Stay off My Operating Table: A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day

by Philip Ovadia

I was led to believe that margarine is “heart healthy.” It’s not. It’s poison. Because of its artificially produced fat profile, our body is not able to consume its nutritional value.6,7 The highly processed fat in margarine disrupts the mitochondria.

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the more carbohydrates and less saturated fat that you consume, the greater your risk is of developing heart disease?20 Additionally, we know that insulin resistance and diabetes are contributing risk factors for developing heart disease.21 We also know that low-carbohydrate diets improve, and in some cases reverse, insulin resistance and diabetes.

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shift your perception from, “Ugh, I have to eat healthy again,” to, “I’m going to live a longer and better life because of this meal I’m about to eat.”

All-out sprinting for twenty seconds, five times, over a ten-minute period, twice a week is more effective than jogging slowly for two hours.