Heart Health
Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread
Since lifestyle factors have been shown to play an important role in the health of your heart, it is important to focus on reducing risk factors – such as smoking, excessive stress, being overweight and carrying extra fat around the waist – and introducing positive factors that can help maintain your heart health.
Combining physical activity with a healthy, balanced diet, which is low in saturated fat and high in wholegrains and fibre, fruit and vegetables and cutting back in salt is recommended to help maintain heart health1.
An easy way to start taking care of your heart is to make small changes to your daily eating pattern. It can be as simple as changing your daily bread to Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread. Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread has been specially developed with nutritionists to include wholesome ingredients that can help maintain heart health2.
How does Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread contribute to heart health?
Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread contains the following (click on each link to learn more about how it contributes to your health and wellbeing):
- Beta-glucan from oats to naturally help lower cholesterol absorption*
- Omega 3 ALA for healthy heart function
- 30% reduced sodium^ to help maintain circulatory health
- Wholegrain fibre for your heart's wellbeing
- Low GI for heart health
Want to know more?
1 National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand 2007. Reducing Risk in Heart Disease: Guidelines for preventing cardiovascular events in people with coronary heart disease.
2 Flight & Clifton 2006. Cereal grains and legumes in the prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke: a review of the literature. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 60:1145-1159.
* Two slices of Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread provides 0.75g of beta glucan soluble fibre which is 25% of the 3g, suggested daily intake. The inclusions of oats as part of a diet low in saturated fat and a healthy lifestyle may help reduce blood cholesterol. References: US Food & Drug Administration 2003, UK Join Health Claims Initiative, 2004.
^ Contains 30% less sodium compared to previous Bürgen® Wholegrains & Oats Bread Formulation.