What is a heart-healthy diet?

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us What is a heart-healthy diet? This week: What, after all the controversy we've seen in recent years, is a heart healthy diet? Six simple rules you can follow. Also, thyroid disease and the heart, the new "miracle" cholesterol drugs, and more.  Richard N. Fogoros, M.D. Heart Disease Expert What is a heart-healthy diet? With all the conflicting information out there, a "heart healthy diet" is becoming more difficult to figure out. Here are six simple rules that can help. READ NOW Share How Does Thyroid Disease Affect the Heart? Thyroid disease can have numerous effects on your heart. Read about thyroid disease and the heart. READ NOW Share PCSK9 inhibitors for cholesterol The PCSK9 inhibitors offer a brand new way to reduce LDL cholesterol levels. But until we know more about these drugs, we should curb our enthusiasm. READ NOW Share Statins and memory loss While some insist that statins produce cognitive disorders, studies to date have failed to prove an association between statins and memory loss. Learn more about this purported statin side effect. READ NOW Share The Secret Cardiology Facebook Page Here is a Facebook page featuring issues related to your heart, that your cardiologist would rather not talk about.    READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • 17 Whole Grains You Should Be Eating • Celebrate Cinco de Mayo the Low-Carb Way • 7 Household Items to Help You Do Your Home Exercises Program • How Regular Fasting Can Improve Your Health • How "Mysterious" is Fibromyalgia Pain, Really? • How to Eat Smart at a Buffet • Weight Loss & Fibromyalgia: The Challenges • 31 Wheat-Free Recipes You'll Want to Make Today Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Heart Disease newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved