Mostly I'm just sending this message because I haven't gotten one in so
long that I'm wondering if I got unsubscribed.  But seriously...

Sunday I heard a commercial for Dateline NBC where they said they were
going to talk about some folks who "healed their heart disease" using a
revolutionary new diet.  That kind of got my hopes up.  Then I watched the
show, and it turned out to be Ornish.  The program he put these people on
was a almost zero-fat vegetarian diet, rigorous exercise, and yoga and
stress management sessions.  I wondered where people stressed enough to
need that found time for it.  But anyway, one of the patients had a
blockage worsen in the artery that had received an angioplasty, but
supposedly the rest of his problem areas had cleared up.  The length of the
story was one year.  Now I know they wouldn't have put it on TV unless it
looked like a success, but I just wonder how it worked.  We're all pretty
convinced here that low-fat, high-carb diets add to the problem.  Is it
that the term was too short?  Or is there something I don't know about that
Ornish regime?

John Pavao