Eat meats that are 85% lean.

Do not “count” your dailies activities as “exercise”. If you are active at work or playing golf everyday, that’s great. However, your body is use to that. Walking dog is walking dog, that is not exercise unless you are running or walking very fast.

Avoid white flour and bleach grains. Try whole-wheat noodles in your spaghetti. It freaked my kids out at first, but now they love it.

Take an antioxidant supplement every day. Most people are just not getting what they need through food.

As with many vitamins, there is a raging debate over how much vitamin E you need. The US recommended daily allowance (RDA) is 8-10 milligrams per day. But most people in nutrition field believe that to capture long-term benefits, people need 10 to 20 times that quantity, which is well short of maximum recommended 1,000 milligrams.

Vitamin E is found in many foods in small quantities. The good news is that almost everyone gets sufficient vitamin E to avoid a deficiency, with a few exceptions noted below. The bad news is that most people do not get RDA. This is definitely a vitamin that should be supplemented.

Be careful about what supplements you choose, since synthetic version of vitamin E is not even half effective as in its natural form. Look for nutritional supplements containing natural vitamin E, preferably in liquid form.

People on low fat diets need supplements most, since fats and oils are largest sources of vitamin E. Nuts and green, leafy vegetables are also good sources, as are egg yolks and liver. So are whole grains.

Vitamin E probably will never cure your broken heart, nor live up to half of claims people make about it. But it is an important vitamin for maintaining good health and it is needed in quantities above what most people take in their diet.