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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 dinner o...

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...

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 motivate eve...

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. Why not high...

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 t...

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 adul...

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) adviso...

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...

Seattle Sutton’s 10 Tips for Heart Health

With February winding down, I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to discuss heart health with you since it is American Heart Month.Heart disease is the deadliest disease in our country and accounts fo...

Heart Health: What Foods You Should Be Eating to Protect Your Heart

Heart disease is often called the ‘silent killer’ and kills more people in the United States than all forms of cancer combined. You may be surprised to learn, 1 in 31 American women die from breast ca...

Half of All Heart Disease Deaths Could be Prevented

Today in the U.S. preventable risk factors, such as obesity and smoking, still account for 50 percent of deaths from cardiovascular disease among adults from 45 to 79 years old. Imagine, in this day a...