Heart to Heart: Q & A with A Plant-Based Cardiologist | Chef AJ LIVE! with Dr. Koushik Reddy

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  6. Hello everyone,
    There seems to be some confusion about my message regarding oils. When compared to saturated fat, animal based oils, and butter, oils such as EVOO offer significant cardiovascular health benefit. There is large body of data in favor of this. Hence the support from all cardiovascular societal guidelines. However, oils by themselves are not health promoting and come with high caloric burden. One has to exercise caution and keep the consumption as low as possible, especially if in the process of losing weight. Same is true for processed sugars and added salt. Nothing uniquely health promoting about them. The message is to keep the consumption to as little as possible.

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  8. I am probably the only human on earth that actually measures the amount of wine I have when i do drink it, which is once or twice a year. I take my measuring cup and measure 5 ounces and that is all I allow myself. I have the red wine with a meal and drink it slowly, savour the taste knowing that I only have 5 ounces to enjoy.

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  9. I think on the whole it's better to say something like, 'as little as possible (for sugar, oil, salt) down to zero although a tiny amount would be tolerated by the body' instead of stressing that a little is all right. Vagueness, vastly differing ideas of what constitutes a little, slippery slopes, people pressing one to eat unhealthy food saying a little doesn't matter: so many possible pitfalls. Yes a little – that chimerical enigma, not defined – probably doesn't matter yet I try for none. By trying for none sometimes I do get a bit but really do try for none. And as chef AJ said, it's not necessary to add oily dressings etc. because equally delicious ones could be made with ground nuts.
    But of course for sugar, oil, salt, refined foods "compared with what?" and "the dose makes the poison" are good adages I think. Well thanks for a good video.

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  10. People I know who say they've cut down on the fat, sugar, salt and processed foods in fact eat large amounts of them. Self-reporting is hopelessly optimistic. I'd guess that maybe 5% of the human population has the willpower to eat just a small amount for a lifetime in a world with buckets of these foods everywhere. For 95%, it's all or nothing; nothing in between is sustained.

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  11. He's a good doctor, a good man. But the solution isn't to pay doctors $500,000 instead of $150,000 for converting people to healthy lifestyles. It's to eliminate the doctors' option to earn $500,000 not converting people. We already spend 20% of GDP on the medical business. We spend way too much, and on the wrong things.

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  12. Chef AJ, this interview is the very best. You handled the differences in views very well. I really think Dr. Reddy has shared more information than any other doctor you've interviewed. He is very convincing . I can see that he is able to convert his patients to a life style change. He gives them the facts with compassion.

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  13. Hi. I was just watching one of your videos with Chelsea and you posted a link to oat groats on Amazon. I wanted to tell you I get mine from Azure Market and they are a 1/3 of the price or even less if you buy in bulk. Now they don't deliver to your house I don't think but will to a place near you.

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  14. Perhaps you could request that your viewers to go to the CBS website and leave a comment for the 60 Minutes show asking that they do a story on Medicare's Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation program that was started in 2010. This free program teaches heart disease patients how to reverse their disease with better nutrition and lifestyle choices. As Dr. Reddy notes, we could suggest that it would be a very timely story since heart disease remains the leading killer of Americans even during a pandemic. Isn't heart disease a pandemic worthy of some investigative reporting? They could perhaps frame the story with a review of the story that 60 Minutes did back in the 1970s about the Nathan Pritikin program in California that followed several heart disease patients that reversed their disease. This was the television show that Dr. Greger's grandmother watched and was inspired to visit Pritikin and heal her own end stage heart disease. Is it possible that a few hundred of your viewers could help to change the course of American health history? Cheers!

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  19. What a marvelous doctor who clearly walks his talk. I appreciate his take on wfp predominant eating, his take on appropriate use of medications and operations, his expectation that people will do as asked when it comes to eating a whole foods plant predominant diet, as he calls it. He has the results of studies off the top of his head. Though I don’t agree with him regarding the use of oils nor salt, I would be dumb to throw out the baby with the bathwater; his view of the natural sodium we find in plant foods was welcomed. I do believe he must be practical and I don’t believe in cancel culture. Thank goodness our veterans are in great hands with Dr. Reddy! We often wonder why there aren’t more cardiologists who follow his path which includes Lifestyle Medicine, however you keep coming up with more as guests on your show, Chef AJ! It’s very, very encouraging. Thank you!

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