DR. CHAUNCEY CRANDALL IV, M.D., F.A.C.C. is a world-renowned Cardiologist practicing medicine in Palm Beach Florida, as well as the author of The Simple Heart Cure: The 90-Day Program to Stop & Reverse Heart Disease, Touching Heaven and Raising the Dead. He also writes a popular monthly newsletter which is published by Newsmax Media: Dr. Crandall’s Heart Health Report. He has been heralded for his values and message of hope to all his patients. 

Dr. Crandall is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Heart New York and the Director of Preventive Medicine and Complex Cardiology at the Mount Sinai Heart New York–Palm Beach, FL. Dr. Crandall practices interventional, vascular, and transplant cardiology. 

Dr. Crandall received his post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine where he also completed three years of research in the Cardiovascular Surgery Division. Dr. Crandall completed his Cardiology Fellowship training at Beth Israel Hospital and Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City and completed advanced Interventional Cardiology Fellowship training at the Medical College of Virginia. 

Following his Interventional Fellowship training, Dr. Crandall remained at the Medical College of Virginia for six years as Assistant Professor of Medicine and as Chief of the Heart Transplant Program, Director of Medical Education and Director of Cardiac Critical Care. In 1993, Dr. Crandall accepted a Faculty Professor appointment at the Duke University School of Medicine Cardiovascular Division and relocated to Palm Beach, Florida where he established the Duke University Interventional Cardiology Program – Palm Beach. Dr. Crandall has continued his private and academic practice in the Palm Beach area and is currently on staff at the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Jupiter Medical Center, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. 

Dr. Crandall has lectured both nationally and internationally on topics that include heart transplantation, interventional cardiology, preventive cardiology, cardiology health care of the elderly and medical care to the poor in third world nations. He speaks regularly to professional groups and with the speaking team of international evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. Dr. Crandall is also Chairman of the non-profit Chadwick Foundation and devotes extensive time to missionary based medicine and education in the Caribbean, Africa, South America, Europe, and Haiti. 

Chauncey Crandall IV, M.D. is an eleventh generation American, born and raised in Virginia just outside Washington D.C. His background includes seven generations of ministers, some of which helped birth religious freedom in the New World. Dr. Crandall runs after all that God has to offer and is not afraid to walk firmly in his faith. He walks in bold humility and his faith in God has led him to see countless miracles. He lectures and ministers on a national and international level. He is committed to his Savior, the power of the Holy Spirit, and his family.

https://chaunceycrandall.com/ 

http://crandallreport.com/

Charlotte Libov (Miami Beach, FL) is an award-winning health book author and a pioneer in the field of patient advocacy. Her first book, THE WOMEN'S HEART BOOK, was among the first to call attention to the problem of heart disease in women, and was made into a groundbreaking PBS special – "Women’s Hearts at Risk" – in which she appeared as part of an expert panel. She is also the author of the following books: THE CANCER SURVIVAL GUIDE (ASJA's Self-Help Health Book of the Year 2017), A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO HEART ATTACK RECOVERY, BEAT YOUR RISK FACTORS, 50 ESSENTIAL THINGS TO DO WHEN THE DOCTORS SAYS IT'S HEART DISEASE, and 50 ESSENTIAL THINGS TO DO WHEN THE DOCTORS SAYS IT'S A MIGRAINE. A popular motivational speaker, she has given talks for Toyota, IBM, and the Biotech International Organization, and has appeared as a keynote speaker for the US Army War College, the American Heart Association, Duke University Medical School, Women in International Trade, and at other hospitals and organizations throughout the country. Libov's byline has appeared regularly in Newsmax magazine, NewsmaxHealth.com, WebMD.com, HealthRevolution.com, CURE.com, AARP.com, GoodHousekeeping.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and many other top websites and publications. She is also a former New York Times regular contributor. Articles about Charlotte Libov and her books have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, The Times-Picayune, and many more; and her TV and radio appearances include: PBS, NPR, Fox Morning News, Today in New York, NewsChannel 8 (Washington TV), CNN Radio, CBS Radio, USA Today-Sky Radio, The Jim Bohannon Show, and many more. Libov has a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from the University of Oregon. She served as a spokesperson for the Tea Council of the U.S, her photography is exhibited in gallery shows and is also in private collections, and she is a singer.

http://www.libov.com/charlotte/index.html 

http://preventingheartdiseaseinwomen.blogspot.com/ 

The author lives & works in the Miami metro area.

