heart disease.rt disease. >> absolutely. the lay wisdom is once you develop these plaques, they're there. you're stuck with them. try not to let them get worse. is that faulty thinking? >> i think it's absolutely faulty thinking. >> here's a picture he likes to show of a heart patient with a blocked coronary artery. here's that same patient after going on a plant based diet. you see the way the blockage has almost disappeared? sharon survived a heart attack a year ago after a coronary artery became completely blocked. now she's counting on the diet to keep her from having another. >> thankfully your heart muscle function is normal. >> her cardiologist says so far so good with the diet. >> it's a difficult sell. but you know, those who get on to it, have benefitted from it without a question. >> i asked sharon to meet me here in new york city. you know, cooking at home is one thing. but eating on the road, eating on the run, that's quite another. as the old saying goes, if her diet can make it here,

robbed of oxygen, the heart muscle can't function properly, heart attack. and therein lies the key he says, we can now find clues before the heart trouble gets dangerous, before the first symptoms. >> one of the best kept secrets in the country in medicine is doctors who are practicing aggressive prevention are really seeing heart attacks and strokes disappear from their practices. it's doable. >> and you're saying we -- with what we know right now, we don't have to have any more heart attacks in this country? >> i'll never say not any, but the great majority, yes. absolutely. >> it's the biggest killer of men and women, heart disease in this country. >> and it's completely preventable. >> your body needs cholesterol, actually makes it. it's in the lining of every cell in your body, the liver sends out ldl cholesterol. and when everything works right, the good hdl skanchls ldl and bring its back to the liver. you also get cholesterol in foods, things like meat, french fries, eggs, butter, desserts, ice cream. your cholesterol number is a good measure of wha

gave stem cells to patients with severe heart failure due to heart attack a long time ago. they didn't mention growth of heart tissue like the cedars-sinai study did. what did they find in the "lancet" study? >> well, so they did also look at scar tissue, and they found a decrease in the scar tissue in the heart. but the most exciting thing that they found was an increase in the pumping capacity of the heart. so after six months, they saw basically a six-point increase, and after 12 months, this was a 12-point increase in heart function. so this is larger than has been seen in other studies using different types of cells. and so while this is a small patient population, it's potentially exciting. >> if you can, you know, because you talk about taking stem cells and injecting them into the heart. can you briefly describe exactly how does that work? what is the process for someone who's watching this and saying, maybe i will be a candidate for this someday? >> so they took tissue from the heart, either using biopsy, taking a little bite of the heart through a catheter, or dur

. >>> heal your own heart? the surprising medical breakthrough that could bring more than 5 million americans back to health. your own stem cells reversing heart damage. >>> supreme showdown, the highest court in the land decides to weigh in on the president's polarizing health care law. >>> family affair, republican front-runner herman cain's wife and kids coming to his defense. >>> and courage and hope, our abc news exclusive, gabby giffords and her husband astronaut mark kelly. tonight we tell you how music helped bring her language back. ♪ girls just want to have fun captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good evening to all of you >>> good evening to all of you and tonight we begin with the new portrait emerging of the penn state football coach accused of abusing eight young boys. new tapes of jerry sandusky, an interview he gave before the scandal broke and this as yet another adult man has now resigned amid accusations he knew there was a problem and did nothing. and at this hour abc news has learned there a

robbed of ork general, the heart muscle can't function properly. heart attack. and there in lies the key. we can now find clues before heart trouble gets dangerous, even before the first symptoms. well before you get to the stage president clinton was. >> bill clinton, former president, arguably had at least eight years of some of the best health care in the world. it was after he left office he had significant heart problems. that surprised a lot of people. how could it be that he could get this level of health care and still have heart problems? >> he had multivessel disease. so he had a lot of plaque. that plaque certainly could have have been identified years before. >> but why wasn't it done? again, you would assume that the white house doctors, the president of the united states, they've been doing that afor hi. >> it was not the standard of care then. >> i decided to ask bill clinton about that. it turns out he did have a coronary calcium scan just months after leaving office. the technology was so new then, doctors weren't quite sure what to do with the

