Your Heart’s Nutritional Needs

A post by Blanche Scharf http://www.yourhealthupdates.com I have been studying natural healing modalities for the last 25 years. In that time I have had the privilege of working with some of the greatest minds in Natural Healing including Naturopaths, Scientists, and Energy Healers. I have seen people miraculously heal from all kinds of dis-ease thru non-invasive methods. Personally, I have experienced all kinds of diets from Macrobiotics to Raw Foods. Now is a very important time to start sharing this health information with as many people as possible, so people can make well informed decisions about their health and not fall victim to a sickcare system based on profit, rather than one of supporting wholeness, compassion and love To see more posts by Blanche Scharf, click here

Your Heart’s nutritional needs can be met by a diet of whole foods. The realization that our heart needs  vitamins, and minerals is not well understood. The overall consensus is that a heart condition such as a heart attack, heart failure, atrium fibrillation, stroke, heart valve problems, and infections are just circumstantial occurrences. The aging process is blamed, along with stress, and genes. What is left out is that healthy bodies are produced by good nutrition, our hearts are no different.

A healthy heart program is not that different than a healthy lifestyle. It is known among holistic practitioners that the heart and circulatory system is dependent on, and responds to nutrition. The energy dense foods, with high nutritional value are the ones that supplement and support muscular movement, nerves, cell health, and immune function. The heart is a muscle and can recover in the same way muscles do. Muscle strength is not a product of a pharmaceutical.  Pharmaceutical drugs can and do cause a loss of nutrients, that are vital to heart health.

Your heart is made up of cells that depend on nutrients. The low fat craze is worrisome, because eliminating healthy fats will cause more problems than it will fix. The type of low- fat foods on the market are high-tech, nutritional robbers, that will have the opposite effect. Low-fat diets are low in fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A and D, plus others. You need good fat for your body to be able to absorb the many nutrients from plant food. Healthy people around the world do not count the fat grams in every piece of food.

Magnesium, Calcium, iodine, and B complex are important to the heart muscle, and normal heartbeat. These are not the ones that come in a capsule, because those are not going to be assimilated. What supplies the body with what it needs comes from whole foods. The thyroid is dependent on iodine, but so is the body both dependent on thyroid function and iodine. Remember it takes awhile before the body shows signs of poor nutrition, and that is one of the reasons it appears as if heart disease increases with age.

Irregular heartbeats can be caused by a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium can be obtained from wheat brand, wheat germ, cashews, sesame seeds, millet, wild rice, brown rice, greens, and dried figs etc. It is referred to as a natural calcium channel-blocker. Magnesium can lower blood pressure, and helps the heart function.

Vitamin P available from citrus fruits, aids in absorption of vitamin C from our food supply. Capillary health is promoted by the action of this nutrient. Vitamin P flavenoids have the ability to decrease inflammation, improve blood flow, and strengthens blood vessels. They aid in the prevention of coronary disease because they also combat free radicals, and improve immunity. A diet high in vitamin P may decrease the chance of heart disease. Citrus fruits are full of Flavonoids, which are known help with conditions from hay fever to cancer. By reducing cellular damage caused by free radicals, they are a holistic therapy.

This is a list of some of the foods that contain flavonoids: grapefruit, oranges, apples, apricots, pears, peaches, tomatoes, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, red plums, strawberries, red cabbage, onions, parsley, prunes, and rhubarb. Bioflavonoid helps lower cholesterol levels. Bioflavonoids have an antibacterial effect and promote good circulation.

Omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oil, has an effect on heart function, including decreasing the risk of arrhythmias, decreases triglyceride levels, and reduces the growth rate of atherosclerotic plaque, and may slightly lower blood pressure. We are talking about substances that help you stay both active and healthy, when we are talking about your heart’s nutritional needs.

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