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There’s a consistent tragedy among heart surgery patients: they believed disease was inevitable. Where lung cancer victims may express regret for smoking, and an alcoholic may wish they’d made different choices when they develop cirrhosis, patients with heart disease are often oblivious that their diet affects their heart health. Some do make the connection and Read More
Many people find the idea of heart healthy eating confusing, with so many restrictions and news stories about the latest discovery that’s been supposedly linked to heart disease. The truth is simpler than we’ve been led to believe: improving heart health isn’t complicated. If heart disease prevention is important to you, your number one priority Read More
Are you familiar with the feeling of staring at your computer, unable to get any work done? Where you know what you should do, but just can’t focus? It doesn’t feel strictly like lethargy or procrastination, but you know there’s a lack of mental clarity that makes it difficult to get in the zone and Read More
The saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ is absolutely true for heart health. While today’s surgical interventions and medications make it possible for more people to survive heart problems, you don’t have to become ill before you pay attention to your heart health. Heart disease prevention doesn’t have to be difficult or inconvenient, and is Read More
Heart disease is a huge problem in the USA. Based on data from 2021, the CDC reports that: One person dies every 33 seconds to heart disease, which adds up to 695,000 Americans each year Heart disease accounts for 1 in every 5 deaths Heart disease costs the United States more than $239.9 billion per Read More
Poor health has become normalized. For ourselves and those around us, we consider it the natural order to feel tired, be prescribed medication, and gain weight.
Read MoreImproving your metabolic health is one of the most beneficial things you can ever do. There are markers for identifying how metabolically healthy a person is, which means that it’s an objective monitor. It isn’t based on how you feel, nor do you become metabolically healthy because you started a new healthy habit. Metabolic health Read More
If you worry that eating healthy costs a lot of money, I’ve got good news: it doesn’t have to. It’s a persistent idea that low-income families can’t afford healthy foods, and in this post you’re going to see that it’s not true. Although you can find pre-packaged foods with a lower sticker price, this can Read More
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I used to be fat. Officially, I was obese, carrying over 100 pounds in excess weight. My parents were also obese, both eventually opting for gastric bypass surgery. A lot of people would have told me I was genetically destined to be obese. This was a concept Read More
Being an overweight heart surgeon didn’t feel right. My weight didn’t make me any worse at my job, but I felt like a hypocrite. All I could think was, “here I am, operating on people and telling them how to live healthily, while at the same time unable to control my own weight.” I also Read More
Struggling with weight is hard. That’s true whether you’re struggling to lose weight or gain weight. It’s made harder still when you hear from people in fantastic shape how “easy” it is to be healthy. I’m sure you’ve seen them as much as I have. Fitness enthusiasts, often with a supplement or apparel to sell, Read More
Once somebody has taken the necessary blood tests and learned that they are metabolically unhealthy, how long does it take to improve? Most diseases in the US are related to poor metabolic health. Not only that, but the markers that tell us we have poor metabolic health can be abnormal for up to a decade Read More
Dr. Philip Ovadia is the featured guest of LowCarbMD Podcast Episode 133. Dr. Ovadia is a cardiothoracic surgeon who has seen impressive results using a low-carb dietary intervention with his patients. Having personally struggled with obesity, Dr. Ovadia realized he had to make a change and needed an answer to his weight problem. That answer Read More
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