Eat Healthily For A Good Heart, Say Experts

Instead, doctors are advised to promote the advantages of eating a healthy, Mediterranean-style diet and of stopping smoking. The opinion piece published in the journal Open Heart warns that focussing on calorie counting was a misguided approach that could undermine the benefits of simple lifestyle interventions. Dr Aseem Malhotra, from Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, James DiNicolantonio, from the Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas in the US, and Professor Simon Capewell, from the University of Liverpool, said research had shown many times over that lifestyle changes could improve one's health.