Save Your Heart, Lose Weight and Help Save the Planet: A dietary guide to prevent and reduce heart disease, lose weight (and help save the planet)

This book is for everyone who wants to improve their health and help save the planet. It contains a wealth of evidence-based information and dietary plans to help people who have heart or cardiovascular issues or who simply want to keep their heart healthy and prevent these disorders from developing. It provides an effective method for those who wish to lose weight and a way to significantly help combat climate change through diet.

Written in easy-to-understand, accessible language, Save Your Heart explains how heart, cardiovascular and weight problems are caused and provides step-by-step instructions on how to choose and follow one of four dietary options. Three of the options are preventive and the fourth has been scientifically shown to reduce or reverse existing heart problems. This option has also been shown to enable significant weight loss. Based on his extensive research following his own heart episode, Dr Byrne advocates a reduced-meat or vegetarian, low-fat diet, with plenty of vegetables, fruit and whole grains. He also includes useful mental strategies that will help you stick to your new diet and incorporate an exercise programme into your daily routine.

And what’s good for your heart and health is also good for the planet. These types of diets reduce greenhouse gas production and thereby help reduce climate change. They also support the recovery of our endangered and crucial wildlife populations.

Dr Charles Byrne graduated in medicine from King’s College Hospital Medical School, London. He trained in psychiatry at Western University in Canada and worked for many years as a consultant psychiatrist and clinical director of Roscommon mental health services in Ireland. His articles have been published in well-known medical and psychiatric journals.