In this episode we will talk about reversing heart disease and chronic disease with nutrition.
How eating a plant based diet can save your life.
Saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol factors.
Is heart disease reversible?
When does your body start building up plaque?
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Clarissa
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Do you wish there was a way to lose weight without feeling so hungry, having ways to cope with stress,
without turning to food, or even having increased energy to take on the day because your health
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Welcome to the miracles. And one is podcast. My name is Clarissa Booker and I’m the life and wellness
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Hey there, friends. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Yes. It’s always wonderful to see
family to enjoy the festivities. Just all the things. All right. So we’re going to kick off a series on why you
should go plant face. And as I was saying before, you could take that as being vegan, vegetarian, or just
eating a predominantly plant-based way of eating. And today we’re going to talk about how plant based
eating can help with disease prevention. So who loves to go from this sad way of eating, which is a
standard American diet, and that is kind of a good term for it, because it will make you sad when you get
sick to a whole food plant base. And I say whole food, because it’s not just about eating plant-based
right, because you could just get all kinds of processed meats. And even though it’s, plant-based, it’s still
not the best, right?
Because it’s still going to be highly processed. And the goal is to try to move away from as much
processed food as we can have. Right. Cause if it’s a plant-based meat, think about what it had to go
through to have you get that taste or make it feel similar. Right. So have like extra additives in it, like a
lot of extra sugar, salt oil, and then those extra calories that we don’t need coming from different
sources. Right? It’s different if it’s calorie density in is coming from your whole grains, legumes and
veggies and all those things. But whenever it’s like sugar calories, it’s just a different thing. So that goes
by back to it, not just being about counting your calories, all about the quality of the food that you are
consuming, but it’s a nice segue. If you are trying to go more plant-based and if that’s how you want to
take the route, then by all means you can start that way. But then over time, reduce the, the process
meats, right. Just kind of reducing that. And that might take you some time, but it is a step in the right
direction, right? Because at the end of the day, we do want to try to have the whole food, the whole
food way, right?
Because there has been countless studies done that do show when we consume more processed foods,
meat, dairy, and just different animal products in general, it is a major contributor to chronic disease.
Right. And that’s just the way it is. And then, you know, that can lead you to prescriptions. Those
medications aren’t really healing you. Right. They’re just suppressing those symptoms. Right. But we’re
going to get to the root cause and just start healing. This is going to go back to our nutrition. It’s one of
the major components, right guys. And so we have the power to improve ourselves, right? We can, our
health, a lot of times in our hands, that’s why they call them lifestyle diseases. All right. So we can
prevent stop. And sometimes, you know, a lot of cases reverse it. I mean, even in one study, there was
participants with moderate to severe heart disease.
There weren’t any surgeries or any stints or anything like that, you know, just simple diet and lifestyle
changes. And within a few weeks, 90% of the chest pain diminished. And after just a month, blood flow
to the heart improved after a year, even severely blocked arteries reopened, okay. That is the power of
your diet, right? What you eat. And I just want to say the word diet, you hear me say lifestyle nutrition,
because that’s what it is. It is a lifestyle I don’t ever want you to think of anything. It’s like a diet and
that’s starts messing with your head, right? And plant-based diets want a benefit in your heart because
there’s no dietary cholesterol, right? It’s gone very little saturated, fat, lots of fiber, all this stuff, right?
The meat, the cheese and the eggs is packed with cholesterol, right? It gives it to you, the saturated fat,
while this stuff is what is going to give you a plaque, right?
That’s gonna give you that buildup in your arteries. And then eventually it’s gonna lead to heart disease.
So in it takes, right. It doesn’t just happen overnight. Even if there’s somebody who had a sudden cardiac
death, when a death occurs within about an hour or so of a symptom that’s onset it’s that you didn’t
even realize that you are a risk and it’s too late, but it was building up and growing inside of your body.
