“I cannot do the push-ups for you,” consultant cardiologist and lifestyle medicine practitioner Prof Robert Kelly tells patients. But he can help them develop healthy habits for self-care.
Habits that stick. Unlike the estimated 80 per cent of new year resolutions that are broken within less than three weeks.
Heart disease is the number one killer in Ireland. It can hit at any age, points out Prof Kelly, author of the newly published The Heart Book – Making Positive Changes for a Healthy and Happier Life (Orpen Press). The fragility of life was driven home to him during his last year in medical school, when he lost his 21-year-old brother to sudden cardiac…