Fight heart disease with a plant-based diet?

Here is a post from the Huffington post about fighting heart disease.
I like Huffingtonpost.com's living section , they have some good stuff there.

Still here

Wow , Its been a while since I have written anything.
Anyway I have been eating good but recently I have started eating lots of fried , sweet and calorie rich food , have to cut back.
I am drinking a lot of Green tea , hopefully its helping.
I am really not working out at all, have to do something about that. With the holiday season coming up there will lots of eating I am sure.

I should be either cutting back on unhealthy food or exercise more , ideally both of these right?
Anyway 1 of the 2 should be good for now.
I will start posing some good links soon.

A good article about how Humans are Natural Vegetarian

I found this Huffington Post article pretty interesting , click on the link to read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html

Sea Salt

A little more digging on Sodium/Salt and I came across lots of Sea Salt fans.
It seems Sea Salt and especially Celtic Sea Salt is different than ordinary table salt and has lots of minerals.
I have never tried it but from what I read , there are people promoting this a lot. They claim its not bad for anyone, not even people with high Blood Pressure.
Check out this website, http://www.celticseasalt.com/ , and also google sea salt or Celtic sea salt.
I am planning to try this out.

Sodium levels in food

Its very usual for doctors to ask patients with high blood pressure to cut on sodium/salt.So when I was asked to do the same I started avoiding salted stuff. But now when I am checking the sodium content in day to day food , I am kinda shocked.
See I was avoiding the food which is know for high sodium/salt. But when I checked the sodium in the bread I buy from local grocery stores, I was surprised.
I slice of any bread contains minimum 7% sodium and it easily goes up to 11%.
This is just bread mind you. I eat a lot of it , so if I take a bread with 10% sodium and east 4 slices, that's it I have already consumed almost half my allowed limit.
Also this limit is for normal people with no issues. For people with high BP it is supposed to be lower than that.
I like some vegan vegetarian patties , they are tasty and have high protein , same with vegan hot dogs/Tofu etc. But the sodium in these is pretty high. The patty I like from Boca has 18% sodium in it.

So if I eat 1 patty with 2 slices of bread with some cheese or lets say any spread , that's it I am easily way 50% of recommended daily sodium levels.

This is just too much of sodium/salt . Just imagine eating outside for more than 50% of a week.
You won;t even know how much you are consuming if you eat to hotels/sandwich shops etc.

Everyone likes to add sodium as that's what makes food taste better.
So I am now eating mostly at home , very occasionally do I eat outside. In fact I have a bread maker at home and that's what I should do , make my low sodium bread at home.

Its very usual for doctors to ask patients with high blood pressure to cut on sodium/salt.

Hydroxycut being recalled?

According to this article , the popular supplement Hydroxycut is being to forced to be recall 14 of its products.
Click here for the story.

I am someone who takes supplements every now and then , but I am skeptical of those who promise too much .
I think there is no substitute for proper eating and proper excersize when it comes to health . So trying to lose pounds too fast with some product is surely going to not be helpful and if it is then there might be some huge side-effects .
Heck even if you excersize too much you get burnt out .
Slow and steady wins the race .

This is not to say that do not work hard to reach your objective. But do not expect results overnight. A supplement is just that, a supplement. It will help achieveing a goal, it will not achieve it inspite of bad habits.

Example they say a glass of wine will help you live longer, now if you take a lot of glasses every day to speed it up, its not gonna work, it will make you an alcoholic .

So eating right and having an active lifestyle helps a lot. Does not mean you have to eat only salads everyday , but it means you have to eat smart.

Green Tea

I am hearing a lot of good things about Green Tea and in fact I started drinking it after reading a bit.
Click here for a site which explains the benefits ( not just a random site but university of Maryland medical center ).

Now take a look at this site which says the reserach is in prelimnary stages.

I guess what they are saying is , they do not see immediate huge effects. But what the reasoning is that in many eastern countries people who have been having green tea for a prolonged period show that the health benefits of Green tea are great.

In standard research , it shows no harm shows a little positive effect, so I guess I will keep sipping my green tea, with some honey or sugar to make it drinkable.
Butu I like the Flavia Jasmine green tea which I can have without anything.