For a healthy heart.For a healthy heart The American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. this week released its latest guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for heart-healthy eating. New recommendations include limiting alcohol intake to 15 percent of total calories, not to exceed 50 milliliters (1.7 ounces) of ethanol per day; and restricting protein to 15 percent of total calories, primarily to hold down meat consumption. The association also beefed up some of its 1978 recommendations, advising that calories from total fat should represent less than 30 percent of all calories, with saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be accounting for no more than 10 percent of total calories. Cholesterol intake should be no more than 100 milligrams per 1,000 calories, not to exceed 300 mg per day. And rather than just suggesting avoidance of excessive sodium intake, the association now recommends limiting sodium to 1 gram per 1,000 calories, not to exceed 3 grams per day. Guidelines are based on a total calorie calorie, abbr. cal, unit of heat energy in the metric system. The measurement of heat is called calorimetry. The calorie, or gram calorie, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of pure water 1°C;. intake adequate to maintain ideal weight according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s 1959 tables. |
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