AHA!
This non-profit organization focused on fighting heart disease and stroke. AHA!
What is the American Heart Association?
The AHA focuses on incorporating (blank) fats into your diet.
What are healthy fats?
The AHA focuses on limiting (blank) fats into your diet.
What are unhealthy fats?
The AHA recommends eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. You should have these many cups daily.
What are 4 1/2 cups?
These healthy grains contain the entire grain, which is made up of bran, germ and endosperm.
What are whole grains?
This type of diet is key to preventing and managing cardiovascular disease.
What is a heart-healthy diet?
These are a type of healthy fat that may appear on a nutrition label.
What are unsaturted fats?
These are a type of unhealthy fat that may appear on a nutrition label. Name 2.
What are saturated fats and trans fats?
When choosing canned fruits, check the nutrition label for added (blank). Choose fruit that’s canned in water, its own juice or in light syrup.
What is sugar?
Look for this; a mark that will help you find packaged foods that can be part a healthy eating pattern. This red and white icon on the package means the food meets specific nutrition requirements for certification.
What is the AHA Heart Check?
This diet is a generic term based on the traditional eating habits in the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
The AHA recommends this type of dairy when following a heart healthy diet.
What are low-fat or fat-free dairy?
These foods contain higher levels of saturated fats and should be avoided or limited. Name 2.
What are Beef, Lamb, Pork, Poultry (especially with skin) Beef fat (tallow), Lard and cream, Butter, Cheese, Ice cream, Coconut, Palm oil, Palm kernel oil, Some baked and fried foods?
When choosing canned vegetables, look at the nutrition label for sodium content. Low sodium choices contain fewer than (blank) mg of sodium per serving.
What is 140?
The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 mg a day and optimal goal of no more than (blank) mg a day for most adults; especially adults with hypertension orheart disease.
What is 1500mg?
This diet is designed to help you manage blood pressure. It focuses on healthy food sources.
What is the D.A.S.H. diet?
The AHA recommends this type of protein source when following a heart healthy diet.
What are lean animal sourced proteins or low-fat plant-based proteins?
These foods contain higher levels of trans fats and should be avoided or limited. Name 2.
What are fried foods like doughnuts, and baked goods including cakes, pie crusts, biscuits, frozen pizza, cookies, crackers, and stick margarines and other spreads?
Avoid frozen vegetables with added (blank) to ensure a lower sodium option.
What are sauces and seasonings?
•Whole grains contain the entire grain, which is made up of bran, germ and endosperm. Name 2.
• Refined grains have been milled (ground into flour or meal) in a way that removes the bran and germ. Name 2
What are whole wheat flour, brown rice, wild rice, oats, whole grain corn meal?
What are white or enriched flour, white rice, parboiled rice, cream of wheat?
This diet is focused on plant-centric plates and meatless meals.
What is a Vegan/Vegetarian diet?
The AHA recommends this type of oil when following a heart healthy diet.
What are non-tropical vegetable oils?
This is the primary dietary source for trans fats in processed foods.
What are “partially hydrogenated oils."?
Fresh fruits and vegetables offer the best/most health benefits. True or false.
What is false? Fresh, Frozen or Canned Fruit and Vegetables: All Can Be Healthy Choices
Limit daily added sugar to these many grams for men; this many grams for women.
What are 36 grams and 25 grams?