The essential elements to improve the health of your heart are diet, exercise, smoking and stress.
Blueberries, Cranberries, Strawberries - Fight Heart Disease
Berries such as blueberries, cranberries, strawberries and raspberries are rich in disease-fighting phytochemicals that can prevent and even reverse serious diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer and even help lower cholesterol levels.
The key is to be eating these berries in their whole fruit form rather than trying to eat processed berries or drink fruit juices made from berries. To get the healing phytonutrients, you must get the berries in the freshest form possible, raw berries, right off the bush or straight from the grocery store.
What is interesting about these fruits is why they are such powerful disease fighters. Berries contain a variety of phytochemicals and antioxidants many of these are what give the fruits their colour but they also add a sense of flavour to the berries. These phytonutrients are powerful compounds for supporting optimum human health, in fact they are far more powerful than any medicine in terms of providing healthy benefits without dangerous side effects.
There is a strong correlation between the colours of foods and drinks and your body's desire for them. That's because in nature, foods with strong saturated colours such as berries are extremely good for you, so the body possesses a built in wisdom to choose foods that have deep, rich, saturated colors.
Pay attention to this innate desire by choosing foods with these colours, that includes berries and vegetables.