Poultry instead of red or processed meat. It allows for seven or more glasses of wine a weak. The low fat diet also encourages fruit and vegetables but discourages all vegetable oils including all olive oil and nuts. Reporter by switching the type of fat you eat you can improve your t way your body handles cholesterol levels, improve the way you handle blood sugar, improve the health of the way the blood vessels function and potentially prevent clotting within those vessels. Reporter geraldine travali has a Strong Family history of high cholesterol. Last year she got a scare. I went to the doctor with a cholesterol of 335, which is outrageous. Reporter she began taking a cholesterollowering drug called crestor and is following a mediterranean diet. Its up to me to take care of myself. My physician can do so much but i need to do the rest. Reporter the findings were so dramatic that researchers stopped the study after five years. It would have been unethical to withhold the results any
Family and what happens next. But we begin with a Winter Weather alert, a mess in the midwest again. Another blizzard slamming several states. We could soon feel its impact. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Get ready for some rain and even some flood watches, of course, some Winter Weather advisories, too. Sue palka has the latest information coming into the Weather Center tonight. It looks like this is not going to be a problem for us in the morning, but weve got some rain coming, enough that weve got some flood watches up and there could even be a rumble of thunder tomorrow at the same time we also have Winter Weather advisories off to our west. Its coming from that same storm. Well take another look on radar. This is a huge snowstorm. There is an awful lot of Severe Weather associated with it in addition to big wind, but this is a drought stricken area, so theyre calling that snow white gold even if it has been a lot of work for folks in wichita and ka
Yeah, he took an innocent persons life. Reporter her son had dreams of doing Creative Things with his life. He loved to dance, run track, even model. He said im not going to be old living with you. I said fine, that is what i dont want. You will be grown. He said that is not going to be me. He always had big dreams. Reporter dreams that died at the hands of a man with a gun. Ross was killed a little more than two weeks after Amber Stanley was shot to death inside her kettering home. Two counties left fearful and on edge, shawn. And an arrest in the murder of 71yearold geraldine mcintyre, what do you been that case . Reporter Prince Georges County police say the 46year old James Alphonso ward of Capitol Heights turned on a neighbor who had helped him in the past and stabbing her to death in the living room of her home on february 9th. Ward stole a 32inch flat Screen Television from her home that he sold for 40. When the person who purchased the television realized it might belong to ger
Outrageous. Reporter she began taking a cholesterollowering drug called crestor and is following a mediterranean diet. Its up to me to take care of myself. My physician can do so much but i need to do the rest. Reporter the findings were so dramatic that researchers stopped the study after five years. It would have been unethical to withhold the results any longer. Pelley so, jon, wine, fish nuts, olive oil. What is in these things that causes a protective effect . Nobody really knows. One of the theories, scott, is that the oil in the Virgin Olive Oil and also the oil in the nuts can somehow stabilize a tiny clot thats in a blood vessel and stop it from progressing and totally cutting off the blood supply, causing a heart attack or a stroke. Whatever the cause, scott, this study was very, very well done and its a big deal. Pelley an important study. Jon, thank you. For the second time in a week, a major winter storm is pounding the great plains, whiteout conditions were reported in am
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. To be honest, we were his tent at first to begin this broadcast with yet another Scientific Study about what we should or should not eat. But our dr. Jon lapook brought us what he says is the most definitive study yet that the socalled mediterranean diet including olive oil and nuts, wine, and fish can prevent the leading cause of death in america heart disease. And it does it much better than the lowfat diet can. Jon has more on why we should Pay Attention to this study and what it found. Reporter todays study compared the mediterranean diet to a lowfat diet among nearly 7,500 patients at high risk for heart disease. After five years, those on the mediterranean diet had 30 fewer heart attacks, strokes, or deaths from heart disease. Dr. Tara narula is a preventative cardiologist at lenox hill hospital. The study is significant because diet is one of the most underestimated and easy way to change your cardiovascular ri