5 Foods to Prevent a Heart Attack | Dr. Jim Loomis Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
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Summary
Food could save your life.
What you eat can prevent a heart attack long before disaster strikes.
Dr. Jim Loomis shares five foods that can help prevent a heart attack when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
Dr. Loomis is a preventive medicine specialist and has worked as a physician for teams in both the NFL and Major League Baseball. He currently serves as co-host of The Doc & Chef as well as medical director for the Barnard Medical Center.
Topics Discussed
- Foods that prevent heart disease and heart attacks
- The best vegetables for heart health
- The best beans for heart health
- The best fruits to prevent a heart attack
- Is white meat healthier for your heart?
- Is steak and potatoes really the deadliest dinner?
- Are all oils bad for your heart?
- Plus your questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.0 | Let's say you're talking to a patient and you say, hey, these are the five foods you should be eating if you do not want to have a heart attack. |
| 0:11.0 | What is the number one food on your list? So I would say |
| 0:15.2 | legumes probably number one, you know, beans, lentils, and there's a couple of |
| 0:19.4 | reasons why there's such a powerful tool. So what is a substitution effect? |
| 0:23.6 | If you're getting your protein, for example, |
| 0:25.4 | from legumes, from beans, you know, |
| 0:27.5 | what else are you getting? |
| 0:28.6 | You're getting fiber. |
| 0:29.5 | So fiber has been shown to lower blood pressure, |
| 0:32.4 | lower blood sugar, you know, lower cholesterol, |
| 0:35.2 | help control weight. You're also getting a ton of antioxidants, especially the |
| 0:40.5 | darker beans and you know one of the risk factors for heart diseases |
| 0:43.9 | high cholesterol and when we develop oxygenating stress which is a normal response to our |
| 0:49.1 | bodies and in small doses it's good but in high doses you can actually oxidize the the LDL particles |
| 0:55.2 | making it more reactive with the blood vessel wall red beans, red beans, pento beans, black beans, |
| 1:00.7 | very potent antioxidants. And what are you not getting? |
| 1:03.9 | You're not getting saturated fat. |
| 1:06.8 | So when we get our protein, for example, |
| 1:09.2 | from chicken or ham or beef or turkey, you know, what else are we getting? We're getting |
| 1:14.8 | saturated is that, right? And what are we not getting? We're not getting |
| 1:18.4 | antioxidants because antioxidants only occur in plants. We're not getting |
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