After starting my vegan diet based on Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr.'s philosophy, I Googled his name and found that he is coming to my area (well, close to my area) in the next few weeks. Dr. Esselstyn will be attending the Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Area Council for Wellness (mac4wellness.org) meeting on the evening of September 29th. Dr. E. will give a talk on Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease and his wife, Ann Esselstyn will also give a talk on "Shop, Stock and Cook the Healthy Way." There will also be a food tasting that same evening. The information poster is here. It's an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
The program starts at 6:00 PM at the Burgin Center of the Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.
Map here.
More later,
Ambrose
Monday, September 19, 2011
First Post on Heart Health
Hello World!
I started a new diet about 2 weeks ago and thought that I should start a blog since I have so many blogs on other interests as well. This one may be the most important one for me of them all!
I am a 55 year old naturalized Chinese American who has a heart problem. :)
I was diagnosed with a 99% block of "The Widowmaker" the Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD) back in 2004 and as with many heart ailment sufferers, underwent a lot of thoughts about my life and in particular, my diet! I went with a low fat, low salt diet with few other limits.
After 7 years, I wasn't happy with what I felt was still going wrong with my heart so I decided to make a significant change. This one would provide me with two benefits, heart health and weight loss. It wasn't a difficult decision because I was mostly vegetarian when I was in College and going back to it wasn't a strain on my lifestyle. Of course, this was met with some resistance from my wife who would have to support me in this endeavor because she does the cooking at dinner time!
Besides limiting myself to just vegetarian foods, I am going one step farther and going with a pure vegan diet that also eliminates oils.
It's motto is very simple. Nothing with a face and nothing from a mother. No milk, no cheese, no animal products and no oils whatsoever. It's based on a diet I heard about on Sanjay Gupta's CNN news special called:
I started a new diet about 2 weeks ago and thought that I should start a blog since I have so many blogs on other interests as well. This one may be the most important one for me of them all!
I am a 55 year old naturalized Chinese American who has a heart problem. :)
I was diagnosed with a 99% block of "The Widowmaker" the Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD) back in 2004 and as with many heart ailment sufferers, underwent a lot of thoughts about my life and in particular, my diet! I went with a low fat, low salt diet with few other limits.
After 7 years, I wasn't happy with what I felt was still going wrong with my heart so I decided to make a significant change. This one would provide me with two benefits, heart health and weight loss. It wasn't a difficult decision because I was mostly vegetarian when I was in College and going back to it wasn't a strain on my lifestyle. Of course, this was met with some resistance from my wife who would have to support me in this endeavor because she does the cooking at dinner time!
Besides limiting myself to just vegetarian foods, I am going one step farther and going with a pure vegan diet that also eliminates oils.
It's motto is very simple. Nothing with a face and nothing from a mother. No milk, no cheese, no animal products and no oils whatsoever. It's based on a diet I heard about on Sanjay Gupta's CNN news special called:
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: The Last Heart Attack – Sanjay Gupta MD - CNN.com
It is available to view online at:
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. known as the prescriber of the diet that former President, Bill Clinton is on right now. President Clinton has also sworn off all animal products in his diet. I hope to report on my progress and also on tips and tricks I find along the way.
More later,
Ambrose
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