India, Dec. 15 -- With half of the last month of 2025 already gone and 2026 just a fortnight away, it's the perfect time to reconsider your lifestyle habits so you can modify them and begin the year with a positive note and healthy lifestyle habits. One of the most preliminary lifestyle changes you can make is improving your diet. What you eat has a very significant impact on your heart, and given how heart diseases are on the rise in India, it is the need of the hour.

To understand how you can take better precautions and know if your diet is a green/red flag for your heart health, HT Lifestyle spoke to Dr Sunil Kumar Mandal, consultant cardiologist at Kailash Hospital, Greater Noida.

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