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  1. Garden Variety Anti-Inflammation Garden Variety Anti-Inflammation May 16, 2012

    The variety of fruit and vegetable consumption may decrease disease risk, independent of quantity.

  2. Hearts shouldn’t skip a beet Hearts shouldn’t skip a beet February 21, 2012

    The nitrate in vegetables, which the body can turn into the vasodilator nitric oxide, may help explain the role dark green leafy vegetables play in the prevention and treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure) and heart disease.

  3. Dietary guidelines: with a grain of Big Salt Dietary guidelines: with a grain of Big Salt October 21, 2011

    The National Dairy Council teams up with the Salt Institute to downplay the risk of sodium in the American diet.

  4. Resuscitating Medicare Resuscitating Medicare October 11, 2011

    Medicare is now accepting for reimbursement the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease and the Pritikin Program, which, on a personal note, is what inspired me to go into medicine.

  5. Update on Chocolate Update on Chocolate November 19, 2010

    Results of a major international scientific conference summarized