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Best and Worst Nuts for Your Health

These bite-size nutritional powerhouses are packed with heart-healthy fats, protein, and disease-fighting vitamins and minerals. Here's a look at the pros and cons of different nuts, as well as the best and worst products on supermarket shelves today. View slideshow

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5 Shortcuts to a Heart-Healthy Diet

People with heart disease tend to have something in common: Many have spent decades eating too much saturated fat and not consuming enough fruits and vegetables. View slideshow

Why Supplements May Do Your Heart More Harm Than Good

Why heart patients need to choose their vitamins with care

If you're having trouble eating a healthy amount of fruits, vegetables, grains, and healthy fats, you may be hoping to fill those holes in your diet with a pill. Problem is, pills don't really work... Read More

Dietary Fats Can Help—or Harm—Your Heart

How to choose more of the good and avoid the kind that can clog your arteries

Many people with heart disease try to banish fats, but they're missing out on lots of foods that can protect the heart. Avocados, nuts, fish, olive oil—they're all fatty, and they can all help keep you alive. But other fats act as napalm to the heart. Read More

How Safe, Moderate Exercise Can Keep Your Heart Healthy

You don't have to be a marathon runner to beat heart disease

In study after study, exercise has been shown to slash the risk of heart disease and add years to one's life, even among obese people and other high-risk populations. While the benefits of exercise are well documented, the amount of exercise needed for those benefits to kick in is still disputed... Read More

The Payoff of Cardiac Rehab—After a Tough Beginning

Studies suggest it can help you recover faster and live longer

Deb Kautz, 47, of Zumbro Falls, Minn., said she felt like "a wreck" after her heart attack. She was afraid to move, afraid that any exertion could set off another attack. This fear could have left her stuck to the couch, but she took another route... Read More

Video: Perspectives on Diet and Exercise

After Bypass, New Food Cravings

Hated salads, now loves 'em
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It Was Either the Knife

Or get serious about a heart-healthy life
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Skip Vitamins for Your Heart

Diet and exercise do the real work, not pills
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Big Dietary Change

"I thought I was a healthy eater." Wrong!
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