We Should All Be Eating a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet
Our bodies are ticking time bombs
I’ve been publishing my work online for the masses on Medium since October 2018, and during that time, I spent a lot of time writing about my diet and weight. Like many people these days, I used to spend so much time obsessing about every little thing I ate and trying all the latest trends and diets.
Of all the fad diets — paleo, keto, carnivore, caveman, Mediterranean — intermittent fasting and cutting out sugar was the only thing that seemed to work. And I knew those low-carb diets were not healthy. How healthy can only eating steak be?
No matter what diets I tried, the pills I took for my mental health kept me fat, and my motivation never allowed me to stick with any one plan for very long. As time went on, my midsection grew, and my blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol kept going up.
In 2022, I had an artery blockage and experienced a SCAD, in which the artery burst and I almost died. After an angioplasty and a stent that reconnected the ends of my burst artery, I promised that I would change my life and fix the reasons why I had a heart attack.
But I didn’t.
First of all, I didn’t have a clue where to start. My cardiologist said I didn’t need to do much…
