Tomatoes Better Than a Pill for Heart Disease

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Western medicine has trouble recognizing the health and healing power of whole foods.  Instead scientists engage in an endless quest to identify, isolate and extract components from foods and deliver them by needle or pill.

But a new study from Harvard and the University of California at Davis lends more support for the idea that a whole food is more powerful than the sum of its parts.