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Tag: heart disease

Ask a Mexican: Why Do Mexicans Have Lower Rates of Heart Disease?

by Gustavo Arellano January 20th, 2016December 16th, 2020

Dear Mexican: Hey, I was wondering why it is that Mexicans are said to have low risk for heart attacks, considering they eat lots of beans, animal intestines and other strange foods like pigs’ feet and cow tongue. Could there be some mysterious magical healing power in all these strange cultural cuisines? Max Cherry Burger […]

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