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Exclusive Recipes from Chef Marcus and Our Dietitians

At Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating, we believe that nutritious food should also be exciting, flavorful, and fun. We're thrilled to share a special collection of recipes created by Executive Chef Marcu...

Are Eggs Bad for Cholesterol? New Research Says It’s Time to Rethink the Myth

For years, eggs have lived in dietary limbo. Some hailed them as a superfood packed with protein and essential nutrients. Others warned against their high cholesterol content and potential impact on h...

Is a No Salt Diet Healthy?

While too much sodium is often highlighted as a health risk, consuming too little can also have serious repercussions on your health. With February marking American Heart Month, we are going to take a...

Let’s EAT Fish… NOT just talk about it!

The health benefits of eating fish should give you the motivation to consume it... NOT just talk about it! Most people talk about the importance of eating fatty fish and the health benefits of eating...

MIND Diet: How Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating Can Help

A new dietary acronym we might start getting used to hearing, as it relates to brain health and nutrition, is appropriately known as the MIND diet. Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerativ...

American Heart Association Rates Popular Diets

The American Heart Association (AHA) recently released a scientific statement looking at the heart healthiness of popular diets. The report discusses how misinformation about different dietary trends...

Lowering Your Risk for Stroke and High Blood Pressure

Healthy eating and regular physical activity are important steps to take to help keep yourself healthy and prevent diseases, such as high blood pressure and stroke. High blood pressure and strokes can...

For the Love of Your Heart: Chocolate and Cherries

Valentine’s Day is almost here and if you or your sweetie are focusing on improving your health and wellness, you may not be interested in the traditional heart-shaped candies, chocolates, or di...

Improving Your Cardiovascular Health One Step at a Time

Among adults, only about 20% had high cardiovascular health. The other 80% had moderate to low cardiovascular health. What is even scarier is the results of the children. Roughly 30% had high cardio h...

The 10 Do’s and Don’ts For Heart Health

At Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating, we take heart health seriously. Along with our heart-healthy meals that meet the guidelines from the American Heart Association, we strive to motiva...

Best and Worst Foods For Your Heart

Heart disease is considered a ‘silent killer’ of women and coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death globally. We must help get the word out about ways to combat the disease. Wh...

Be Good to Your Heart with 4 Heart Healthy Tips

February is American Heart Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease and promoting simple lifestyle changes that can make a big difference in preventing heart-related issues....

5 Steps to Living Better with a Congestive Heart Failure Diagnosis

Finding out you or a loved one has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF) can be overwhelming. While there is no cure for CHF, there is a lot that you can do to control it and continue to...

4 “Functional” Foods That Can Help Lower Your Cholesterol

Functional foods are foods you can add to your diet that provide a potentially positive effect on health beyond basic nutrition. With heart disease being the leading cause of death for American adults...

6 Foods to Eat Now to Promote Heart Health

February is American Heart Health Month and now is a great time discuss some of the best foods to promote heart health. These 6 foods are not only heart healthy, but delicious too! Try incorporat...

Healthy Dietary Fats Help Heart Health

Good news if you have high cholesterol, you have a new tool to combat heart disease: healthy dietary fats. Yes, fats to fight heart disease! According to a new American Heart Association (AHA) advisor...

Foods Cause Nearly Half Heart Disease Deaths

Do you eat a steady diet of bacon, bologna, hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks, salty foods and sugary drinks? If so, then you may want to start cutting back on those foods and start eating nuts and seeds,...

Sugar and Heart Disease Link

Scientists have come full circle in the last 60 years about the connection between sugar and heart disease risk. The link was uncovered at that time, however it was not disclosed, and now the link bet...