Many leading experts agree: A good plant-based diet — a healthy heart diet — and an exercise routine can prevent heart disease.
In more than a decade of interviews and reviews, Dr. Ed Dodge has explored the research and delivered the experts’ sound advice in his Wellness Newsletter.
Explore the editions below to discover how to keep your heart healthy.
The Cheese Trap by Neal D. Barnard, MD, looks at the risks to health caused by cheese. Barnard is on the faculty of The George Washington School of Medicine. He is also founder of the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. When you look at his book cover, the A in…
“Our country is facing a nutrition crisis,” states Dr. Mozaffarian, Dean of Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy. “Few other challenges cause more deaths, disability, and associated preventable health costs. Congress is actively debating how to improve health and reduce costs – fixing our food system is among…
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Annual Conference held October 23-26 in Naples, Florida was the best yet. The setting at the Naples Grande Resort was beautiful. The conference theme was “Healthy People, Healthy Planet.” Plant-based eating is healthier than the standard American diet for both people and the…
How Not to Die is a book by Dr. Michael Greger published in December 2015. It has become a top-rated book on Amazon, with over 1,000 five-star reviews. Dr. Greger is a remarkable physician who has made it his life mission to make accurate up-to-date nutritional information easily available to…
Heart Intelligence, published earlier this year by the HeartMath Institute, is the Institute’s newest book on the communication capabilities of the heart. The book summarizes the research done by this institute over the past 25 years and brings us up to date on the latest surprising findings about the heart’s…
The Secret Language of the Heart by Barry Goldstein is a modest paperback book with a valuable message. Music is a more powerful healing tool than most of us realize. The book’s subtitle tells us the author’s purpose: How to Use Music, Sound, and Vibration as Tools for Healing and…
The editorial in the March 2016 American Family Physician, which I received yesterday, states: “Consistently strong evidence supports the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables; in addition, moderate to strong evidence indicates the consumption of whole grains should be increased.” The editorial goes on to say: “Moderate to strong…
I took a round-about trip during the last ten days of October and first half of November to visit family and attend a couple conferences along the way. I put 4000 miles on my little Toyota pickup as I traveled to Florida, Nashville, Indianapolis, and then back to San Antonio.…
The hero of Homer’s epic Greek poem, Odysseus, encounters one deadly peril after another during his tumultuous ten-year voyage home after the Trojan war. Eventually, after countless close calls, he reaches his home island of Ithaca. There, after a last bit of drama, he is finally reunited with his loving…
The Starch Solution is a recent book by Dr. John McDougall. The book and the author are both somewhat controversial as they cut across the grain of much conventional medical thinking. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book is worth reviewing. Dr. McDougall doesn’t mince words as he…