The Simple Heart Cure Diet and Meal Plan: 28 Days of Healthy Meals and Over 100 Delicious and Easy Recipes

by Chauncey Crandall M.D., Charlotte Libov (With)

Overview

Dr. Crandall’s Healthy Habits to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease

Based on new medical research and including over 28 days of healthy meals and over 100 delicious and easy recipes, THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN is the perfect companion to Dr. Chauncey Crandall’s bestselling THE SIMPLE HEART CURE: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease Revised and Updated. 

Heart disease kills more people than any other medical condition. No one is more aware of this than top cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall, who has performed over 40,000 heart procedures during his career. Dr. Crandall is living proof of his program’s success. At the age of 48, and with no major risk factors, he found himself in the ER with a “widow-maker” blockage of his main coronary artery. After emergency heart surgery, he recovered from heart disease using the same course of treatment and diet he recommends to his thousands of patients — and details for your benefit. His unique perspective as both doctor and patient helps him empathize with the difficulties in making a transition from years of bad habits to a heart-healthy way of life.

THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN is a groundbreaking approach to preventing and reversing heart disease — an approach honed by Dr. Crandall’s study of foreign cultures free of heart disease and decades of experience helping patients achieve a healthier heart at any age. 

Dr. Crandall believes in using every weapon in his medical arsenal — conventional medicine, emerging treatments, lifestyle changes, even alternative therapies — to help his patients recover.

Based on the concepts pioneered in THE SIMPLE HEART CURE, this companion guide, THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN, works by reducing major heart disease risk factors: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and pre-diabetes, and obesity. Eating right with this simple (and tasty) meal plan will help you live a life worth living! Dr. Crandall outlines the steps you can take to change your diet and get on a path to better health:

• Combines best of Mediterranean and plant-based diets
• Substitutions and swaps to please every palate
• Meal prep and grocery store shortcuts
• Shopping lists and pantry staples
• 28 days of tasty and nutritious meal plans
• Over 100 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes
• Motivational tips to stay on course
• Easy-to-follow simple fitness plan
• And much more!

So, whether you just want to prevent heart problems, or you’ve already had a heart attack, you’ll find the help you need in THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN, along with tasty, heart-healthy recipes, menus and week-by-week meal plans to help you begin taking action now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630061234
Publisher:	Humanix Books
Publication date:	09/12/2023
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

DR. CHAUNCEY CRANDALL IV, M.D., F.A.C.C., is a renowned cardiologist in the United States and the leader of medical missions across the world for forty years, leading medical teams on the front lines of battle and waging a war against the plagues that devastate poor communities throughout the world.

He is Director of Preventive Medicine and Complex Cardiology at Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach, Florida.

His passion for heading to medical crises all over the world began early, when, at the age of nineteen, he traveled to the jungles of Africa and worked stateside with world-famous anthropologist Colin M. Turnbull. He gained early training in pandemics at Yale University, where he was introduced to Dr. Robert Gallo, the virologist who discovered the HIV virus that can lead to AIDS. Over his career, Dr. Crandall has performed more than forty thousand heart procedures. He regularly lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of cardiology topics, and he is the author of several top-selling health books, including THE SIMPLE HEART CURE, FIGHT BACK: BEAT THE CORONAVIRUS, and he is the editor of the popular medical newsletter Dr. Crandall’s Heart Health Report.

Dr. Crandall continues to devote much of his life’s work to the poor, the suffering, and the dying and personally ministers to the sick in areas forgotten by others.

He has been heralded for his values and message of hope and victory that he brings to his patients in the United States and that he spreads to others throughout the world.

To contact Dr. Crandall:

Dr. Chauncey Crandall

c/o Chadwick Foundation

P.O. Box 3046

Palm Beach, FL 

33480

chaunceycrandall.com

http://crandallreport.com/

Read an Excerpt

Chapter One of THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN by Dr Chauncey Crandall

Let's Get Started!

For my lifetime diet plan, I reviewed many diets, and twotypes stood out: the plant-based heart disease reversal dietand the Mediterranean diet.

Plant-Based Diets Can Reverse Heart Disease

In the 1990s, Dr. Dean Ornish and, a decade later, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn demonstrated that a strict, plant-based diet could actually reverse heart disease. 

Just what is a plant-based diet? It’s a diet concentrated on raw and cooked vegetables of every description, along with fresh fruit, whole grains, and legumes (beans). 

But these diets are strict, and what use is such a diet if it’s too difficult to stay on? 

Over the years, I have come to believe that a strictly plant-based diet is not the best choice for many people, unless they have very serious cardiovascular disease and there is no other option.

The Mediterranean Diet Is More Satisfying

On the other hand, the Mediterranean diet is one of the most studied and highly ranked diets in the world. It also contains foods in diets followed naturally by people living in the “BlueZones,” where an unusually high number of people who reach the age of 100 reside.

The problem is that the Mediterranean diet is more lenient than the plant-based heart reversal diets, so while it’s easier to stick to, many people find it difficult to lose weight with it.

