Nutrition is confusing. Often people assume a lot about me and how I eat. Many people assume I am vegan or vegetarian because I don’t eat cow’s dairy products and
When you think about heart disease, you imagine an overweight, older male experiencing heart palpitations and chest pain. That’s definitely valid, but a cardiologist who is an athlete also wants people to know that heart disease is not one-size-fits-all, and it can show up in a wide variety of symptoms and affect people of all ages. Heart disease is currently the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of every racial and ethnic background in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it s never too early to start eating a heart-healthy diet rich in plant-based foods. No amount of exercise can outrun the damage we can do with our forks, and being active is only half the equation.
Chef AJ, the popular vegan chef, has been eating a plant-based diet for 43 years. Perhaps what she is most known for is using this healthy lifestyle approach to shed over 100 pounds, and help others feel their healthiest too. On Tuesday night, Chef AJ partnered with Forks Over Knives to host a webinar entitled: 7 Habits to Lose Weight and Finally Keep It Off For Good with Chef AJ. Within minutes the webinar reached its capacity, but if you missed it, we ve written up the salient points, and are sharing the link here.
In a segment lasting just over an hour, Chef AJ breaks down her best tips for sustainable weight loss while eating plant-based, to a capped audience of thousands of viewers. You can see the full replay below, or visit this link to learn more.
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The words echo on the lips of everyone you know. Exactly two weeks after Texas Public Radio moved into our new headquarters in downtown San Antonio, near
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The phrase plant-based diet is being tossed around a lot these days. The Skeptical Cardiologist never knows what people mean when they use it and so must assume that most of the world is also puzzled by this trendy term.
For some, a plant-based diet is what vegans eat. Veganism combines a diet free of animal products with a moral philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.
Vegans are the strictest of vegetarians, eschewing milk, fish, and eggs.
One plant-based diet advocate in the introduction to a special issue of the
Journal of Geriatric Cardiology wrote that a plant-based diet consists of all minimally processed fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, herbs, and spices and excludes all animal products, including red meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and dairy products.