Balancing Your Hormones With Neal Barnard, MD

The only snag: you can’t lower your CAC score with the orthodox approach of a low-fat diet and medication. You need to follow the Eat Rich, Live Long plan, especially reducing your insulin by eating a low-carb, high-fat diet.

How to use: Eat one huge “fatty salad” daily, which is a salad filled with organic dark leafy greens like kale, arugula, romaine lettuce, or spinach, and doused with extra-virgin olive oil. Avoid nutrient-poor varieties like iceberg lettuce, which is essentially just water and fiber. There will be more “fatty salad” options in the recipe section

These include eating a diet that is high in natural fiber, lean protein, nuts, seeds, fruit, legumes, and antioxidants, and low in processed carbohydrates (I’ll reiterate details in this entry for ease of use).

1. Eliminate refined carbohydrates and sugars from your diet.