The Solution? The Simple Heart Cure Diet

So this was my challenge: to create a diet that would take some aspects of plant-based eating and combine it with aspects of the Mediterranean diet, which, while tasty and satisfying, does not necessarily achieve weight loss. So I took aspects of both to create a diet that is not only satisfying and delicious but also heart healthy.

Goals of the Simple Heart Cure Diet

The Simple Heart Cure Diet also helps reverse and preventheart disease by reducing the following major heart diseaserisk factors:

• high cholesterol
• high blood pressure
• diabetes and pre-diabetes
• obesity

GOAL 1. Tackle High Cholesterol 

If you have even mildly elevated cholesterol, you are likely concerned about your doctor putting you on statin drugs, which lower cholesterol but also carry potential side effects.

For my patients without underlying heart disease, I recommend a total cholesterol count of under 170–200 mg/dl. People with coronary heart disease need to keep their total cholesterol reading below 150.

Getting to your goal weight, which for most people is the weight they were in high school, will result in lowering your cholesterol.

GOAL 2. Lower High Blood Pressure

Because my diet is rich in fruits and vegetables as well as fiber, it naturally lowers high blood pressure.

GOAL 3. Prevent or Reverse Diabetes

About 29 million Americans, or 9% of the population, have the metabolic disorder known as diabetes, yet millions of them are unaware of it.

In addition, millions of additional Americans also have insulin resistance, which is also referred to as “prediabetes.” This is sometimes also called “borderline” or “mild” diabetes, but don’t be fooled. People in this category almost invariably go on to develop full-blown diabetes and heart disease. So if you’re told you are insulin resistant, or have pre-diabetes, you have to treat the diagnosis just as seriously as if you had full-blown diabetes.

Losing weight on my diet will help you control your diabetes as well as prevent and even reverse it.

DR. CRANDALL’S MOTIVATIONAL TIP

Love Is the Greatest Motivator

Because I’m a cardiologist, my new patients often expect me to lecture them on the consequences that will befall them if they don’t lose weight. But fear of death can only motivate you for a little while. In the end, it’s what you truly love that determines whether or not you will take the steps to successfully lose weight. That is why love is the most powerful motivator in the world.

Do you love eating and drinking more than your family? More than what you might yet accomplish in your life? Have you given up, or do you want to live?

If you start eating as I’ve recommended, you’ll feel so much better that you’ll rediscover the joys in life. Eat right in order to live a life that’s truly worth living—that’s my Simple Heart Cure Diet Plan.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents of THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN by Dr Chauncey Crandall

Introduction......................................................... 1

PART ONE Why the Simple Heart Cure Diet Works

CHAPTER 1Let’s Get Started!.................................................. 5

CHAPTER 2 The Principles of the Simple Heart Cure Diet.............. 11

CHAPTER 3 How to Prepare for the Simple Heart Cure Diet........... 17

CHAPTER 4 How to Stick to the Simple Heart Cure Diet................ 25

PART TWO The Simple Heart Cure Diet Lifestyle

CHAPTER 5 The Simple Heart Cure Diet Food List....................... 35

CHAPTER 6 The Simple Heart Cure Diet 28‑Day Menu Plan............ 43

CHAPTER 7 The Simple Heart Cure Diet Special Recipes............... 89

CHAPTER 8 Dr. Crandall’s Simple Fitness Plan.......................... 161

Acknowledgments.............................................. 171

Index............................................................... 172

About the Authors.............................................. 187

Preface

INTRODUCTION to THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN by Dr Chauncey Crandall

Twenty years ago, I found myself in a crisis on the brink ofa heart attack.

A few days earlier, I’d felt a pain in my left shoulder, whichI assumed was a pulled muscle. But, after ignoring it, the pain continued to build up in intensity and did not decrease. Now, after an emergency trip to the hospital, here I was. I soon learned I had coronary heart disease, and the blood flow to one of my arteries was blocked.

Two stents restored the blood flow to my heart, but I knew they were only a possible short-term fix. I knew heart disease is a progressive and relentless disease process and, unless I drastically changed my lifestyle, there would be more issues in my future.

For years, my wife had urged me to eat healthy and lose weight, and I had ignored her. But, deep down, I knew she was right. I had to change.

So I decided to pour all my knowledge and experience into a plan to help my patients—and myself—lose weight and stick to a heart-healthy diet.

It worked. With my cardiologist practice as my laboratory, I have seen thousands of my patients lose weight and reverse heart disease, and even I—despite my stubbornness—have succeeded.

And the result is this book, THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for FIGHT BACK: Beat the Coronavirus by Chauncey W. Crandall M.D. and Charlotte Libov

“FIGHT BACK by Chauncey Crandall M.D. You want to get a copy of it.” — Pat Robertson, 700 Club

“The best book on preventing and facing the Coronavirus.” — Newsmax

Praise for THE SIMPLE HEART CURE: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease REVISED AND UPDATED by Chauncey W. Crandall, M.D.

“By following the advice in Dr. Chauncey Crandall’s new book The Simple Heart Cure, you can surmount the biggest challenge of all and win your battle against heart disease.” — Scott Carpenter, Astronaut, NASA Mercury Project

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