Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

We are a small, family-owned company with a big goal of spreading the real food message

through life-changing nutrition, education, and counseling. I'm Teresa Wagner, a registered

and licensed dietitian, and I'm here today

with my co-host, Leah Kleinshroote, who is also a registered and licensed dietitian. As we close

out the month of February, we knew we needed to do at least one show around the topic of

heart health since February is the American Heart Month. So today is the day.

The title of our show today is Family History of Heart Disease. Eat this, not that. How many of you

listening out there know that heart disease is likely lurking somewhere in the depths of your genetic code.

Have you ever thought to yourself, boy, I better make some changes now to take care of my heart so I don't end up like Uncle Bob or Grandpa Joe?

Or maybe you've already had a few warning lights go off on your dashboard.

You've been put on a high blood pressure medication. You've had to do an EKG or a stress test for some unexplained chest pains.

Or your blood sugar levels have danced in the pre-diabetic range for the last five years.

Today, we want to shed some light on what real food can do to

help mitigate some of that underlying risk. Yeah, that's great. And this is a topic near and dear

to my heart, so totally pun intended there. But I know for me, I have heart and vascular issues coming at me on

both sides of the family. And this ranges from high blood pressure and high cholesterol to actual

heart attacks, strokes, bypass surgeries, and more. And Teresa, you and I, we've met with many

clients who are in that same boat. I can just

think about clients that I've sat down with who they start listing off the family members who

have had heart attacks even in their 40s or sometimes even late 30s. And it makes you almost

feel like you're staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and wondering if and when it's

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