>> the changes in the heart. the heart rate goes faster. your blood pressure goes up. you breathe faster. sweat more, have an interior feeling of being stressed, as we talked about. >> when we're raging or when we are angry, we're like an animal either getting ready to fight or getting ready to flee? >> that's correct, yeah. >> so that affects -- does it affect endocrinology, too? >> it affects all of that. you have the part of the brain called the frontal cortex to try to inhibit it to say there is nothing to get upset about. our whole day is getting feelings and handling them by the frontal lobe of the brain that says calm down, everything will pass. >> you can argue that it's draining, and therefore good. drainage, get rid of it, share it? >> well, remember the primal scream thepy, let it all out? >> yes. >> the thing about letting it all out, you hurt other people's feelings, you ruin relationships. i don't think that the expression of anker is necessarily good, because it tends to cascade and it gets worse. >> you're on the cutting edge of brain research, are you

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heart disease and a lifetime of bad eating habits, president clinton told me he was a heart attack waiting to happen. but what does someone really look like who's about to have a heart attack? you probably wouldn't think this guy. tom bear, 53, thin, seemingly healthy and one step short of a full blown heart attack. in fact, he's checking into this hospital in lincoln, nebraska, for open heart surgery. it's an important lesson what you see on the outside doesn't always match the inside. >> in this instance it obviously closed down quite a bit. >> this surgeon shows us the striking images. >> you can see that tight narrowing that limits the amount of blood that can get out. then you have a real tight narrowing up here. that vessel on the side takes off and then another narrowing here. and a pretty tight narrowing there. >> reporter: all the major blood

. >>> high hopes tonight for heart patients. a new technique that shows dramatic results so far in bringing failing hearts back to life. >>> and making a difference. a 12-year-old girl doing what a lot of grown-ups couldn't for survivors of one of the world's worst disasters. survivors of one of the world's worst disasters. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it is a very basic question and it goes right to the heart of the big fight we just went through over health care. can americans be forced to buy health insurance? did congress have the power to pass such a thing? the supreme court announced today they're going to decide this. this is what the supreme court does. they decide what's allowable under the constitution and just taking on this case makes it the biggest in years with sweeping impact for all americans potentially. it's where we begin tonight with our justice correspondent pete williams. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, a dramatic day here because the cou

heart association. so i walked in there with that as my number one goal. and i really did achieve it. i'm very proud of that. >> one of of the biggest stories of this season's "aprentice" was you and nimi. the so-called feud between you and you two. >> you actually need a few people to have a feud and i made a promise to myself that when the season ended that i would never think about, hear about or speak about the contestants in any negative way whatsoever. and i really, really intend to follow that, but i think this is extremely important, marc. nimi really made choices that work for her career. >> "real housewives of atlanta" kind of reality tv. >> exactly. dollar's there's a genre of tv that's really blown up in recent years. it's sort of that bad girl mentality that ghetto fabulous head moving, fingers pointing, loud boisterous, that television has really blown up. >> yes. >> but what i decided is african-american women have that reputation in the majority media. they like to highlight that. we don

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you know i had open heart surgery just over a year ago. >> yeah. >> and i knew that heart disease is the number one killer of all americans. the number one killer of blacks. the number one killer of women. but for some reason that's not able to break through in the mass media. >> right. >> it's not sexy. people don't want to talk about heart disease and i figured if i got a platform, if i cause a little bit of a stir, the media will want to talk to me. so it gave me the opportunity to raise that a awareness for hear health and to raise money for the american heart association. so i walked in there with that as my number one goal. and i really did achieve it. i'm very proud of that. >> one of of the biggest stories of this season's "aprentice" was you and nimi. the so-called feud between you and you two. >> you actually need a few people to have a feud and i made a promise to myself that when the season ended that i would never think about, hear about or speak about the contestants in any negative way whatsoever. and i really, really intend to follow that, but i think this is extremel

