03/05/2025
“Making just small changes to your lifestyle starting in midlife—like eating five or more daily servings of fruits and vegetables, walking about 20 minutes a day, maintaining a healthy weight, and not smoking—can result in a substantial reduction in mortality even in the immediate future.
But don’t wait. Every year, there are half a million heart attacks, half a million strokes, a million new cases of diabetes, and a million new cancer diagnoses in just the United States alone.
Heart disease begins in childhood. By age 10, most kids eating a Westernized diet already have fatty streaks in their arteries—the first stage of the disease. Plaques start forming in our 20s and get worse in our 30s, eventually leading to heart attacks and strokes. For anyone reading this who is older than 10, the question isn’t whether to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, but whether you want to reverse the heart disease that you already have.
The good news is that the potential for preventing disease and death from chronic diseases is enormous.
Diet is considered to be the most important lifestyle factor when it comes to aging, healthspan, and lifespan. We can change how we eat.
Pioneering research from Nathan Pritikin, Dean Ornish, and Caldwell Esselstyn has shown that a plant-based diet may help arrest or even reverse the progression of heart disease in the majority of patients. Indeed, it’s the only diet that ever has.
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