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This is the #1 diet for your heart

Ornish Lifestyle Medicine is a science-backed way to reverse heart disease—while making it easy for you to eat healthy.

Jan, 2026
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Your diet may be more powerful than you thought. In fact, Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, an eating plan designed by Dean Ornish, MD, a professor of medicine and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, can reverse heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer and other conditions. The program limits fat and encourages a diet filled with all-natural, plant-based nutrition.

Looking to get your eating habits on the right track and reverse heart disease? Check out the Ornish Lifestyle Medicine—tied for number 1 among best heart-healthy diets and tied for number 3 in best plant-based diets in the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Adopting this eating plan might be a lot easier than you think.

Written byTaylor Lupo.
Medically reviewed byMark Arredondo, MD.October, 2023

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