Healthy Heart Diet: How Plant-Based Foods Prevent Heart Disease
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Two of the nation's top cardiologists on the forefront of plant-based nutrition join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll! Dr. Kim Williams and Dr. Andrew Freeman share their unique approach to helping patients understand the link between what they eat and their heart health.
Their revolutionary approach to medicine came only after they improved their own health switching to a plant-based diet. Now they're witnessing countless patients experience the same drastic change. Many of them have even reversed heart disease.
Dr. Williams is the former president of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Freeman is the founder and co-chair of the American College of Cardiology's Nutrition and Lifestyle workgroup.
In This Episode
- Why plant-based diets are the future of preventative medicine
- The link between the standard American diet and heart disease
- How a plant-based diet can reduce and eliminate the need for cholesterol lowering drugs
- How a single patient's extraordinary recovery changed the way Dr. Williams viewed plant-based diets
- How the doctors' own health improved after eliminating meat and dairy from their diets
- Why people are so sensitive when it comes to changing diets
- How to help patients better understand how what they're eating effects their health
- How you can lower your risk of developing heart disease
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Exam Room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:15.0 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:17.6 | Thanks for giving us a listen. |
| 0:19.2 | Thank you for giving us a download greatly, greatly appreciated. |
| 0:23.9 | Heart Healthy Dietz this week all about how plant-based foods can prevent heart disease. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm going to be speaking with two of the leading cardiologists in the country, both of them |
| 0:35.2 | on the forefront of the benefits of plant-based dieting. |
| 0:39.2 | I'll be chatting with Dr. Kim Williams. |
| 0:41.2 | He is the former president of the American College of Cardiology, as well as Dr. Andrew |
| 0:46.4 | Freeman, who was the founder and co-chair of the American College of Cardiology's Nutrition |
| 0:51.7 | and Lifestyle Work Group. |
| 0:53.8 | Both doctors, their careers devoted to heart health, have switched to a plant-based diet |
| 1:00.0 | after researching it and witnessing first hand the effect that it can have on cardiovascular |
| 1:06.4 | function. |
| 1:07.6 | For Dr. Freeman, check this out. |
| 1:09.3 | For Dr. Freeman, it even led to a rebate on his life insurance premium. |
| 1:14.4 | Think about that. |
| 1:15.9 | Let that, seriously, let that marinate for a second, a rebate on life insurance. |
| 1:21.6 | Who in the world ever heard of an insurance company sending a rebate check? |
| 1:26.9 | But it happened to Dr. Freeman after he adopted that plant-based diet. |
| 1:31.2 | So you're going to hear about that and how their methods are dramatically improving patient |
| 1:36.5 | outcomes, as well as their quality of life. |
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