Editorial Review:Product Description:'Whether or not you think you'll ever be concerned about your heart, this is likely to be the most useful book about health you'll read this year, maybe ever.'
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In this breakthrough book, Dr. Dean Ornish presents dramatic evidence that heart disease can be halted or even reversed simply by changing your life-style. Step-by-step he will guide you through the extraordinary Opening Your Heart program that 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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Best packet guide to healty living & heart disease
Dean Ormish's most popular book, is the best investment a person with heart disease can do.
I recommended this book and others by Dean Ormish for healthy people and people with risk of heart disease. All the technics and suggestions have been proven effective in scientific trials worldwide.
I do want to add that if you have heart disease you should be in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to benefit from the ideas of this book.
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Life Changing Book
I bought this book after having 5 way bypass surgery in 2001. This book encouraged me to change my diet and develop an exercise program. Now, seven years later, I am 50 pounds lighter, my LDL cholesterol is ~80 and I run 5K's at 61 years of age. I'm in the best shape I've been in in 30 years. It would have been nice to have read this book before I had surgery so I could have avoided the surgery, but I seldom do things until I am really motivated.
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Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
For the most part, this is an excellent book. However, some of the text is a bit too medical to be easily understood. Dr. Ornish from time to time seems to forget he's writing for lay people and not doctors or dieticians.
The diet itself is very restricted. No fat or meat. While this is a fine ideal to strive for, in the American diet pantry, I don't think it's altogether realistic. I followed the diet for a month and felt weak and exhausted every day. To be entirely honest, I found the diet rather boring.
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Heart Healthy
This is a great book. Everything everyone should know to add extra years to their life. Very well written and a book that we can all understand.
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The Logorrhea Diet
Yikes! What is about Dr. Ornish that makes reviewers run on so? I've never read such long vehement, screeds, pro and con. We bought this book to help us lower a slightly elevated "bad" cholesterol and tryglyceride problem in the family, and it has done that. IMHO, recipes contain a little too soy for post-menopausal women, but an informed reader need not work in a vacuum. Use common sense and modify the diet as needed. Add cold water fish, for example. Expect a good outcome even if you adopt only 80% of Ornish's menu.
