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By HELEN W. SMITH
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
The Rappahannock Unit of the American Heart Association recently kicked off its annual dinner to begin “February is Heart Month.” The board members treated all the volunteers who will be collecting donations during Heart Month to dinner. Since we try to “practice what we preach,” Maybelle Gilkey and I, who were the volunteer coordinators for the dinner, selected several recipes from the American Heart Association cookbook and adapted several of our own to make a hearthealthy menu.
Goals of the AHA diet
The three most important contributors to heart attack are a high blood cholesterol level, high blood pressure, and cigarette smoking. Other important risk factors are diabetes, overweight, lack of exercise, and a family history of early heart disease. If you learn to control your risk factors now, you may prevent heart attack in the future.
The AHA plan outlines wholesome eating for a healthy, active lifestyle, while reducing the amount of cholesterol in your blood to the level safest for your heart. The AHA diet recommendations are:
• Meet your daily needs of protein, vitamins, minerals, and other
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