"I want to remind people that if they're going to eat shrimp, and it is low fat, it's not going to help them if they fry it or eat in a high fat sauce or recipe, " said Barbara Howard of the American Heart Association.

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If they could eat wings doused with his original Death Sauce, they could stay.

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At MD Anderson Cancer Center, patients can have Froot Loops cereal and Louisiana Hot Sauce if that is what will get them to eat, says Carol Frankmann, director of clinical nutrition for the Houston hospital.

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He was making pizza with homemade dough for the young children of his second family, and his topping was a loose, watery, fresh tomato sauce, laced with anchovies and black olives, so piquant and delicious you could eat it by the spoonful and forgo the crust altogether.

NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior