The United States Department of Health and Human Services recently launched the Million Hearts initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next 5 years by implementing proved, effective, and inexpensive interventions. But why stop at a million? We already have all the information we need to eradicate atherosclerotic disease, which is a food-borne illness. Coronary artery disease is virtually nonexistent in large populations of individuals who consume plant-based nutrition. Some of the most renowned cardiovascular pathologists in the world have stated that maintaining a total cholesterol level >150 mg/dl is the true cause of this disease. Plaque regression occurs in >80% of patients who adopt a low-fat vegetarian diet. Cardiac positron emission tomographic scans show improvement of blood flow in 99% of those who choose this treatment, and the risk for mortality from a future cardiac event is essentially eliminated in even the most advanced cases of heart disease. Nevertheless, these concepts are not even taught in medical school. Instead, the focus is on performing costly procedures such as bypasses and angioplasties, which frequently provide only symptomatic relief at a tremendous global expense. The solution is to fix medical education. Knowledge of nutritional excellence can help physicians annihilate the world’s leading killer.