The Best Diet to Treat Heart Disease

The Best Diet to Treat Heart Disease

Heart Disease (Coronary Artery Disease) has been our number 1 killer in the US for 100 years. A disease that physician/researcher Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. calls a paper tiger that doesn’t have to exist – and if it does exist, does not need to progress. How can this be said about our persistent number 1 killer?

Dr. Esselstyn’s own research, along with the research of Nathan Pritikin and Dean Ornish MD supports Dr. Essestyn’s assertion about heart disease.  Their research supports following a low-fat whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet to both prevent and reverse coronary artery disease.

Although organizations like Kaiser Permanente and cardiologists Robert Ostfeld, Joel Kahn and Kim Williams (among others) are promoting low-fat WFPB diets to patients, not all organizations or physicians are yet to board the WFPB train.

Other Diets Recommended for Heart Disease

Three non-WFPB diets which evidence shows can help slow the progression of heart disease include:

• The Mediterranean Diet
• The USDA Food Plan
• The DASH Diet

Cardiologist Dr. Steven Lome Rates The Diets

On his Heartstrong web site, Chicago cardiologist Steven Lome explains the pros and limitations of these three diets. He clearly rates each of these diets below a low fat WFPB diet as a treatment for heart disease.  His rationale for doing this is based on the fact that none of the three non-WFPB diets have been shown to reverse coronary artery disease.

Dr. Lome provides visitors to his site important information about the different treatment diets and lets visitors decide which diet they are ready to adopt.

If you or someone you know was just placed on a statin drug and told to begin living a healthier lifestyle, the Heartstrong web site is a great free resource to steer him/her towards.

Kudos to Dr. Lome for trying to change the world for the better.

Stay Healthy and Strong!