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February is American Heart Month - a time to raise awareness about heart disease and living a healthy lifestyle. Â As a company that feed families each and every day, it’s an important time for us to spread the word about the value of good nutrition in preventing heart disease. Â Our commitment to heart health can […]
Here’s a different take on “Fresh Ideas” - a great article on that issue of which type of fruits and veggies you should choose. We’ve discussed this before on Food for Thought but it never hurts to get a fresh reminder (sorry - couldn’t help the pun)!
Fruits and Veggies: Fresh, Canned, […]
As American Heart Month draws to a close, we want to encourage everyone to remember that focusing on your heart health should be a year-round, every day effort.
We hope you found the articles posted this month on Food for Thought helpful towards your own personal heart health. It’s been educational and inspirational […]
The idea of ”good” and “bad” fats in food is quite confusing.  At Let’s Dish!, our commitment to our customers is that our monthly menu of dinners will always be trans fat free and contain at least four heart-healthy meals. (During American Heart Month, we had thirteen!)  We can offer such heathful choices because of work by our menu development team as well the fact you prepare […]
We have all heard of superfoods. Everyone is talking about them. If they paid me a dollar for every time I saw them on a talk show, I’d be rich! So what are they?
Superfoods range from various types of fruits and vegetables to spices to nuts to herbal supplements. They are believed to have higher […]
If you don’t - or aren’t sure - you are not alone.  Just 1 in 4 Americans know the early physical warnings of a heart attack - and what to do next, according to a new goverment report.Â
For your own benefit and to change this “alarmingly low” statistic as described by the CDC, let’s all take a minute […]
Here’s a postscript to last week’s post on sodium and heart health. On Monday, ABC Health News reported that those cute cans of Campbell’s soup - you know, the ones with the kids’ characters on the can - are getting a little healthier: “Campbell’s Lowering Sodium in Kids Soups” (by Geoff Mulvihill, Feb 18, 2008).
Now these 12 Campbell’s soups will have […]
Most of us think that fat is the enemy of heart health, but did you know that sodium - yes, salt - can be seriously harmful to your health? A recent USA Today article by Heather Terwilliger, “Salt intake brings new levels of alarm” (Feb 10, 2008), emphasizes just how dangerous salt can be.
At Let’s […]
Living a heart healthy lifestyle involves several factors, including diet, exercise, weight management, smoking cessation, and being knowledgeable of your risk factors…just to name a few. Let’s briefly look at some of these factors:
Balancing calories taken in with calories burned is a sure recipe for weight management. A healthy diet is based on fruits, vegetables […]
Show your support for the fight against heart disease and the American Heart Association by wearing RED today!
You’ll join millions of other men, women and children (even cities!) who will support the cause by wearing red on National Wear Red Day.  And, if you only have a few spare minutes on February 1st, here are two quick ways to encourage heart […]
It would be hard to miss all the heart icons in our stores and on the Let’s Dish! website as we “Go Red” in February. As Jeremy wrote yesterday, we’ve pledged to learn more about healthy living and do all we can to prevent heart disease.
And, we can do a lot - nutritious meals and heart-health awareness to thousands of families to start. We partnered with the American […]
February is American Heart Month. It’s an important time at Let’s Dish!, and of course, an important time at Food For Thought, the Let’s Dish! blog.
Heart disease is this country’s #1 killer, claiming over 900,000 American lives annually. Fortunately, and thanks in a large part to the great work of the American Heart Association (AHA), […]
