I subscribe to the daily e-mail from Dr. Weil. Today’s message reads, in part:

Are You Eating For Your Heart?

Changing your diet can be an effective, gentle, inexpensive – and even delicious – way to prevent, relieve or even reverse a wide variety of conditions. If you are at risk or have been diagnosed with heart disease, reduce your intake of saturated and trans fats.
Simple dietary changes

Which brought to mind these lines from Stephen Crane:

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, beastial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter,- bitter”, he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart”.