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the hearts' responded asking for proof they had heart. five days after the kidnapping they arrested harold thurmon in a phone booth, one block and a half from a police station. >> he confessed too. >> two suspects are being held in the jail behind the city's courthouse. 17 days after the kidnapping, two duck hunters discovered the badly decomposed body of heart. the crowd began to gather at the white house and jail where holmes and thurmon were being held. the crowd had become a lynch mob. >> this was basically a crowd of curiosity seekers and thrill seekers. the lynch mob was probably no more than 100, 150 people. >> reporter: william amet told his investigators that they cold only defend the jail with gas, not bullets. at one point a group of the vigilantes broke off and went to the construction site where the postoffice was being built. they took a large pole and took it around the white house where they knocked down the jail. they took holmes and thurmon from their jail then they brought them here to st. james park. they hung thurmon

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i feel 100%. >> he was just 39 when a heart attack left him with heart failure.o millis volunteered for an experimental trial in los angeles. doctor injected stem cells from his own heart into the area the attack damaged the most. >> these cells are growth factors. and when you inject them, they will, in fact, positively impact the environment and cause the cells to grow. >> cedars isn't along in making these conclusions. the university of louisville published similar research in the new issue of the lancet. stem cells were able to heal heart tissue. almost 6 million americans suffer heart failure after a heart attack and 20% die within one year from diagnosis. millis underwent the stem cell procedure in 2009. he says he started feeling better almost immediately. >> it feels like i broke my arm, it was in a cast and it healed and now it's forgotten. that's exactly what it feels like. >> doctors admit the study was small and more research is needed. >>> to a case many of us have been talking about for a while now. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is speaking out.

i was at the sacred heart of community services. it tears your heart. you start counting your blessings. give us your thought when you see the look on the face of the kids and the parents. >> it's amazing. a couple of years ago i was out in front of a store and a woman on her way in i asked her would she be willing to donate she said i don't know if i can right now. she comes back out hands me $20 and says, you know, not long ago i was a client of the food bank. i barely am making ends meet but i know how important it is to get food from the food bank. you hear those kinds of stories all day every year and it's really -- it's great that there's organizations there that can help the people who really do need them. >> very good. any file thoughts you might have? >> i'm excited about the fact of the opportunity. the junior league is having six stores this year, so we're very thrilled about that. and think there's a little competition among the six stores, so we encourage everybody to get out to their lockle safeway and support this cause. >> we're so grate

that is the heart of san francisco. it is important to note the gaps we have in the existing neighborhoods. we still do not have a grocery store in the tenderloin. this market has been a central part of being able to serve our residence in the neighborhood. we're so grateful this happens here every wednesday. our office is always out here getting food and buying groceries as well. since my time on the board of education, food equity has been a very important issue. we know it is one of the reasons why not all kids succeed in classes. we talk about improving performance in school buildings, a lot of it is also the opportunities that young people come into the classrooms with. food is one of them. when i was at the school district, we worked to find spaces in our grants to sponsored school gardens so that our kids can learn about nutrition and fresh foods. it is amazing to visit the schools. the kids know more than i do about identifying seeds, leaves, and all of those things. i am really proud to be year today. 30 more y

now, doctors are using it to help restore heart function after a heart attack. >> working good? >> reporter: virginia survived a massive heart attack. the once active grandmother faced a reducing life function. she agreed to a medical study in cleveland, ohio. they would inject bone marrow into her heart. >> my heart was only pumping 35% of what it should be. >> reporter: they have the ability to create new, healthy cells. doctors think when the heart is damaged, the body sends signals to send them to the heart to heal. >> they are not strong enough to repair heart muscle back to its normal state. >> reporter: doctors take them out of the body, give them muscle in a lab and direct them into the daked area. >> if we can bring it into the clinical practice, it is a major advancement. >> reporter: it's years away from clinical practice. another study suggests cardiac stem cells can help following a heart attack. doctors don't know which work best or when to use them. >> how many cells, how do you get it there and what cell are you using? that's been the trick. >> reporter: he led t