- Dog the Bounty Hunter had a serious health scare last month that saw him diagnoses with a pulmonary embolism.
- Now, he's taking steps to improve his diet and cardiovascular health.
- Primarily, that includes cutting out 'white foods' from his diet.
Last month, Dog the Bounty Hunter had a health scare that saw him rushed to the hospital for chest pains, revealing his diagnosis of a more serious condition: a pulmonary embolism.
A pulmonary embolism is a serious ailment that occurs when an unnecessary blood clot forms, and travels to eventually attach itself to an artery in your lungs. This can affect the exchange or oxygen between the lungs and the heart, and can damage vital organs, or even lead to death. According to a study from Austria, 15% of people with pulmonary embolism end up dying as a result of it.
Now, Dog—real name Duane Chapman—is already taking steps to make sure he's not part of that 15%, as he told TMZ in a video that he's taking steps to improve his diet and the way he eats, cutting out "everything white" from his diet.
Assuming Chapman is referring to white foods, that means eliminating, or limiting the intake of processed foods like sugar, white flour, bread, and so on. Other unprocessed white foods, though, like parsnips, cauliflower, and some types of fish, can still be good for you.
In an interview with Dr. Oz, Dog called his pulmonary embolism condition a "ticking time bomb" if he didn't take steps to improve his heart heatlh, so that's just what he seems tobe doing by adjusting his diet. His September hospitalization didn't reveal that he'd suffered a heart attack, but he attributed it to a "broken heart," as his wife, Beth Chapman, died earlier this year.
“I thought I had a heart attack,” he told People. “I’m like, 'Beth, please quit squeezing my heart, please.' I thought it was it.”
