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In spite of billions of dollars spent on heart attack research, and diet’s apparent critical role in preventing heart attacks, very few scientific studies on diet’s role have been done

by Gina Colata

This is a watershed moment in the field of nutrition, medical experts say. For the first time, researchers have shown that a diet can have an effect as powerful as drugs in preventing what really matters to patients — heart attacks, and strokes and deaths from cardiovascular disease.

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