Health professionals have long recommended maintaining good eating habits so that the body enjoys optimal conditions. This will help to have a good quality of life and an organ like the heart to become stronger and stronger.
“The heart is an organ about the size of a fist. It is made up of muscle tissue and pumps blood throughout the body. Blood is carried throughout the body through blood vessels, tubes called arteries and veins. The process of transporting blood throughout the body is called circulation. Together, the heart and blood vessels make up the cardiovascular system,” explains the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As mentioned, diet is key to keeping the heart healthy. For the vital organ to enjoy good health, products laden with sugar, sodium and harmful fats must be eliminated from the diet.
In turn, different foods of natural origin should be added to the diet, such as lean meats, seeds, legumes, fruits, vegetables, among others.
Regarding the last food group mentioned, vegetables, there is one in particular that helps eliminate heart-related problems. According to The Washington Post, this is the red tomato.
“It has been shown that diet plays a determining role in the prevention and development of cardiovascular disease. And eating tomatoes, a vegetable high in lycopene, could prevent and reverse the buildup of fat in the arteries and hardening of the arterial wall.”points to the portal.
“According to him American Journal of Clinical Nutritionpeople with a higher concentration of lycopene in their adipose tissues have a lower risk of thickening of the inner arterial wall and myocardial infarction”, reports the site.
The red tomato can be added to the diet in salads and can be eaten at lunch and dinner. Its consumption should be moderate.
More benefits of red tomato
According to the website Palace of Vilane Galicia, These are other benefits of a vegetable like tomato:
1. Protect eyesight. Tomato is an excellent resource for maintaining good visual health, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to its high vitamin A content.
Likewise, tomatoes contain lutein and zeaxanthin, nutrients that protect both the macula of the eye, responsible for visual detection, and the lens, responsible for focusing against the oxidizing effects of light.
2. Regulates intestinal transit. “Its high fiber content regulates intestinal transit and prevents many of the diseases or dysfunctions that affect the gastrointestinal organs, such as chronic constipation. Now, to take full advantage of this property of the tomato, try to eat it with the skin on and with plenty of water”.
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