Q: My husband has type 2 diabetes as well as congestive heart failure. He is 67.5 years old, is 5′7″ and weighs 313 lbs. Is there a place where I can get recipes that deal with all three issues?
A: It is well established that a Mediterranean style diet can help control diabetes. Likewise, this can help lower cholesterol, raise HDL (good) cholesterol, lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and lower blood pressure. For our patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) we generally want them to be on a low sodium diet as well, which limits the patient to 1,500 milligrams per day of sodium. Diabetes and CHF
