Heart-healthy foods follow three rules: reducing sugar and saturated fat intake and pushing more for fiber-enriched nutrients. The level of cholesterol is increasing among kids for a sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy food habits and lack of physical exercise. Alarmed by that, nutritionists suggest that, the goal of making heart-healthy food is it will attract kids as well as it’s healthy to eat.
Use cookie cutters to make healthy sandwiches in fun shapes. (To make heart-healthy sandwiches, use whole-grain bread, lean lunchmeat and vegetables. Avoid regular mayonnaise, salami, bologna, liverwurst and pepperoni, which are all high in saturated fat.)