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A meal of sardines with tehina sauce, fresh pita, a cucumber and tomato salad, olives and pickles is served in a restaurant in the local produce market February 22, 2006 in Netanya in central Israel. The Mediterranean diet, a term used to broadly describe the eating habits of the people of the area, is widely believed to be responsible for the low rates of chronic heart disease in the populations of the 16 countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
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Friday March 14, 2008, Piedmont, Oklahoma: Primary cared doctor Ric Corman, mother Amber Meiwes, and her husband Steven. Children are 1 and three years old. (Penny De Los Santos for USN&WR)
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