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...stethoscope to you for the article on new research on eating right for your heart [HEALTH, July 19]. As a practicing cardiologist, I spend much of my time trying to educate people about the best ways to fight the onset and progression of heart disease. Your report accurately stressed that when it comes to successful lifestyles and medical interventions, there is far more agreement than controversy. A nutritious diet chosen with a bit of common sense and knowledge remains a cornerstone of a healthy life, and there is simply no substitute for modest physical activity. DARRELL J. YOUNGMAN Medical Director...
...much fat is too much? The American Heart Association says 30% of a day's calories. That may sound strict, but it doesn't go nearly far enough to satisfy Dr. Dean Ornish, a University of California cardiologist and dean of the eat-right-for-a-healthy-heart school of medicine. Ornish has long maintained that changes in diet and lifestyle can treat heart disease as effectively as drugs and surgery--perhaps even more so. But modest reductions in fat intake, he says, usually do your heart no good...
...turns out the anomaly is easy to misdiagnose. "Just because you have a click doesn't make you sick," says Dr. Robert Levine, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a co-author of both of last week's reports. Because the mitral valve is shaped like a saddle when the heart is beating--something that Levine discovered 10 years ago--an ultrasound scan can indicate a bulging of the valve where none actually exists. Since then he has determined that the front-to-back view is more reliable than the side-to-side one. (Both views...
...Stone's Heaven and Earth. Chen shuttles between East and West, playing fiercely intelligent seducers in the Hong Kong Temptation of a Monk and Red Rose, White Rose while making onscreen love with Anne Heche in Hollywood's Wild Side. She marries happily to Peter Hui, a San Francisco cardiologist. Who could ask for anything more...
...Scottish cardiologist James Mackenzie invents the polygraph machine, better known as the lie detector...