Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery |
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| Title: | Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery |
| Author: | Dean Ornish |
| Publisher: | Ivy Books |
| Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 30 December, 1995 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0804110387 / 9780804110389 |
| List Price: | $7.99 |
| Amazon Price: | $7.99 |
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Dr. Dean Ornish is the first clinician to offer documented proof that heart disease can be halted, or even reversed, simply by changing your lifestyle. Based on his internationally acclaimed scientific study, which has now been ongoing for years, Dr. Ornish's program has yielded amazing results. Participants reduced or discontinued medications; their chest pain diminished or disappeared; they felt more energetic, happy, and calm; they lost weight while eating more; and blockages in coronary arteries were actually reduced.
In his breakthrough book, Dr. Ornish presents this and other dramatic evidence and guides you, step-by-step, through the extraordinary Opening Your Heart program, which is winning landmark approval from America's health insurers. The program takes you beyond the purely physical side of health care to include the psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects so vital to healing. This book represents the best modern medicine has to offer. It can inspire you to open your heart to a longer, better, happier life.
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Customer Reviews:
• Life Everlasting
12 February, 2010
Very good, very important book. A believable, thoughtful guide to folks who truly want to live long and well.
- Amazon Customer Review
• I Do Not Recommend
20 March, 2010
I'm a veteran so I have a dietician to consult. I showed her this book and her comment was "extreme and not healthy."
Read and follow at your own risk. Or save your money.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Still Extremely Important, And Here's Why--
25 September, 2009
Of all the "alternative medicine" heart books out there (or at least the five best-sellers that I've read), Ornish's is still the most complete, up-to-date, sensible and safe. Esselstyne's, which is currently in the number one slot in sales, is practically the same except slightly more "radical" (he prohibits oils of any kind--whether fish, flax, soy). It's simpler to read, briefer, and more current (probably accounting for its popularity), but for the most part it's a stripped-down version of Ornish's book, even following the same organization (advice plus lots of recipes). Ornish's program has the advantage of giving consideration to factors other than food and exercise as a therapeutic measure, and is the more "philosophic." (Also, there's the matter of sugar and triglycerides, appended below.)
What sets Ornish apart, above all, is his holistic approach. He's fully aware that just as conventional medicine has placed excessive emphasis on stents, statins and bypasses, alternative medicine has committed much the same when on too-exclusive emphasis on foods, fish oils, various vitamins, enzymes, proteins and amino acids. Ornish looks squarely at the mental-emotional-spiritual dimension of human experience and the role of stress on heart disease. Just as literature-philosophy-theology teachers of modern thought dwell on the theme of alienation--from self, from others, from a higher power--in a modern and post-modern world, Ornish repeatedly comes back to the same theme, quoting, for example, T. S. Eliot and "The Four Quartets" (the Thunder's words at the end of "The Wasteland" also resonate here). For Ornish the operative word is not "alienation" but "isolation," which must be confronted and overcome at all costs for healing to occur. Quoting Sam Keene, he makes it clear that projecting one's own biases against the "other"--as members of hate groups are want to do--is no antidote to "isolation." It requires control, sympathy, understanding, perhaps above all a rejection of material values and the need to be liked. Ornish's is the one book that goes beyond what to eat and not to eat, what pills to take and avoid, what exercises to do and how often. His is the most spiritual approach.
Here's the problem with some of the other books--for example, by Sinatra (who to his credit provides the most specific, illuminating information about "the new cardiology" or Ignarro (Dr. N.O.): With the exception of Ornish and Esselstyne, they prescribe the consumption of vitamins, supplements, pills and powders in megadoses that are not proven to be without side-effects which, for some individuals, can be draining and stressful in themselves. I know people who can't tolerate probiotics, ginseng, S-ame, goldenseal, grapefruit seed oil, and any number of the recent supplements that are sold simply on the basis of one "expert's" say-so, the cooperation of the vitamin manufacturers, and without FDA approval. To ingest the quantities of CoQ-10 and d-Ribose recommended by Sinatra or the 4 grams of d-Arginnine plus Citrulline required by Ignarro (in addition to 5 to 10 other "essential" supplements) is to invite a certain amount of discomfort before any of the advertised effects might be noticed. Indeed, to follow these recommendations is to trust that the medical "establishment" is completely ignorant of the wondrous powers of these supplements or determined to make us over-tax the health care system more than is already the case.
Lord knows, the FDA, or organized medicine, has slipped up its share of the time, has been overly slow to approve some measures, overly hasty in other cases. But to demonize them as some sort of vast conspiracy intent upon keeping us all feeling unwell is, however much of a therapeutic placebo to some, an insult to common sense and logic. In fact, some of these health evangelists--going back to Adele Davis and Linus Pauling--prescribe as much from the perspective of belief, faith and theology as caution, wisdom, and science.
[Not a popular review, but I stand by it. Even in his preface (p. xxix), Ornish calls attention to a matter that I simply missed while reading 5-6 more current books on CVD: simple carbs, or "non-fat" sugar and corn syrup. Yes, Esselstyne (and the rest, too) endorses organic, whole grain products, which would ensure the reader imbibes essential complex carbs. But the other books don't always explain as fully as necessary the primary REASON for watching the carbs no less than the fats. It leads to high sugar blood counts, overproduction of insulin, insulin resistance and, as a result, not only tiredness but elevated triglycerides and high blood pressure. I had been so exclusively focused on HDL and LDL and the avoidance of all meat, dairy, oils, fats, etc. that I was inadequately prepared for the results of a truly comprehensive lipid panel. To be fair to Esselstyne, it was from a paper on his website--not from any personal physician--that I learned about the absolute necessity of staying on Plavix following insertion of a chemically-treated stent. All the more reason to try alternative measures--such as the diet changes recommended by Ornish and Esselstyne--to preserve that precious endothelium before replacing it with something you didn't receive from your mother.]
- Amazon Customer Review
• Ornish Was Well Ahead Of His Time
23 December, 2009
Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease is copyright 1990, but is as relevant in 2010 as it was 20 years ago. It's a simple premise and, sadly, will not be followed in the U.S. until heart disease is beyond epidemic. The average American follows a food regimen that is unhealthy, while also getting little physical exercise. Ornish advocates a largely vegetarian diet and ample exercise. It seems a simple enough regimen, but the vast majority of people who suffer from heart disease seem to prefer drugs and surgery to changing their dietary and exercise habits.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Dr. Dean Ornish's Program For Reversing Heart Disease
27 April, 2009
My cholesterol was 270. My doctor wanted to prescribe drugs to lower the reading. I found Dr. Ornish's book and followed the 10% low fat diet strictly. In six weeks by cholesterol declined to 192. My weight dropped from 200 pounds to 185. I could not believe how much better I felt. I have more energy and I have as much strength as before. I am never hungary because I eat all day long. My diet consists of primarily fruits, vegtables, beans, rice whole grains, no fat yogurt egg whites and no fat milk. I would not have believed it if I had not done it.
Additionally you will be amazed at how much fat there is in all of the processed food most Americans consume each day. My advice is to try it for 6 weeks. If you do not have good results then go back to your prior routine. Only your health is at stake.
I would urge you to take control of your life by changing your lifestyle through diet, exercise and stress management. Dr. Ornish writes so anyone can understand his philosophy. Try it because it works.
- Amazon Customer Review
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