The #1 Best Diet for a Healthy Heart, According to a Doctor
At age 61, physician Akil Taherbhai, MD, decided to overhaul his diet.
The family medicine specialist based in Gadsden, Alabama, was lying on a hospital gurney being wheeled into the operating room for open-heart bypass surgery. Watching the overhead lights go by, he had a revelation: "Do I want to continue like this?" he asked himself. "I had a choice to make: To sit in a rocking chair living vicariously through my children and waiting for death or take control of my diet."
He chose the latter.
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