Mediterranean-style diet improves heart function, twin study shows

Following a Mediterranean-style diet may reduce the risk of heart disease by maintaining heart rate variability, suggests results of a study of twins. The more a participant's eating pattern matched a Mediterranean-style diet, the greater his heart rate variability. Genes do not entirely control heart rate variability, indicating that a Mediterranean-style diet could help people with a family history of heart disease.

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