00:00Wellness House, it's good to see you this weekend. It's good to be back. My name is Dr. Columbus
00:10Batiste. I am an interventional cardiologist, aka the Healthy Heart Doc, on social media,
00:17and I always enjoy these sessions because wellness is the key. And so one of our viewers
00:21has a question. It's L in New Orleans. My family's from New Orleans. I grew up on red beans and rice
00:26and heading down there in Canal Street before heading out to California. She says, my mother
00:32and grandmother had heart attacks. Well, I get one too. How can I prevent this? Well, L, I'll tell
00:38you, you're not the only one who has this family DNA of heart attacks. We know it's the number one
00:44killer of men and women. And what we know is that in African-American community, we see an increased
00:50amount of heart attacks plagued throughout our society, right? And so what we know is that
00:57oftentimes it's not just your DNA. It's just not what's passed on genetically, but it's also what's
01:02passed along in the cookbooks. Now, I've seen some of the cookbooks. I've seen some of the recipes
01:08from down in New Orleans, right? And that food is amazing. But what we know is that when we move
01:15away from foods that have been shown to help our bodies, fruits and vegetables and whole grains,
01:22in other words, red beans and rice, that means collard greens without the ham hocks.
01:26What that means is the sweet potatoes without the marshmallows and the added sugar. Those are the
01:31foods that help you. The watermelon, the fruits, all the berries, all those things are phenomenal for
01:37helping your body. That can help us fuel the fire to fight disease. That's what we're trying to do.
01:43So you actually can prevent this by taking care of yourself. And I've said this in times gone by in
01:50the past, self actually means sleeping, right? Taking time for spirituality and that mindfulness
01:56that's there. E for exercise and moving a little bit more. L for love as opposed to hate. That's
02:02something we're lacking inside of our society in this world. And F is for food, real food, food that
02:08decays, food that will, will savor in your mouth, that your great, great grandparents would recognize
02:14what you want. So there is power and no, this does not have to be your destiny, L. So I look forward
02:20to you making the changes that you're looking to make. Here's we have a second question. This one
02:24comes from Crystal in Chicago. It says, is it true that fast food increases my chance of a heart attack?
02:32And if so, why? And I would say fast food is not bad. You know, as when I was a kid growing up, my mom,
02:39there were five of us. So she made fast food her own way. She made a batch of burritos, a batch of red
02:44beans, a batch of different things and put it in the freezer. And our job was to take it out and heat it
02:49real fast. That was fast food. But now what we're doing is we're going through these drive-thrus, these quick
02:55service that are high in salt, sugar, and fat that plague our communities and that are devoid of fresh
03:02fruits and vegetables. And we eat these things thinking that we're saving time. But what we're
03:07really doing is we're cutting our time on this earth. And so we have to be careful about those
03:12things. So I would encourage you to engage in fast food, but fast food that's prepared at home, fast food
03:18that has natural ingredients, fast food that's going to help energize your body. By doing this,
03:25you can actually stay away from people like me. You stay away from docs who are looking to do
03:30procedures. You stay away from docs who are giving you meds, unless you have to be on it, that now you
03:35take your power back and you feel the fire that helps you fight disease, feel the fire that helps you
03:42fight social change.
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