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One Doctor's Prescription for a Healthy Heart

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At the same time, Ades also firmly believes that “no one can lose weight if they are always hungry”; thus, it’s best to burn more calories with exercise. Ades runs almost daily. He also cycles and, in winter, cross-country skis. He took up running soon after his student days, when he quit organized sports (baseball and lacrosse) and began packing a few pounds onto his 5’7” frame. “I was up well over 150 pounds,” says Ades, now a trim 145. “And I thought, ‘How am I going to keep fit?’” Adding runs a few times a week to a background of squash, tennis and basketball was the answer. He frequently competes in 5Ks and 10Ks and, in a few years, hopes to commemorate his 60th birthday by running his sixth marathon.

Ades is trim (which helps keep his LDL within healthy ranges), but he knows that his regular physical activity helps his heart in other ways as well. Research shows that regular physical activity also reduces triglycerides, another type of “bad” fat in the blood, and raises high-density lipoproteins (HDL), the so-called “good” cholesterol that scientists believe carries LDL back to the liver so the body can remove it from the blood. (And some scientists speculate that HDL may even extract LDL that’s already deposited into the plaque lining arteries.)

On a rainy day, Ades can be seen putting in his miles on the treadmill. “Phil doesn’t preach, but when people look out the window and see him taking off on his run, or look over and see him on the treadmill, it sends a powerful message,” says Patrick Savage, M.S., the senior exercise physiologist at Ades’s clinic.

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