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How macronutrients and micronutrients come together to help or harm your heart and arteries The best approach to heart health is a diet built around maximizing the foods that help and minimizing the foods that harm. Understanding the role of the macronutrients — protein, good fats and bad fats, good carbohydrates and bad carbohydrates — [...]

Connecticut Food Executives Bring Delicious, Heart-Healthy Living to New Levels April 5, 2011 Hamden, CT When former Connecticut chocolate executive Rob Leighton discovered he had high cholesterol, he was faced with the prospect of a strict, bland diet; a lifetime of medication; or possibly both. Not surprisingly, Leighton, also known as the Food Passionisto, found [...]

Bean is the common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed. The whole young pods of bean plants are very tender if picked before they are ripe and dry. They may be eaten cooked or raw. http://tinyurl.com/natural-mediterranean

Figs, with their unique texture and taste, figure in a number of Mediterranean diet dishes.  They can be enjoyed as they are or as an ingredient to a lot of Mediterranean recipes.  Aside from being lusciously sweet, figs have a complex texture due to the smoothness of their skin, the chewiness of fig flesh, and [...]