What can we do to improve our heart health? Eat more fruits and vegetables

What preventive/healthy choices can we add to our lives to prevent/delay the onset of heart disease?

Let’s begin by adding 5 servings of fruits and vegetables to our daily food intake.  Colorful vegetables and fruits bring important antioxidants called flavonoids and carotenoids.  Anti-oxidants (another fairly recent topic of discussion) are substances which our bodies use to protect itself from free radicals.  What are free radicals?  My medical dictionary calls them “unstable compounds whose behavior is characterized by rapid reactions.  Free radicals are often blamed for such physical phenomena as cell degeneration and malfunction.  Their full role in physical health is not understood.”  

What does all that mean?  If we add colorful fruits and vegetables to our daily diet, we give our bodies more substances our bodies can use to repair damage and heal injuries.  Now I struggle with this one also.  Even though I like fruits and vegetables, I do not always eat enough.  We have been making an effort to add fruits and vegetables to our diet.  I invite you to join me in this simple life-style change of eating more fruits and vegetables.