A Taste-Inspired Journey to Cardiovascular Health

Part cookbook, part nutrition handbook, The Kardea Gourmet guides your journey to heart healthy, delicious styles of eating.

The Kardea Gourmet is a collaboration of three people: a preventive cardiologist dedicated to keeping people healthy, a gourmet home chef, foodie and former chocolate executive with a cholesterol problem, and a registered dietitian who spends her days coaching people on heart healthy eating and weight loss.

Learn:
    • How to balance a daily love of food with long term heart health
    • Why low fat versus low carb is the wrong question
    • Gourmet heart healthy recipes & cooking techniques
    • Weight management strategies that work
    • The role of supplements like Omega-3s, fibers, plant sterols, and others
    • How to move from text to table
Natural solutions supporting:
    • Healthier cholesterol levels
    • Healthier blood pressure
    • Reduced inflammatory levels
    • Better glucose control
About the Authors
Dr. Richard Collins, MD Cardiologist

Over a long career as a cardiologist, Mayo Clinic-trained Dr. Richard Collins saw remarkable improvements in his profession’s ability to save lives. A continuous flow of advances in drugs and medical procedures allowed all cardiologists to improve their patients’ odds of survival and ...

Rob Leighton, Founder, Kardea Nutrition

His passion for good food is as much a part of Rob’s genetic code as is high cholesterol. When Rob turned 47, blood tests indicated his cholesterol levels bordered on high. This fact was hardly surprising. His mother’s cholesterol was high enough for her to participate in early clinic...

Susan Buckley, Registered Dietitian

Susan Buckley, a registered dietitian and nutrition educator, works daily with clients seeking to change their eating habits and eating ways. She integrates heart healthy nutrition and weight loss. Susan coaches based partly from personal experience. More than 15 years ago, she found herself 70 p...

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