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Mangia Foglie

Christina Pirello shares healthy, fresh Italian and Mediterranean recipes as well as her brassy, insightful approach to liver, kidney and heart health and diabetes prevention. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983, Christina turned to a macrobiotic diet of whole grains and vegetables to aid in her recovery, launching the 20-plus year run of her Emmy Award-winning series Christina Cooks.

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Mangia Foglie

Season 6 Episode 604 | 26m 45s | CC

Taking care of our livers can be delicious. What you say? What if I told you a classic pasta dish from Puglia was designed to do just that? Let’s head to Bari, live our healthiest lives and become “mangia foglie,” since they have cleverly figured out that bitter greens can put us right.

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