Veggies Do a Heart Good
(HealthDayNewa, 6/19/06)

Michael Adams of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N.C, and team, fed 53 mice a diet containing 30% vegetables, including freeze-dried peas, broccoli, corn carrots and green beans.  The investigators fed a control group of 54 mice the same diet minus the vegetables. After 4 months, the researchers found that the vegetable-eating mice weighed less and had lower “bad” cholesterol (LDL) and smaller atherosclerotic plaques than the mice consuming no vegetables. The scientists speculate that a vegetable rich diet may have inflammatory properties that may benefit the cardiovascular system.

(Journal of Nutrition, July 2006)