Reviews for Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

The average rating for Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-01-17 00:00:00 Michael Ho;owaty In November I travelled to Georgia to visit my daughter. While there we had dinner with one of Morgan's friends and her mom. During dinner this lovely, lean woman described the "diet" she had been following for the past 6 months. She described it as "the Bill Clinton diet" and said she had learned about it from a book written by a doctor named Esselstyn. She described the plan, in a nutshell, as no meat (nothing with a face, nothing with a mother), no dairy, and no oil - not even "healthy" oils. That all sounded pretty drastic to me - and definitely way out of the mainstream. I should admit here that I've probably read nearly every diet book known to mankind and followed most of them with short-term good results, and long-term zero (and that's putting it charitably) results. I asked this woman what had motivated her to take on such an unappealing eating regime. She described her health concerns - scary racing heartbeat episodes that came on with no warning and lasted for minutes, her husband's early stages of angina. In short, she had been worried she was facing heart disease and did not want to go down the drug route - and she was scared. Her results in 6 months? No more racing heartbeat episodes. She thought she might lose 15 pounds, but actually lost about 25. Looking at her at the start, you would not have seen the 15 pounds she thought she could lose. Her husband also lost weight and his angina pain went away. She said if she is ever tempted to veer from the routine, she remembers how she felt when her heart took flight. I began thinking about how my heart seems to occasionally flutter in my chest. How a couple weeks before last Christmas (2010) I woke with pain in my chest and asked my husband to take me to the hospital - it turned out to be a false alarm and I told no one about it - not my mom, not my kids, not my friends. But I continue to notice those fluttering episodes. I thought about struggling with the same 30 pounds of extra weight continually, never ceasingly. I thought about the heart disease in my family. Then, waiting in the airport, I downloaded Esselstyn's book onto my kindle and read it all on the cross-country flight home. Low-carb eating programs have been my diet of choice over the past several years. I usually lose a good amount of weight during the first week, and fall off them during the second week. By then, the thought of another egg for breakfast usually makes me nauseous. As I read Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease on that airplane ride home an almost sick feeling in my stomach began. The eating plan proscribed by Esselstyn is diametrically opposed to how I have been eating my whole life, and especially in the last decades. What's good: starch, whole grains and lots of them, vegetables, fruits (but not high fat ones, and not high protein ones); what's bad: all animal protein, all dairy, all added oils, excess protein of any kind, excess fat of any kind. Why would one choose to eat like this? Esselstyn's study - as fully explained in his book - shows the reversal of heart disease so advanced that patients were sent home to die; there was nothing more traditional medicine could do for them. Simply through a change in diet, even this lethal level of heart disease was reversed. His is the longest running study of its kind, ever. His findings are based on scientific, peer-reviewed study. It is not anecdotal. I decided to get my cholesterol tested. Esselstyn says that with total cholesterol below 150, you will NOT have or get heart disease. I found an on-line process for obtaining a cholesterol test and within the week had my results: 257. I couldn't believe it was that high; I just couldn't believe it. Had that number come back close to 150, I probably would have written this vegan, no-oil thing off as extreme and unnecessary, but that was not to be. I'll be recording my journey via my blog - category "Vegan and Oil-free" at "theeconomom dot com."

Review # 2 was written on 2011-09-06 00:00:00 Michael Borton This ball got rolling when I saw "The Last Heart Attack" on CNN. My dad had just had heart surgery, so I was looking for something to help him, and to help me to avoid the same outcome. When I watched the CNN special and saw the amazing things a plant-based diet was doing for President Clinton, and the others that were highlighted, I knew I had to do some more research. I looked up Dr. Esselstyn's book, and immediately downloaded it to my Kindle. The electronic pages blurred by as I read about the proven benefits of a plant-based diet. The information was so convincing, that I didn't even wait until I had finished the book to begin my new food adventure. I have now been following Dr. Esselstyn's dietary suggestions for nearly two weeks. I'm eating delicious plant-based meals, so I haven't even craved meat, and at last check (a few days ago) I have already lost 8 pounds. I wish everyone I love would read and carefully consider what Dr. Esselstyn has to say. Then, after all my loved ones are done, everyone else should join us.