A heart health nutrition scientist shares 3 subtle diet tweaks she made to prevent conditions like cardiovascular disease

Teona Gherasim

Professor Sarah Berry , a nutrition scientist who specializes in heart health, takes a balanced approach to her diet by focusing on the basics, like eating plenty of whole foods and avoiding refined sugar. But recently, she has experimented with tweaking her eating habits. She told Business Insider that emerging data has convinced her that how quickly we eat and at what time of day, could impact the risk of developing chronic diseases. "This is a really interesting area of research that I've