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In operating rooms across the country, surgeons like Dr. Philip Ovadia are opening chests and finding the same story written inside people\u2019s arteries: soft, unstable plaque sitting like a time bomb, fed for years by blood sugar spikes and chronic inflammation. Not just from obvious junk food, but from the refined carbohydrates hiding in \u201clow-fat,\u201d \u201cwhole grain,\u201d and \u201cheart-healthy\u201d labels that rarely mention what they do to insulin. Cereal for breakfast, a bagel at lunch, crackers and juice as a snack \u2014 each one digested fast, fiber stripped away, sugar rushing into the bloodstream.<\/p>\n

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Over time, that pattern quietly reshapes the body\u2019s chemistry, driving insulin resistance, weight gain, and the inflammatory environment where plaque grows and ruptures. The alternative isn\u2019t a life of deprivation, but a deliberate shift: more vegetables, olive oil, fish, nuts, eggs, and unprocessed meats; fewer boxes, bags, and instant mixes. Reading labels, cutting added sugars, and building meals around real food can slowly reverse course. Heart disease rarely arrives overnight \u2014 and that delay is exactly the window where change still matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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