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Find out how a plant-based diet can help prevent heart disease

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, will present the second session of the Plant-Based Nutrition series Tuesday, Oct. 13, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building, Room 105. The session will focus on “The Ending of Heart Disease.” In 1995, Esselstyn published his benchmark long-term nutritional research on arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann, have followed a plant-based diet for the past 26 years. He directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. Registration for his second talk on plant-based diets is available online.