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Eating Your Way To A Healthy Heart

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A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine points to a drop in heart disease for people on the Mediterranean Diet. In this edition of Vital Signs, Dr. Amit Khera, professor of cardiology and director of UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Preventive Cardiology Program, explained why the study’s significant.

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Sam Baker is ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 13’s Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôºâ€™s Sharing the Power: A Voter’s Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.