February is the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Heart Healthy Month, and Concentra joins in promoting this effort to help everyone eat healthier.

Why focus on snacks? Because too many diets tend to focus only on meals and don’t consider the amount of excess calories consumed from snacks. For example, many diet plans conform to the AHA’s recommendations for meals: limit salt and butter, avoid foods high in fats and calories, avoid whole milk, etc.

But what about between meals? After eating a healthy meal, we often become hungry and are tempted to snack on foods that may not be the best for our health.

It may be difficult to control our desire to snack, but we can control what we snack on, and the AHA has several suggestions for how to stock your pantry:

For more tips on eating healthy snacks, you can visit the American Heart Association or read Concentra’s Healthy Snacks List.