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Article: Avoiding a heart attack: diet, drugs ... or both?(includes a table on foods that are high or low in saturated fat)(Interview)
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- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Why bother eating a healthy diet when you can take a drug that slashes your cholesterol level? Millions of American are pondering that question. Here's how Frank Sacks answers it.
Sacks is an associate professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a practicing physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He just finished a major clinical trial on the drug Pravachol (which was funded by its manufacturer, Bristol-Myers Squibb) and a diet study on hypertension, funded by the National Heart, Jung and Blood Institute. Sacks spoke to Nutrition Action's Bonnie Liebman by phone.
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