Useful info on healthy eating and heart by Dr Tan Yong Seng, a heart surgeon in the Straits Times on 1 October 2012, Monday

Useful info for your health. The following is an extract from an interview with a heart surgeon Tan Yong Seng in

http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/life/story/saved-sars-20121001#2

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"Exercise can drop the risk of heart disease by 14 per cent, but eating healthily can drop the risk of heart disease by 30 per cent," he adds.

He says he watches his diet and eats more greens and less carbohydrates, especially white rice. He also cuts down on his salt and sugar intake.

At hawker centres, he chooses healthy options such as fish porridge and has char kway teow only twice a year from a stall in Hong Lim Food Centre because the owners know he does not take lard.

He indulges in a steak once a year, at his brother-in-law's place during Christmas, but he makes it a point to eat five bowls of salad before eating the meat.
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