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It seems that a Mediterranean-style diet rich in olive oil and fish is just as heart healthy as the low fat diet that's long been recommended by the American Heart Association. People on either diet had one-third the risk of suffering another heart attack, a stroke, death or other heart problem compared with heart patients eating in the usual way.

"Both diets are prudent choices" for people at high risk of heart disease, said Dr. Katherine Tuttle of Providence Medical Research Center and Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. She headed the study and presented the findings at an American College of Cardiology conference.

Since we already like our fish slathered in olive oil and we indulge in plenty of pasta with red sauce, we're more than ready to follow Dr. Tuttle's advice for keeping heart healthy!

To learn more about keeping heart healtthy through diet & nutrition click here: American Heart Association