Healthy Heart Diet: How Plant-Based Foods Prevent Heart Disease - a podcast by Physicians Committee

from 2018-09-26T07:00

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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