Can you reverse the progression of coronary heart disease? Yes. Healthy lifestyle changes can halt plaque build-up in the arteries. They can also lower risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and help shed excess weight. Plaque build-up in our arteries usually happens over many years.
The Descendants of Cosimo deâ Medici. Lorenzo was a poet himself, and supported the work of such Renaissance masters as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (whom the Medicis commissioned to complete their family tombs in Florence).
~ Lorenzo de' Medici (from his narrative poem, Il Simposio, qtd. in Miles J. Unger's Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici.. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2008.