Health Correspondent Dr. Emily Senay has more. A good diet is essential for a healthy heart. Without it, your weight and cholesterol levels can become dangerously high.
Doctors urge patients to keep their cholesterol levels under control.
But that's not always easy. Now, food manufactures are improving on nature by adding ingredients that may be good for your heart to the foods you love. Like eggs, for example. We boil them, fry them and scramble them, but for many years doctors thought that eggs were bad for the heart. They've been prohibited from heart-healthy diets.