Stay off My Operating Table : A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day

For the past century, we’ve been bombarded with diet ads and advice from gurus and governments. Yet heart disease remains the #1 killer worldwide, and 88% of adults are metabolically unhealthy. Up to 95% of dieters gain back all the weight they lost while following both dietary guidelines and popular fitness fads. Here’s why they fail. Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. Whether low-carb or low-fat, the typical plan goes like this: restrict your food choices, exercise until exhaustion, and swallow stacks of supplements. These “solutions” do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you. Meanwhile, the healthcare industry fails to prevent chronic disease. Rather than showing people how to remain healthy and prevent illness through proper nutrition, the system offers drugs and surgery to manage symptoms. As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Philip Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed—metabolic health. What you eat determines how long and how well you live. Yet most doctors don’t learn that in medical school. And pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers have a vested interest in the public not knowing how to live and eat metabolically healthy. In Stay off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease and optimize your health, a system that the diet and drug industries don’t want you to know about. Unlike quick-fix, “7-day,” radical diets, Dr. Ovadia’s approach is a sustainable, long-term solution that works. This book teaches How most leading causes of death are rooted in metabolic disease How to measure and improve your metabolic health, from a doctor’s perspective How to eliminate your need for most supplements with a nutritionally complete diet How to eat metabolically healthy on any diet, from carnivore to vegan How light, everyday exercises benefit you more than brutal workouts How metabolic health holds the answer to most health, food, and fitness questions Whether you’ve suffered from chronic diseases or want to prevent them decades from now, Stay off My Operating Table will help you take back control of your health from the institutions and experts that have failed you. nutrition system to prevent and reverse disease. A doctor’s nutrition system to prevent and reverse disease. Foreword PART I THE STATE OF METABOLIC HEALTH Stay Off My Operating Table How I Lost 100 Pounds (and Forgot Everything I Learned about Fat) Cardiac Surgeon, Metabolic Health Advocate The Lifesaving Power of Metabolic Health How to Use This Book (Like You’ve Never Used Another Diet Book) But First, We’ve Got Some Debunking to Do The Twelve Myths They Want Us to Believe Even Doctors Believe These Myths! Myth #1: “Only obese people are metabolically unhealthy.” Myth #2: “The food pyramid is good for you.” Myth #3: “The food pyramid is based on good science.” Myth #4: “The people who produce our food want us to be healthy.” Myth #5: “Low-carb diets are bad for your heart.” Myth #6: “High cholesterol causes heart disease.” Myth #7: “Medications are the best treatment for medical issues.” Myth #8: “Diets work if you follow them.” Myth #9: “Trying to lose weight by restricting calories always works.” Myth #10: “The best way to burn calories is exercise.” Myth #11: “You can’t improve metabolic health conditions without medication.” Myth #12: “Health problems come with age.” So, Where Did All These Myths Come From? The System Is Broken (and What to Do About It) How the Medical System Actually Works It’s Time to Save Your Life How to Measure, Assess, and Improve your Metabolic Health The Five Markers of Metabolic Health Measure Before You Manage: How to Measure the Five Markers Metabolic Health Marker Maintenance Managing What You’ve Measured PART II PRINCIPLES OF METABOLIC HEALTH The Seven Principles of Metabolic Health Introducing the Seven Principles Principle 1: Reframe Health as a System, Not a Goal Principle 2: Eat Real Whole Food Principle 3: Make One Sustainable Change at a Time Principle 4: Move Principle 5: Sleep Enough Principle 6: Relieve Stress Principle 7: Get a Doctor Who Gets It PART III HOW TO EAT METABOLICALLY HEALTHY Tips, Tricks, and Tactics to Eat Metabolically Healthy Shopping List Hacks and Recipe Alternatives Dealing with Restaurants, Events, and Parties Making Healthy Choices . . . Most of the Time How to Eat Metabolically Healthy on Five Popular Diets How to Eat Metabolically Healthy on the Carnivore Diet How to Eat Metabolically Healthy on Keto, Paleo, Atkins, or Other Low-Carb Diets How to Eat Metabolically Healthy on the Mediterranean Diet How to Eat Metabolically Healthy on the Gluten-Free Diet How to Eat Metabolically Healthy on the Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Conclusion: Yes, You Can Eat Metabolically Healthy on These Diets A Day in the Life of a Metabolically Healthy Carnivore A Day in the Life of a Metabolically Healthy Gluten-Free Low-Carber A Day in the Life of a Metabolically Healthy Mediterranean