The South Asian Health Solution: A Culturally Tailored Guide to Lose Fat, Increase Energy and Avoid Disease

by Ronesh Sinha

You can fortify and protect your heart’s health by shifting your focus to controlling insulin and inflammation, which, when properly regulated, will help to prevent most life-threatening and disabling conditions that reduce longevity and impair quality of life.

Metabolic 6-pack: • Trim your waist circumference to less than 90 cm (35 inches) in males and 80 cm (31 inches) in females • Drop your triglyceride level to less than 100 mg/dL (1.13 mmol/L) • Raise your HDL cholesterol above 40 mg/dL (1.03 mmol/L) if you’re male and above 50 mg/dL (1.29 mmol/L) if you’re female • Reduce systolic BP (top number) at or below 120 and diastolic BP (bottom number) at or below 80 mm Hg • Decrease fasting blood glucose below 100mg/dL (5.6 mmol/L) and HbA1c less than 5.7% • Get hs-CRP level below 1.0 mg/dL