Dr. Gupta’s Guide to Reduce Your Heart-Disease Risk

Stop Eating Before You're Full

Try to stop eating when you’re 80 percent full. In Japan, they call this “hara hachi bu,” and the country has the lowest heart disease and stroke rate in the world.
           
“How much we eat is as important as what we eat,” Gupta says.

The best way to cut back? Eat slowly. “It takes about 15 minutes for your stomach to signal your brain that you’re full,” he says. “By that time, most of us have stuffed ourselves.”