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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Pill may supplement fruits, vegetables

Research to target individuals with insulin resistance to improve cardiac health

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, November 29, 2004

The fruit and vegetable blocks of the food pyramid may be distilled into a capsule capable of supplementing regular nutrition to benefit heart health, if research by the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center achieves expected results.

The project, led by principal investigator Dr. David Katz, received a grant this month from the National Safety Associates Corporation to study the cardiac effects of fruit and vegetable nutrients taken in capsule form.

Katz, the director of the Yale-Griffin Center, said he hopes the two-year study, named Juice Plus+ after the capsule...

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