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Eating well is surprisingly fun and
satisfying with coaching from registered dietitian and journalist Jennifer Motl.
Read Motl's latest newspaper columns
on nutrition and health:
THE Mediterranean
eating plan is best
at preventing heart disease, better even than
a low-fat diet.
That's according to a massive review of nearly 200 scientific studies,
just published in Archives of Internal Medicine. The Mediterranean diet and
variations have made headlines repeatedly
in the past few months.
The review suggested that the eating plan reduced the risk of heart
disease by 37 percent, regardless of a person's exercise habits or weight.
A variation of the eating plan that includes nuts may be even more
powerful. Spaniards who followed a Mediterranean plan with generous amounts
of olive oil reduced heart disease risk by 40 percent; those who also ate an
ounce of nuts a day had a whopping 70 percent drop in risk.... (read
more or listen to podcast)
Jennifer Motl, freelance journalist, speaker
and Registered Dietitian, writes an award-winning nutrition column in the The Free Lance-Star, a daily newspaper in
Fredericksburg, Va., near Washington, D.C. Motl graduated from Cornell University,
has worked for a number of newspapers and medical centers, and is a member of the
American Dietetic Association.
Ask the dietitian
- Submit a brief question about nutrition,
and Jennifer will answer
via e-mail. Your e-mail
address remains private.
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Or use snail mail address: PO Box 54, Greendale, WI 53129
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