You know, it’s like all the years that you’ve been eating a certain way, all of the years that you’ve been
sedentary or the lack day of, or that built up stress, or somebody is just sitting there when they might
get praised for being a workaholic and it’s stressing them out like crazy. And then they die young. All of
these things affect you, right? They affect your health. So it was never just, it happened today.
I mean, because sometimes you see people live their life in a certain manner and they’ll be like, well, I
just went to the doctor and he said he was fine, but do you really want to wait until it gets to the point
that you get a diagnosis? Gnosis you don’t want that. You want to check that now. All right. Look. Even
more than 27 years of data, we’ll link eating more animal fat to higher risk of stroke. And the fat from
vegetable sources lowers the risk. I mean, you could just look it up, right? So is it really worth it going
and just filling your whole plate up? You know, it’s, it’s, it’s usually the reverse a lot of times when you
go out or when you, somebody is making some dinner, sometimes the meat, like the animal product is
the center of the plate.
And there’ll be like, sprinkles of broccoli. You see that, like the broccoli’s like the garnish instead of
having that reverse white making about 80% of your plate plan phase with some legumes on there, the
vegetables on there, just some starchy veggies, all those things. And then if you want the animal protein
making that smaller, maybe like the Palm of your hand, or just a lot smaller, right? If that’s, if you want
to add that in and the earlier you do the better. So even if you have children trying to get them to
incorporate more plant-based foods, you know, cause the earlier you start it, the more, the more of you
lower your risk of heart disease, right? Lower your inflation, lower your LDL cholesterol oil levels. So
pretty much we have a choice, right? Our life is full of choices. It’s about that journey, right?
And so you still can enjoy food and make everything yummy, you know, and it’s all, you know, and that’s
not to say you can’t overindulge once in a blue moon. Right? So just being mindful of what we put on
our fork, right. To avoiding the trans fats, the saturated fats, the cholesterol heavy foods, right. All that
stuff is going to clog up our arteries. And when you think about it, it starts when you’re a chick, when
you’re a kid right. In childhood, because depending on how you’re growing up and when you’re eating,
you’re already starting to get those arteries going right. Are starting to get those little fatty streaks in
there. Some children by the time they’re 10 Ari have these fatty streaks. Right. So then when you’re old
enough, it’s not whether he wants to prevent it. It’s whether you want to start reversing it.
Okay. And then you can go even farther to say that when we are pregnant, how we choose to eat, right.
Sometimes we just want to eat whatever we want just because we’re pregnant. Then we know that
everything that we consume goes to our child, that we are carrying. So that’s also another reason to just
be mindful of the food that we’re consuming. Not saying that anybody would ever do anything on
purpose, but it’s just that you’re sometimes you’re just not aware sometimes just in the moment when
you’re having these cravings, you like, let let do. And we had it, let me have that right there. Okay. And
that’s okay. Sometimes of course, enjoy and appreciate the gift that she was given by God, because it is
a blessing. Okay. But just, you know, being mindful of their day to day activities, you know, it’ll and just
make you enjoy everything even more so for us to reduce our LDL or, you know, the bad cholesterol is
decreasing or removing those trans fats, right.
And those trans fats coming from your processed foods naturally from meat, your dairy, saturated, fat,
all of these things is coming from where mainly your animal products and your junk foods, you know,
those quick fix things, you know, things that a lot of times you were told that you need. And first of all,
you need protein from everything. I know everybody’s like protein, protein, protein, and plant products
still have protein in it. That’s another story. That’s another day. But, and you’ll notice that people who
traditionally eat more whole food plants, you know, they do not suffer as much from the chronic
diseases. And you cannot count the number of people I know, or that have been clients of mine that
have had a health condition, you know, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, all the things. I
mean, sometimes you just plug one out and put it in with the other, these lifestyle diseases, these
conditions.
And then they start incorporating more plants on their plate. And for one, they start feeling absolutely
amazing. Whether you are concerned about disease, your weight, energy, just all the things. Once you
start incorporating this as a lifestyle, you will just notice that you start feeling amazing. And then you
might go to the doctor one day, they’d be like, oh, your blood pressure is looking good. It’d be like, and
there’ll be an enemy, like wonder what’s going on. Right. And it’d be like, I improve my life. Right. And I
feel absolutely amazing about it. So given the right conditions, the body is capable of healing itself.
