following are fruits that you are not going to typically see on a low carb diet and they are bananas as well as dried fruit and mangos.

The South Beach Diet by cardiologist Arthur Agatston has been wildly popular since it arrived in 2003 and promoted a diet that cuts back on artery-clogging fat and processed carbohydrates. But the honeymoon may be over with Agatston's latest book. The South Beach Diet Supercharged, just out, is drawing fire from several top national exercise researchers.

Researchers in Sweden suggest a gluten-free vegan diet provides help for rheumatoid arthritis patients' hearts as well as joints. Johan Frostegard of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and colleagues divided 66 rheumatoid arthritis patients randomly into two groups.

Instead of a recipe today, I'm sorting through my mailbag to answer questions and share comments about my Don't Say Diet recipes.