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I'm Terry Graydon.

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For thousands of years, death couldn't be reversed.

More recently, medicine has developed techniques for shocking people back to life.

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

For millennia, when people stop breathing, they stopped living.

The classic test for determining whether people were asleep or death. For millennia, when people stopped breathing, they stopped living.

The classic test for determining whether people were asleep or dead was whether they could fog a mirror held to their mouth.

Centuries ago, people in Amsterdam and London tried to figure out how to resuscitate drowning victims.

In recent years, researchers have been able to apply the scientific method to revive those who have seemingly perished by drowning or heart attacks. Coming up on the

People's Pharmacy, we talk with Dr. David Caserett, author of shocked adventures in bringing back

the recently dead. First, the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

following a Mediterranean-style diet works as well as statin medication

to prevent death from heart attacks.

The data supporting this contention

is based on a study of almost 1,200 Italians that was reported at the European Society of Cardiology.

These patients had a history of heart disease when they enrolled in the study, and they answered an extensive questionnaire about their food habits.

Similarity to an ideal Mediterranean diet was calculated on a nine-point scale.

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