How To Eat To Prevent, or Reverse, Heart Disease - Part 2

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Part 2! Nutritionist Heather Borders (former astronaut trainer and engineer) takes us into the nuts and bolts of how to eat when heart disease is a concern.

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Heather Borders: No one really prepared me for how much of it it's gonna have to talk to people about carbohydrates,

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Heather Borders: this isn't a no fat lifestyle. This is a low fat lifestyle.

Dr. Sagar: So two

questions based

on that

Track 1: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. ...Yeah.

Dr. Sagar: and then go ahead, answer that. And then I

Track 1: So I would say that the average American probably being generous here, is probably getting in 30 to 40% of their calories coming from fat. It, there may be other sources that say it's more, but that's usually what we're seeing. And for most people, weight loss, we need to get under 20% of calories coming from fat.

and in some of the more extreme or stricter plant-based interventions, you'll see them get down to 10% calories from fat. And so that is a situation where not eating out much of all, you're not getting any oils. and you're getting your fats from, avocados and nuts and seeds and not too much

So

So that is a very plant, you can't get that, you can't do 10, 15% with much animal protein in your diet and with much processed foods , that's a pretty plant forward diet. Yeah.

Dr. Sagar: Yeah, and so that less than 10% is for people that have real concerning heart disease and don't want it

Track 1: Yeah.

Dr. Sagar: progress

Track 1: I use this analogy for a lot of GI issues, but it goes, it goes a long way with other things too. But if someone has a broken leg, like a really bad broken leg, they have to get it realigned. They gotta go put a cast on it, and they're gonna hang out in a cast for six to eight weeks, if not longer, for it to heal.

And some of the direction that the doctors are gonna tell you is don't put weight on it, don't walk on it, don't get it wet. And for the average person who is ambulatory and doesn't have a broken leg, walking is a healthy activity. and swimming, if you wanna get it wet, showering, it's a good idea.

So it is a very unique situation when someone has a very, a broken leg that they have to follow certain protocol for a while so that it heals.