Shedding those extra kilos through a balanced combination of diet and exercise may provide strong protection against heart disease for people suffering from obesity a new study has found. According to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition a combination of healthy eating and exercise is the preferred roadmap to a healthy heart. For men and women with excess body weight modest weight loss provides powerful protection against cardiovascular disease regardless of whether weight loss is achieved by using exercise a healthy low-calorie diet or both said Edward Weiss Associate Professor at Saint Louis University. For the