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What to Eat to Reverse Heart Disease

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We’re going to continue our look at the recently published research on the way to reverse CAD. Remember, 89% of the people recruited for this study were still following the diet more than three years later. Let’s take a look at what they ate and what they didn’t eat.

The paper describes the core diet as consisting of the following: whole grains, legumes, lentils, other vegetables, and fruit. Of course, this is a completely vegan diet. The researchers assured the subjects that they would reach their protein intake every day.

The researchers prohibited many foods as well . . .

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Reversing Heart Disease

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and Canada in people 65 and older. Many people who are younger have high blood pressure, clogged arteries, and arrhythmias; the side effects of treating those issues impair their lives, and they can’t do all they’d like to do because of physical limitations due to coronary artery disease (CAD). But what if there were a way, without medications, without surgeries, to reverse CAD? This was the question posed in a recently published study (1) that we’ll examine this week.

The primary author is Dr. Caldwell . . .

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