(Fort Washington, PA, Friday, January 29, 2021) – February is American Heart Month and world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston discusses how much diet impacts heart health and the overall benefits of a low-carb diet.

Dr. Agatston offers diet and lifestyle strategies to provide the best approach to decrease insulin levels and control obesity, high blood pressure, and excessive risk of infection and severe response to viruses such as COVID-19.

He can eliminate the guesswork to provide listeners a safe and healthy, sustainable weight loss plan that is low in carbs and sugar, and high in lean protein and healthy fats.

In his clinical practice, Dr. Agatston and his colleagues have integrated new information into our diet strategy with great success. There are still many nutrition myths that persist in the popular culture and even in much of the medical community. Most importantly, Dr. Agatston notes that insulin resistance is the core nutritional problem in America and the world today, and it starts many years before it is usually diagnosed. Addiction to sugar appears to be a major factor in the development of insulin resistance.

The South Beach Diet is a high-protein, low-carb meal delivery program designed to burn fat and transform your metabolism. Fully prepared meals are delivered safely to your door and the plan is easy-to-follow and flexible to fit any busy lifestyle. The step-by-step eating plan increases satisfaction, decreases appetite, and makes it easy to lose weight and keep it off.

Arthur Agatston, M.D., is the Medical Director of Wellness and Prevention for Baptist Health South Florida. A pioneer in cardiac disease prevention, Dr. Agatston worked with Dr. Warren Janowitz to formulate the Agatston Score, a method of screening for coronary calcium as an indicator of atherosclerosis that is used at medical centers throughout the world and considered by most experts to be the best single predictor of a future heart attack. Dr. Agatston is a clinical professor of medicine at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His cardiology practice in Miami Beach is focused on preventing heart attacks in high-risk patients. For more, go to www.southbeachdiet.com.