Dieter A Day in the Life of a Metabolically Healthy Vegan Where to Next? Frequently Asked, Rarely Answered Questions about Metabolic Health General Metabolic Health FAQ Food and Diet FAQ Supplements FAQ Medications FAQ Hormonal Health FAQ Heart Issues FAQ Repairing the Damage FAQ Social Concerns FAQ Dealing with Doctors FAQ Ovadia Heart Health FAQ Metabolic Health for Life Your Next Steps If You Forget Everything Else, Remember This Acknowledgments About the Author What foods to put on your table so you don't end up on mine. For the past century, we've been bombarded with diet ads and advice from gurus and governments. Yet heart disease remains the #1 killer worldwide, and 88% of adults are metabolically unhealthy. Up to 95% of dieters gain back all the weight they lost while following both dietary guidelines and popular fitness fads. Here's why they fail. Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. Whether low-carb or low-fat, the typical plan goes like this: restrict your food choices, exercise until exhaustion, and swallow stacks of supplements. These "solutions" do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you. Meanwhile, the healthcare industry fails to prevent chronic disease. Rather than showing people how to remain healthy and prevent illness through proper nutrition, the system offers drugs and surgery to manage symptoms. As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Philip Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed--metabolic health.What you eat determines how long and how well you live. Yet most doctors don't learn that in medical school. And pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers have a vested interest in the public not knowing how to live and eat metabolically healthy.In Stay off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease and optimize your health, a system that the diet and drug industries don't want you to know about. Unlike quick-fix, "7-day," radical diets, Dr. Ovadia's approach is a sustainable, long-term solution that works. This book teaches: How most leading causes of death are rooted in metabolic disease. How to measure and improve your metabolic health, from a doctor's perspective. How to eliminate your need for most supplements with a nutritionally complete diet. How to eat metabolically healthy on any diet, from carnivore to vegan. How light, everyday exercises benefit you more than brutal workouts. How metabolic health holds the answer to most health, food, and fitness questions. Whether you've suffered from chronic diseases or want to prevent them decades from now, Stay off My Operating Table will help you take back control of your health from the institutions and experts that have failed you. A doctor's nutrition system to prevent and reverse disease-- Amazon.com. What foods to put on your table so you dont end up on mine For the past century, weve been bombarded with diet ads and advice from gurus and governments. Yet heart disease remains the #1 killer worldwide, and 88% of adults are metabolically unhealthy. Up to 95% of dieters gain back all the weight they lost while following both dietary guidelines and popular fitness fads. Heres why they fail. Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. Whether low-carb or low-fat, the typical plan goes like restrict your food choices, exercise until exhaustion, and swallow stacks of supplements. These solutions do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you. Meanwhile, the healthcare industry fails to prevent chronic disease. Rather than showing people how to remain healthy and prevent illness through proper nutrition, the system offers drugs and surgery to manage symptoms. As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Philip Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed metabolic health . What you eat determines how long and how well you live. Yet most doctors dont learn that in medical school. And pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers have a vested interest in the public not knowing how to live and eat metabolically healthy. In Stay off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease and optimize your health, a system that the diet and drug industries dont want you to know about. Unlike quick-fix, 7-day, radical diets, Dr. Ovadias approach is a sustainable, long-term solution that works. This book How most leading causes of death are rooted in metabolic diseaseHow to measure and improve your metabolic health, from a doctors perspectiveHow to eliminate your need for most supplements with a nutritionally complete dietHow to eat metabolically healthy on any diet, from carnivore to veganHow light, everyday exercises benefit you more than brutal workoutsHow metabolic health holds the answer to most health, food, and fitness questionsWhether youve suffered from chronic diseases or want to prevent them decades from now, Stay off My Operating Table will help you take back control of your health from the institutions and experts that have failed you. A doctors nutrition system to prevent and reverse disease