Cardiologist loses 80 pounds sticking to plant-based diet
Chad Teeters, MD, a cardiologist in New York, lost 80 pounds since last spring after adopting a plant-based diet, the Buffalo News reports.
Teeters, the chief of cardiologist at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and used to weigh 310 pounds. He told the newspaper that he first became interested in a plant-based diet when he attended an American College of Cardiology conference last spring in Chicago.
Teeters said his diet consists of five to six daily servings of vegetables and that he only eats plant-based foods. He does not eat milk, cheese, dairy, eggs or meat.
Read the full article below:
Executive Editor
Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.