Chapter One of THE SIMPLE HEART CURE DIET AND MEAL PLAN by Dr Chauncey Crandall

Let's Get Started!

For my lifetime diet plan, I reviewed many diets, and twotypes stood out: the plant-based heart disease reversal dietand the Mediterranean diet.

Plant-Based Diets Can Reverse Heart Disease

In the 1990s, Dr. Dean Ornish and, a decade later, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn demonstrated that a strict, plant-based diet could actually reverse heart disease. 

Just what is a plant-based diet? It’s a diet concentrated on raw and cooked vegetables of every description, along with fresh fruit, whole grains, and legumes (beans). 

But these diets are strict, and what use is such a diet if it’s too difficult to stay on? 

Over the years, I have come to believe that a strictly plant-based diet is not the best choice for many people, unless they have very serious cardiovascular disease and there is no other option.

The Mediterranean Diet Is More Satisfying

On the other hand, the Mediterranean diet is one of the most studied and highly ranked diets in the world. It also contains foods in diets followed naturally by people living in the “BlueZones,” where an unusually high number of people who reach the age of 100 reside.

The problem is that the Mediterranean diet is more lenient than the plant-based heart reversal diets, so while it’s easier to stick to, many people find it difficult to lose weight with it.

The Solution? The Simple Heart Cure Diet

So this was my challenge: to create a diet that would take some aspects of plant-based eating and combine it with aspects of the Mediterranean diet, which, while tasty and satisfying, does not necessarily achieve weight loss. So I took aspects of both to create a diet that is not only satisfying and delicious but also heart healthy.

Goals of the Simple Heart Cure Diet

The Simple Heart Cure Diet also helps reverse and preventheart disease by reducing the following major heart diseaserisk factors:

• high cholesterol
• high blood pressure
• diabetes and pre-diabetes
• obesity

GOAL 1. Tackle High Cholesterol 

If you have even mildly elevated cholesterol, you are likely concerned about your doctor putting you on statin drugs, which lower cholesterol but also carry potential side effects.

For my patients without underlying heart disease, I recommend a total cholesterol count of under 170–200 mg/dl. People with coronary heart disease need to keep their total cholesterol reading below 150.

Getting to your goal weight, which for most people is the weight they were in high school, will result in lowering your cholesterol.

GOAL 2. Lower High Blood Pressure

Because my diet is rich in fruits and vegetables as well as fiber, it naturally lowers high blood pressure.

GOAL 3. Prevent or Reverse Diabetes

About 29 million Americans, or 9% of the population, have the metabolic disorder known as diabetes, yet millions of them are unaware of it.

In addition, millions of additional Americans also have insulin resistance, which is also referred to as “prediabetes.” This is sometimes also called “borderline” or “mild” diabetes, but don’t be fooled. People in this category almost invariably go on to develop full-blown diabetes and heart disease. So if you’re told you are insulin resistant, or have pre-diabetes, you have to treat the diagnosis just as seriously as if you had full-blown diabetes.

Losing weight on my diet will help you control your diabetes as well as prevent and even reverse it.

DR. CRANDALL’S MOTIVATIONAL TIP

Love Is the Greatest Motivator

Because I’m a cardiologist, my new patients often expect me to lecture them on the consequences that will befall them if they don’t lose weight. But fear of death can only motivate you for a little while. In the end, it’s what you truly love that determines whether or not you will take the steps to successfully lose weight. That is why love is the most powerful motivator in the world.

Do you love eating and drinking more than your family? More than what you might yet accomplish in your life? Have you given up, or do you want to live?

If you start eating as I’ve recommended, you’ll feel so much better that you’ll rediscover the joys in life. Eat right in order to live a life that’s truly worth living—that’s my Simple Heart Cure Diet Plan.