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One Doctor's Prescription for a Healthy Heart

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Reduce your risk for heart disease with 10 simple steps from Dr. Philip Ades, author of EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook.

By Marialisa Calta EatingWell May/June 2008

Healthy Habits | Changing Lives | Living Well | 10 Steps to Heart Health

It was the spring of 1969 and the phone in Philip Ades’s dorm hallway was ringing. He was a freshman pre-med student at the University of Maryland, 17 years old and, at the time, preoccupied with winning a spot as catcher on the varsity baseball team, passing organic chemistry, and girls. But there, on the phone, was a friend of the family’s, telling Phil that he had to hop a plane home to Brooklyn, that his father was ill.

“I don’t think I really asked any questions,” says Ades (pronounced AY-diss), recalling the event. “But I must have known something was up.” For one, he never remembered his dad ever getting sick; he was a trim, active 50-year-old who worked six days a week in a warehouse to support his wife and two sons. He could not remember his dad ever missing a day of work. And the plane, well, that seemed like an unnecessary luxury; Ades usually traveled between home and school by Greyhound.

As the cab from the airport pulled up to the house, the young Ades noticed a long line of cars parked outside. His brother and a close family friend emerged, embracing him and telling him the sad news: his father had died of a massive heart attack.

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