Singh, co-director of the Sports Cardiology Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said she personally follows a whole foods, unprocessed, plant-based diet and counsels her patients about eating the same way. She wonders what imaging would reveal about that type of plant-based eating compared to eating oily fish and also to eating red and processed meats.
“If you really just take it down to the granular and try to eat something before it’s been manifested into something totally processed with a lot of ingredients, a lot of chemicals, maybe antibiotics, things that we can’t even pronounce on the ingredient list, that’s probably not the best thing for you,” Singh said. “So just keep it simple, keep it lean, green and clean.”
More information
The American Heart Association has more diet and lifestyle recommendations.
