Dr. David Becker Pens Blog Post for the Philadelphia Inquirer on Recent Trial Examining the Impact on Life Expectancy of Changing from a Western Diet to a Mediterranean One

David Becker, MD, FACC, Director of the Preventive and Integrative Heart Health Program at the Temple Heart and Vascular Institute, wrote a blog post for the Philadelphia Inquirer on a recent trial published in the journal PLOS Medicine. The trial suggested that a sustained change from a typical Western diet to the Mediterranean diet can lead to a significantly longer life at any age.