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One Doctor's Prescription for a Healthy Heart

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Pictured Recipe: Rigatoni with Beef & Eggplant Ragu

When it comes to Ades’s patients, Farnham’s story is the norm, not the exception. For example, “ZR,” a 53-year-old woman Ades writes about in EatingWell for a Healthy Heart, lost 8 of the 10 pounds she gained after menopause by following his healthy eating and exercise plan for just three months. In that time, she also improved triglycerides from a high 250 mg/dL to a “borderline” high 199 mg/dL, boosted her “good cholesterol” 5 points and lowered her total cholesterol from 235 to 213. “I feel more in control of my own health than I have in years,” she said. “I keep thinking of one day enjoying grandchildren as
my reward.”

Living well

Today, Phil Ades is where he wants to be. He combines research time with clinic time, and manages to spend nearly every evening with his family. He has held a number of ­national posts in cardiology, among them president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, recently renamed—due to his efforts—the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. He now calls a risk of heart disease a “call to arms,” rather than a “death sentence.”

And, perhaps best of all, in April he celebrated his 57th birthday, in perfect health.

—Marialisa Calta, a nationally syndicated food columnist, is a contributing editor for EatingWell.

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