Interview with EatingWell Nicci Micco heart healthy: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all about how to eat a heart healthier diet from our good friend Nicci Micco, Senior Editor with Eating Well magazine. After we spent a very long time discussing the Fat Guy’s increasingly high blood pressure Nicci talked about an important article in her magazine titled “10 Steps to Heart Health” She says that you can improve your heart health by Eating Well…that might have been a shameless plug for her magazine though. 

Did you know that in the United States, cardiovascular disease affects about 9 million adults, killing one every 37 seconds. More people die from heart related causes than AIDS, murder and suicide combined. But the good news—which Dr. Philip Ades, author of the new book EatingWell for a Healthy Heart has made it his mission to spread—is that heart-disease is mostly preventable. Research shows that up to 90 percent of heart disease can be prevented by changing one’s diet, exercising more, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking.

Lower your risk for heart disease by following these 10 steps.

1- Know your numbers…blood pressure, hdl, ldl, cholesterol, etc; 2-Calculate your risk; 3-Lose some weight…hear that Fat Guy; 4-eat less saturated fats; 5-lose the junk food…remember No Junk in 2008. You’ll have to listen to get the rest or go to the Nicci’s website for more information www.eatingwell.com. You can get Dr Ades’ book there as well.

Tags: books, diet, Eating Well Magazine, Exercise, heart health, Nicci Micco

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