Fight Hardening Arteries with These 5 Veggies

By Sally Finder-Koziol

New research confirms it: You’d better eat your veggies. A study has found that a mixture of five common vegetables—broccoli, green beans, corn, peas, and carrots—reduced hardening of the arteries by 38 percent in mice compared with animals eating a nonvegetable diet.

“While everyone knows that eating more vegetables is supposed to be good for you, no one had shown before that it can actually inhibit the development of atherosclerosis,” lead researcher Michael Adams, D.V.M., says. “This suggests how a diet high in vegetables may help prevent heart attacks and strokes.”

Source: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center