This book is a husband and wife physicians' "Battle Plan"; a guide to healthy, functional longevity. How couples can become mutually supportive "Battle Buddies" to combat and reverse the many lethal obesity related diseases, like: ASCVD, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke and cancers. Excessive abdominal fat and eating the wrong foods leads to a disease-ridden life and premature death. If you have a waist larger than your hips, male or female, or even if you are thin or normal weight, but eat the wrong foods; it is the same as being diagnosed with slowly progressive cancer. Excessive truncal obesity and eating the "Western Diet" causes predictable progressive illnesses, leading to multiple medications, hospitalizations, surgeries, loss of independence, and an agonizing premature death. Afflicted patients become invalids umbilicated to the medical care system, suffering and struggling just to stay alive. People can absolutely avoid and even reverse these diseases and their sequelae with the right foods and life-style. Learn how two married physicians researched the medical literature and created a simple 4 week program of permanent diet and life-style change to insure a functional, disease-free life. Learn what these two "Battle Buddy" doctors found out and successfully applied to their own lives. Learn the truth about food; the 12 lethal foods, and what you should eat the rest of your life. This book is their "Battle Plan"; a guide of practical strategies and simple rules that lead to permanent healthy changes in your daily life, for you, as a couple, and as a family. Learn how to protect your children from the dangers of lethal foods and obesity. Adapting THE BATTLE BUDDY DIET program means you will lose weight; have improved blood work, lower blood pressure, and increased energy in just 4 weeks. Learn how to become "Battle Buddies" with your domestic partner and battle to reclaim your health and that of your family's. This is lifesaving information your own doctor doesn't know. These are the facts and the only proven way to reclaim your life and health. THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK YOU EVER READ.
About the Author: BIOGRAPHY R.D. SLAY, M.D. Colonel (RET) Robert Slay M.D. USA is a practicing Emergency physician, who is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the Medical College of Virginia. He served in the U. S. Army as an emergency physician for twenty two years. He was a member of the elite Delta Force, and retired as a Colonel. Dr. Slay has contributed to several textbooks in Emergency Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine, and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and currently serves as an oral examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Slay has extensively researched nutrition and life-style, aided and abetted by his wife, and "Battle Buddy", Gayne Brenneman, M.D. Dr. Slay has become frustrated in his Emergency Medicine practice taking care of the end stage of diseases brought on by obesity, lethal foods and unhealthy life-style. The tsunami of sick baby boomers flooding the ER with self-induced diseases is only increasing. Taking care of them "feels like trying to put a band aid on a bleeding artery: "Too little, too late" After researching the medical literature, Dr. Slay and his wife realized they were at risk for the same obesity linked diseases, because they had truncal obesity and ate the wrong foods. They developed their own program of healthy nutrition, and life-style, THE BATTLE BUDDY DIET, and applied it to their own lives and became remarkably healthier and happier in just 4 weeks. Their physician colleagues, woefully ignorant about nutrition and life-style, wanted to know, "How did you do it?" Dr. Slay decided to write the book, THE BATTLE BUDDY DIET, to educate physicians and patients on how to save their own lives and their children's. He and his wife are convinced that couples can do it together as "Battle Buddies" relying on mutual commitment and support, in only 4 weeks. Dr. Slay has written scripts for and acted in the reality based medical television show, "Untold Stories of the ER" for six episodes. He performs Emergency Room stand-up comedy as a hobby.