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Exercise Found More Beneficial Than Diet to Lower Heart Disease Risk

  • November 05, 2003

Despite widespread attention to diet, calorie intake may not be a major factor in causing death by heart disease, according to a 17-year study of almost 9,800 Americans. Instead, losing excess weight--or not becoming overweight to begin with--and exercising may do more to ward off death from heart disease. Interestingly, when I entered medical school I was focused far more on exercise than diet as a solution to health. Exercise is far less controversial and complex to recommend than diet...