Cereal + Sandwich = Healthy Heart

You may know that eating whole grains lowers your risk of heart disease. But you may not know how little it takes to make a difference. When researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center analyzed studies involving nearly 150,000 men and women, they found that people who ate more whole grains - an average of two and a half servings every day - had a 21 percent lower risk of developing heart disease. He have a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and a sandwich on whole-grain bread for lunch and you're there - in fact, you're up to the three servings a day experts advocate as a way to cut the risk of other diseases as will.