was stationed in Salerno, Italy. However, it didn’t receive too much attention until the 1990s.