This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

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[Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having heart attacks and strokes, ... It's mind-boggling the public health benefit this could have if people can motivate themselves to make these changes.

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We think people will like these diets better than low-fat high carbohydrate diets because it gives them a much bigger range of foods to eat. People, for the most part, like the taste of protein and higher fat foods.

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This diet should be a frontrunner, ... It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of patients are tough to control with the medications we have. Patients might not even need drugs if they go on the diet.

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I'm in favor of drug therapy and being aggressive with drug therapy with patients who are high risk for cholesterol, ... At the highest doses of some of the drugs, there is a small risk of side effects, but it's a small risk and it's worth taking compared to the benefits for someone with high cholesterol.

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This is a modified version of the old diet, ... The DASH diet was a real breakthrough for lowering blood pressure and we changed it. We reduced the carbohydrate content and replaced it with unsaturated fat or protein, and it lowered blood pressure more and improved lipids, and overall cardiovascular risk goes down.

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