Heart Health & Diet: Editorial from the BMJ & British Cardiovascular Society OpenHeart Journal

The paper mentions the Italian PREiMed study which advocates the Mediterranean diet. When my father had a pacemaker fitted in Rome, all the hospital patients were given a sachet of olive oil, at every meal.

@Winnie53 thanks for posting the link - As a Heart Patient who is trying to control my condition with a healthy diet and supplements only for over 5 years now. I keep reading things that reinforce my personal wellness plan is the right one for me. Where I did **** up, was listening to the Eat Well plate advice in Cardiac Rehab... dumping the carbs has certainly improved my quality of life and hopefully extended my hearts shelf life that little bit longer

On one hand they are recommending the Mediterranean diet as a healthy diet for CVD = low fat. Then it goes into -
"A recent ran-domised pilot study of a calorie unrestricted very low carbo-hydrate/high fat diet in overweight patients with type 2
diabetes or prediabetes resulted in a signifi cant improvement in glycaemic control and even discontinuation of diabetes medications within 3 months in comparison to amoderate carbohydrate, low-fat calorie-restricted diet ( consistent with guidelines from the American Diabetes Association), with no adverse effect on blood lipids. A critical review in Nutrition also concluded that dietary carbohydrate restriction is the “single most effective inter-vention for reducing all of the features of the metabolic syndrome” and should be the first approach in diabetes management with the very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet (<10% carbs) revealing the greatest falls in glycated hemoglobin and reduction in the use of medications with benefits occurring even without weight loss.
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With Heart diseases and Diabetes being such close partners in crime - the obvious solution, to me, is to judge CVD & Diabetes as co-conspirators disrupting the equilibrium of bodily function. The low Carb solution would appear to provide the best form of lock down for these two criminals.

Great minds think alike, I have that book and it is a wealth of information - even recommended it to a few friends who are now low carbing on Facebook. The other book I found informative was Jenny Ruhl Diet 101 The Truth About Low Carb Diets.

Wow, I really wish you the very best with your diabetes group, that will be so rewarding. Please keep the updates flowing on your progress, would love to hear how it grows.