Tag: Heart Disease
What’s the Difference Between Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest?
In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. Every year, more than 800,000 Americans have a heart attack,…
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A Life-Threatening Stroke Spurred Me to Try a Plant-Based Diet, and I’ve Never Looked Back
Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, I was a pretty active kid. I lived for playing outdoors with my brothers, Bryan and Bobby,…
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Meet Columbus Batiste, MD, the Plant-Based Cardiologist Changing Hearts and Minds
After watching his father suffer from diabetes, cardiologist Columbus Batiste, MD, went plant-based and launched the Integrative Cardiovascular Disease Program at California’s…
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New Studies Show Eating Plant-Based at Any Age Can Protect Against Heart Disease Later In Life
Two large-scale observational studies published last week in the Journal of the American Heart Association came to the same conclusion: the more…
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I Put High Cholesterol and Severe Arthritis Behind Me on a Plant-Based Diet
I’ve always loved exercise, but after I began having meniscus tears in my knees that required surgery, I didn’t exercise much, if…
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A Carb-Centric Diet Helped Me Recover from Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes has plagued my family for generations. I have early childhood memories of my grandma eating chocolate cake and saying, “I’ll just…
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I Suffered a Widowmaker Heart Attack at 45. Today I’m Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet
I’ve lived in Texas my whole life, raised by parents who liked to fry stuff. I played high school football and ate…
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I Dropped 100 Pounds in One Year by Ditching Animal Products, Processed Foods
I’ve been big for most of my life. I wasn’t an obese child, but I was tall and overweight, and I knew…
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Getting Healthier Together on a Plant-Based Diet
Last year, my husband and I reached a turning point in our health. After several years of gradual weight gain, our BMIs…
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From Cheese-Loving Vegetarian with Sky-High Blood Pressure to Whole-Food, Plant-Based and Healthy
Around 10 years ago I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I knew in the back of my mind…
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A Plant-Based Diet Cut My LDL Cholesterol in Half
Like many people, I struggled with my weight from a very early age. I tried nearly every diet you can think of….
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I Went Vegan After Cardiac Arrest Nearly Killed Me
February 12, 2013, will live in infamy as my “death day,” but perhaps it would be more accurate to call it my…
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