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Saving your life | Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure | Caldwell B. Esselstyn

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	• Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure Caldwell B. Esselstyn Avery Trade, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 153 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Book that Changed My Life

I have read McDougall's books which are outstanding, Dean Ornish books also; but Esselstyn is the most compelling of the three. I just like the way he presents the information. He is direct and makes it clear what you have to do to reverse the condition of high cholesterol and artery disease. I like the overall picture of his family (all of his children following in his footsteps and how they were outstanding atheletes. Esselstyn's work also is convincing because of the fact he is the member of a 'world-class' institution, the Cleveland Clinic, which is the world's number 1 medical center for heart surgery. His bold departure from standard treatment of heart disease is both startling and compelling. I have been on his diet for about three weeks and already can tell the difference in my general well-being.

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A Diet You Can Stay On Is Better Than One You Can't

Many people with heart disease--myself among them--take a drug commonly known as Coumadin. It is a blood thinner, and there are a whole host of foods that must be avoided because they either reverse or intensify the drug's effects. Blueberries, for example, are out; so too are asparagus, broccoli, collard greens, endive, kale, romaine, mustard greens, spinach, and turnip greens, not to mention parsley, horseradish, and excessive amounts of garlic, to name but a few. This is not something Dr. Esselstyn's PREVENT AND REVERSE HEART DISEASE really takes into account, advocating such concoctions as Broccoli-Mushroom Pie, to name but one recipe that will zap your Coumadin levels to hell and gone. So my first comment on this book is that Coumadin users should approach its recipes with tremendous caution.

That said, any doctor will tell you that a diet you can't stay on is worthless. I wouldn't say that Esselstyn's diet is impossible to stay on, but it comes damn close. This is not just a diet low in red meats, fats, and sodium; it is a diet without them entirely--and also without chicken, fish, eggs, milk, and oils of any kind. It is, simply put, the Vegan diet from all hell and then some. So good luck at dodging the Coumadin-unfriendly items, not to mention finding many of these recommended products at your corner grocery store. Quite frankly, you would do better to BEGIN with a diet low in red meats, fats, and sodium that you CAN stay on and gradually expand upon it. Many heart patients do become vegetarians; many heart patients do become vegans. But it is not something most people will find easy to jump into point-blank, and a diet you can stay on is better than one that you cannot.

That said, I do recommend Esselstyn's book for the simple reason that, Coumadin issues aside, this is the ideal, it is what we are working toward. But don't let the fact that you can't immediately stay on it knock you out of the park. And so, one more time: a diet you can stay on is better than one you cannot.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

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Saving your life

This readable and to the point book shows how we can dramatically improve our health outlook by simply eating a plant based diet.

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No Excuses

Dr. Esselstyn lays it out pure and simple. We have control over our lives, the choice is ours. Eat to live or eat yourself to death. I've been using his system for the past 6 weeks and have never felt better. Not always the easiest way to eat because of habits and temptations, but taking control of your life has never been an easy path. Read this book! And then choose life.

A powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart disease therapy. Based on the groundbreaking results of a twenty-year nutritional study by Dr. Esselstyn, a preeminent researcher and clinician, this book illustrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease but can also reverse its effects. The proof lies in the incredible outcomes for patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's program, including a number of patients in his original study who had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of starting the program, Dr. Esselstyn's patients began to improve dramatically, and twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms. Complete with more than 150 delicious recipes, this book explains the science behind the simple plan that has drastically changed the lives of Dr. Esselstyn's patients forever. It will empower readers to take control of their heart health.

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