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Monday, February 4, 2013

Eating More Vegetables

Good Morning All,

I'd like to start off this week by encouraging everyone to add more vegetables to your diet!
Eating vegetables can help lower your risk of many different diseases including heart disease and diabetes.




Check out the below excerpt from a article published by Yahoo/ABC News, about a Lower Heart Disease Risk for Vegetarians..Though we are all not vegetarians we can definitely benefit by making healthier choices.

Dr. William Abraham..
Abraham said he occasionally prescribes a vegetarian diet to patients who have already had heart attacks - but this study might persuade him to prescribe them preventively to patients with heart disease risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol...

Read the full article using the below link:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/vegetarians-lower-heart-disease-risk-study-finds-110046252--abc-news-health.html


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