The Diet in Brief
Oddly enough, now that I've had my chest cracked open, and my heart fondled, I've found a diet that gives me great lipid panel scores. This is my understanding of the Esselstyn diet. Forgive me if I didn't get it right, but the test scores are pretty good, so I know it must be close. The basic meals are plane food, starting with boiled oat groats and ground flax put into it for breakfast. I do add some sweetener, as in three cut up dates (I leave the pits out), perhaps a bit of maple syrup. Lunch and dinner are basically the same soup which usually contains kale or spinach cooked for more than five minutes and I may add grains that I've cooked previously and left in a bowl in the refrigerator, so I can put some into each batch of soup. Millet is the only grain that's missing an amino acid (l-lysine) I usually add several of the four or five grains I hold in reserve. Barley, brown rice (I have both short and long grain), farro...