The Best And Worst Diets For Your Heart

Dozens of diets are touted as ‘best’, but it’s easy to lose track of the fact that healthy eating needs to be about overall wellness, not just weight loss.

- Leslie Finlay

Coronary heart disease leads to the deaths of an estimated nine million people globally each year, so we asked Norman E. Lepor, MD, a cardiologist at Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, for the best—and worst diets for your heart.

Best: the Mediterranean Diet