Research into the Mediterranean diet reflects how dietary fiber can affect measures like triglycerides.

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Eating a special diet called the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan can help protect your heart.

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Dr Ignarro recommended a combination of moderate exercise, low fat diet and easily available dietary supplements.

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But fat is also a fundamental, necessary component of the human diet, and only one piece of the complex dietary puzzle.

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Investigators in Spain randomized 7447 people at high risk for cardiovascular disease to one of three diets: a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts, or a control diet for which people were advised to lower their intake of dietary fat.

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Thereafter, participants assigned to the control diet received personalized advice and were invited to group sessions with the same frequency and intensity as those in the Mediterranean-diet groups, with the use of a separate 9-item dietary screener (Table S3 in the Supplementary Appendix).

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The Fresh Diet prepares three meals and two snacks a day for customers, adhering to dietary restrictions or helping them lose weight.

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And this winter, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued new dietary guidelines advising consumers to replace some of the meat in their diet with seafood.

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