Prevent heart disease with this diet

Good morning,

Having landed in Spain after traveling with two kids for 20 hours straight and managing 6 pieces of luggage and two strollers, I wonder how someone unfit could handle such a whirlwind.

Every transformation must start with a strong "WHY" followed by commitment and focus.

Commitment means eliminating alternatives. Focus is measured by the number of times you say no to other things.

When your "WHY" is strong, committing and focusing becomes a piece of cake (no pun intended).

My dad wants to live longer. He wants to spend time with his grandchildren. He would do anything for another birthday or another summer vacation together.

That’s why we started focusing on an upgraded nutrition plan that emphasizes preventing atherosclerosis. I'm sharing it below.

The Mediterranean diet and has the greatest impact on cardiovascular health. It’s high in monounsaturated fats and low in processed foods and refined carbohydrates. However, if you google Mediterranean diet it will tell you:

Making one huge mistake: being agnostic to carbohydrate consumption.

This is something we want to regulate to avoid blood sugar spikes and metabolic inflexibility (Your body will not be able to use carbohydrates for fuel)

This is a very simplified example of what a heart healthy diet that also takes care of your waistline looks like:

Diet plays such an important role because heart disease is driven by inflammation, which is directly impacted by nutrition.

These are the other 2 elements besides diet that we will focus on to grow a healthy heart:

1. Sleep: This clears toxins and helps regulate blood sugar - there is a reason why evolution did not get rid of sleep.

2. Resistance training: This helps with glucose disposal - what you do with stored calories.

As you can see, blood sugar and what we do with glucose, plays a huge role.

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How did we do this?

• Carb backloading (only carbohydrates in the evening)

• Carb cycling (more carbohydrates on training days)

• Strategic deload weeks

When you are ready, there are two ways I can help you:

1. Are you an executive who wants to increase energy, decrease pain and take back control of your health? Click this link to apply to work 1-1 with me

2. Take my 2-minute science-based quiz that will give you clear guidance on the dos and don'ts for your body type, including what workout split to follow, when to eat, and which food groups to focus on

That’s it for today,

PS. Become an asset, not a liability to those around you!

Diego Carrete

Chief Executive Officer @ FIT LIFE FZCO

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