Dr Miriam Achebe-Hart
cardiologist
Precise; speaks in absolute risk
Numbers on a Page
Pete avoids doctors and diets. A workplace health check sends him a page of numbers and a flood of opinions.
Planned · not started yet
Health & medicine Living with uncertainty Competing advice Hard choices Hospital or clinic Family home Bracing Lightly witty
The premise
Pete avoids doctors and diets. A workplace health check sends him a page of numbers and a flood of opinions. Over two years he learns what each number predicts, what actually changes it and by how much, while his wife quietly keeps the food diary he pretends not to need.
The protagonist
Pete Lomax — 45-year-old delivery driver told his blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and weight are all borderline
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Callie Rourke
registered dietitian
Practical; food habits over food rules
Dr Jens Hallorann
behaviour-change researcher
Gentle; small changes stick
Dr Yusuf Ellery
endocrinologist
Evidence-led; open about what is still unknown
How the story moves
Two years of Pete’s health; his marriage and shifts shape what he can change, and a scare in Book 4 changes his attitude more than any number did. Absorbs the former Plate concept.
What readers take away
- Interpret blood-pressure readings and home monitoring
- Understand cholesterol and lipid tests
- HbA1c, prediabetes and type 2 diabetes
- How cardiovascular risk scores work
- Realistic effect sizes of diet, exercise and alcohol change
- Nutrition principles for blood sugar and weight
- Medication options, including newer weight-loss drugs
- Side effects and adherence
- Sustaining change over years
- Read a lipid panel line by line
- Understand statins’ benefits and side-effect evidence
- Plan realistic physical activity around shift work
The books
- 1The health check Planned
- 2Blood pressure Planned
- 3Blood sugar Planned
- 4The plate Planned
- 5The prescription Planned
- 6Two years on Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.