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Article: The low-fat life.(how a low-fat diet can reduce risk of heart disease)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- July 12, 1999
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You don't have to meditate and eat like a rabbit
When Don Vaupel suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 49--and was advised by his doctors to go home and get his affairs in order--he was scared into a lifestyle makeover. For guidance, he turned to California internist Dean Ornish, a pioneering heart researcher who was embarking on a study that would prove that a dramatically low-fat diet along with moderate exercise and stress reduction could actually reverse heart disease without drugs or surgery.
Dismissing the doubts of his own cardiologist, who called Ornish's program a cult and Ornish "a vegetarian guru," Vaupel has stuck with the grueling ...