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Heart Healthy Diet: How to Evaluate Your Patients

Heart Healthy Diet: How to Evaluate Your Patients

Guest: Kyla Lara-Breitinger, M.D.
Host: Stephen L. Kopecky, M.D.


Evaluating a patient’s dietary pattern can be challenging and not pragmatic when there are other clinical visit priorities for the limited time slot between a provider and the patient. Utilization of rapid dietary screeners can be helpful tools to gauge how heart healthy an individual’s eating pattern is.  There is not one specific cardioprotective diet that is superior to others. Limiting ultra-processed foods and prioritizing adequate protein intake from sources mostly from plants and low-saturated fat animal sources (lean poultry, fish, and seafood) should first be prioritized. This is especially important in the later decades of life when reduction in lean muscle mass and frailty increases risks for morbidity and mortality.

 

Topics Discussed:

  • How do you evaluate whether your patient is following a heart healthy dietary pattern?
  • What makes a cardioprotective diet different from other diets?
  • Is there a best diet or go-to-diet that is superior to all?
  • If you only had 5 minutes to discuss diet with your patients, what advice would you give?

Length: 00:00:00

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