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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: You Can Stop Heart Disease | |
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| The Research Revolution | |
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| Heart-Saving Superfoods | |
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| Heart-Saving Supplements | |
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| Take This Book to Heart | |
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| What to Eat to Fight Heart Disease | |
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| How Arteries Get Clogged and How Food Can Stop It | |
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| The Foods Your Heart Likes Best | |
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| Fish: The Universal Heart Medicine | |
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| Garlic Turns Back the Clock on Clogged Arteries | |
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| Discover the Nutty Heart Drugs | |
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| Use Vegetable Power to Block Heart Attacks | |
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| Surprise! Tomatoes Fight Heart Disease | |
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| Fill Up on Fiber | |
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| Greens and Beans: More Magnesium | |
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| Try the Japanese Heart-Saving Diet | |
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| Why Mediterranean Hearts Are Stronger | |
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| Eat Olive Oil: The Heart-Safe Fat | |
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| Sure Way to Poison Arteries | |
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| A Tot a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | |
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| Stout-Hearted Frenchmen--Is It the Wine? | |
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| Drink Purple Grape Juice | |
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| Does Coffee Promote Heart Disease? | |
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| What to Eat if You Have Chest Pain (Angina) | |
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| Drop Pounds, Drop Heart Disease Odds | |
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| The Ultimate Anticholesterol Diet | |
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| How You Can Use Food to Control Cholesterol | |
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| Magic Beans | |
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| Super Soy--Government-Approved | |
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| Oat Power | |
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| A Garlic Clove a Day | |
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| Half an Onion a Day | |
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| High on Salmon | |
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| Olive Oil Does It All | |
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| Raves for Almonds and Walnuts | |
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| Avocados, Yes! | |
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| Cure Your Cholesterol With Strawberries | |
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| Make Time for Tea | |
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| Take Two Apples, and... | |
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| Carrots vs. Cholesterol | |
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| Calcium-Rich Foods | |
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| What to Eat to Lower Triglycerides | |
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| Grape Lore Vindicated | |
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| A Nip, If You Drink, Improves Cholesterol | |
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| Shellfish Surprise | |
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| Filter Out Coffee Threat | |
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| Danger in Decaf? | |
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| Chocolate, Not Guilty | |
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| Eggs and Cholesterol--The Real Story | |
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| The Most Dangerous Fats | |
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| The Perils of Super-Low Fat | |
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| Bottom Line on Fat in the Diet | |
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| Lose Some Weight | |
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| Can Cholesterol Ever Be Too Low? | |
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| Straight Talk About Diet Cures for Cholesterol | |
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| Ten Foods That Fight Blood Clots | |
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| Blood Clot Factors Can Save Your Life | |
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| How Food Can Control Blood Clotting | |
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| Garlic and Onions: Ancient Clot Fighters | |
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| Onions: A Potent Fat Blocker | |
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| How About a Little Fish Pate? | |
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| Red Wine's Wondrous Anticoagulant | |
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| Drink Tea for Healthy Arteries | |
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| Vegetables Are Clot busters | |
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| The Hot Chili Pepper Effect | |
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| Spicy Clot Busters | |
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| Black Mushrooms: A Sure Blood Thinner | |
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| Olive Oil Fights Clots | |
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| High Fat--Blood Clot Villain | |
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| Try a Clot-Busting Breakfast | |
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| Nature's Strong Medicine Against Strokes | |
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| Nature's Brain Protectors | |
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| Stroke Survival Medicine: An Extra Carrot a Day | |
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| The Remarkable California Experiment | |
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| Fatty Fish--The Blood Fixers | |
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| Saved by Tea | |
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| New Salt Danger | |
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| Added Iron Danger | |
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| Alcohol: Good News, Bad News | |
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| Diet Remedies for High Blood Pressure | |
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| Try Celery, an Ancient Medicine | |
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| Garlic's Legendary Powers | |
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| Oh, for a Tin of Mackerel | |
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| More Fruits and Vegetables | |
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| Vitamin C Up, Blood Pressure Down | |
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| Potassium Lowers Pressure | |
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| Go for Calcium-Rich Foods | |
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| Fiber Fix | |
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| Try Olive Oil | |
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| To Salt or Not to Salt? | |
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| How Sweet It Isn't | |
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| Watch the Alcohol | |
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| Few Worries About Coffee | |
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| Excess Pounds, Excess Blood Pressure | |
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| What to Take to Overcome Heart Disease | |
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| The Frontier Beyond Food | |
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| Vitamins Are More Potent in Pills | |
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| Vitamins E and C: Strong Heart Meds | |
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| Beta Carotene: The Real Heart Story | |
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| B Vitamins Battle Heart Disease | |
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| Calcium: Beyond Bones | |
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| Magnificent Magnesium | |
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| Selenium: Heart Protector | |
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| Iron: Heart Enemy | |
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| Coenzyme Q-10: Amazing Heart Energizer | |
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| OPC: Blood Vessel Fixer | |
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| Fabulous Fish Oil--The Omega-3s | |
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| Garlic the Great | |
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| Fiber Zaps Cholesterol, Unclogs Arteries | |
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| Foods with the Most Heart-Protective Vitamins, Minerals, and Oils | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |