Home from the hospital! Now what to make for dinner? You may think that I'm paranoid, but after much research over the past 24 hours the verdict is unanimous: diet, exercise, and stress management are vital to a healthy heart. And the other piece of news: heart disease is reversible!
After reading Dr. Dean Ornish's book, Reversing Heart Disease, I opted for a slightly less radical approach. You see, Dr. Ornish says to go completely vegetarian and completely low fat. His results are amazing. (Of course they are. You're not eating meat or fat.) I knew that no way would this work. Not while we're still raising a family, too. If I were to get hubby to stick to a heart healthy diet it couldn't be by going all the way over to the extreme. After a week or two he'd give up. So instead, I went with Dr. Andrew Weil, Eating Well For Optimum Health. His methodology is very similar, but he doesn't go for extremes. His diet is Mediterranean, full of healthy complex carbs, very little meat, and about 3 servings of fish a week. And, he even says have a piece of good (expensive!) dark chocolate once in awhile. It's a good fat, like olive oil.
So for lunch that day (our big meal of the day) we had :
- Soy and Ginger Wild Cod (frozen at Trader Joe's at $7.00 a pound-very reasonable!)
- frozen oriental style vegies ( also from TJ's)
- a spinach salad spruced up with radishes, red onion, a little romaine, and some tomato with garlic, herbs, salt and pepper, a bit of olive oil and Orange Muscat Champagne vinegar (TJ's)
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