These studies say that when patients stopped eating the artery, clogging diet, their bodies were able to
start dissolving away some of the plaque and start healing. It’s like, your body just wants to take care of
you. It wants to heal.
So as you were taking care of your children and your family and your loved ones, always remember to
put yourself first, right? We are so worried about taking care of everybody else. Sometimes we neglect
ourselves, right? Sometimes we’re busy working. We have these projects, we’re trying to do delegate
tasks off to other people. If you need to, do you have a team? Let some of them handle the things free
up that time for yourself. Right. You know, you got, tell your kids, look, mommy needs a minute. I need a
minute right now, your husband, your spouse, whoever it is. Right. But you got to put yourself first
because ultimately your body will just start opening up, you know? And you don’t necessarily need the
drugs. Sometimes people go on drugs because they refuse to do the lifestyle changes. Right. And then
sadly, we still see them sometimes pass away, 10 years gone off their life.
15 years gone off their life. Right. But you so deserve it. I want that for you. Okay. And you can have it.
It’s just taking some simple little things, just stopping with one day at a time. Right? I say, give yourself
grace. But at the same time, you gotta kick yourself in the butt. If you need it. Right. Sometimes you’ll be
like, I’m going to give myself all the grace. Okay. And that Grace May last forever. I mean, do the work
start making the changes you need to do that. You know, you need to do, or just talk to a coach. If you
have to, you know, if you cannot do on your own, I get it. Right. Things get in the way, especially if
you’re in a home and you’re the only one that wants to make the change. Everybody can benefit from it.
But you be strong enough.
You be that one to start the cycle, right? You be the one to stop, whatever that is, that needs to be
broken. You, you rewrite it. You rewrite history started going, you start that up and just make some
changes. Right? Look today, or sometime this week, just start with one meal. If you’re new, right. Put
starches and fruit to the center of your plate, right? Enjoy non starchy and leafy veggies, different
amounts, just, you know, have a variety, eat the rainbow, right. Have a multiple of different flavors on
there. Right? Um, carbohydrate, rich, whole grains, right? Beans, fruits, starchy veggies, just all the
things. Just get a nice variety on there and expect to eat more food. Right? Don’t deprive yourself, eat
more. Your body will love it. Whole a minimally processed plant foods are dense in nutrients and not
calories, right? So you don’t that it goes back.
You don’t need to count your calories, just eat nutrient dense foods, right. Foods that, and it’ll fill you
up. You just can, you can eat as much as you want. You don’t worry about it, right. No need to do the
county and just make it enjoyable. You don’t need to add any extra oils, you know, just worry about
enjoying your, just try to avoid or minimize, you know, like bleach flowers, the bread, like white bread,
white pasta dairy, which can, you know, a lot of people are lactose intolerant and they don’t even realize
it because they’re just told to drink milk ever since you’re little eggs, the meat, poultry, seafood refined
sweeteners, white rice, the whole food plant-based diet is going to be centered on whole unrefined or
minimally refined plant foods. Right? It’s fruits, veggies, whole grains legumes, you know, and it excludes
or minimizes the meat that includes chicken or fish, but you do if you’re not.
So it is different than being a complete vegan. Cause they’re not going to eat any animal products at all.
But if you’re not ready to be vegan, you can do whole food. Plant-based right. Where if you want to have
minimally animal products, you can, but we want to do is remove the processed foods. And sometimes
when you’re vegan, you still eat the full meat, the processed meat. And that’s what we want to try to
avoid. Okay. Cause I was, I was saying it has all the little additives and the sugars and all the things in it,
the oils. Okay. So I hope that helped. We’re going to do a series on plant based eating over the next, um,
week or so. So he can let me know any questions you might have. I would love to know and don’t forget
to leave a written review. I love to see them and also make sure you put your name on the waitlist for
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