Chapter 5

Eat for Your Life: Nutrition Habits

FOOD IS POWERFUL medicine. My patients who have successfully turned their lives around get the big picture: “diets” don’t work; sustainable healthy eating habits do. What we’re aiming for is a healthy diet that can be maintained for life.

In this chapter I’ll outline twenty-two heart-healthy diet habits and the science behind them, plus specific action advice and delicious recipe suggestions. The recipes, which are provided at the end of the book, were developed with input from a chef and are designed to be scrumptious, simple, flexible, and budget-minded. Making the best food choices can become easy and natural . . . in other words, habit.