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Date: | Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:27:39 -0400 |
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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
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