Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
by Dean Ornish
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Book Reviews of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
Book Review: The Logorrhea Diet
Summary: 4 Stars
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. Book Review: Excellent book.....
Summary: 5 Stars
I wish I had followed this book when I had my first heart attack in 1989. It's good, well-written, easy to understand. Highly recommend it.Book Review: not pleased
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this after starting a copy a Dr. friend loaned me. Really liked the orignal book's content and found very helpful. This copy however is half the origional's size,vary hard to read,and I felt compermised what I belived I was ordering.Book Review: This book saved my life!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so glad to have gotten this book because it changed my life! My mother has survived both a heart attack and a stroke leaving her in my care. I have had chest pains and went to the doctor for him to tell me that I was following in her footsteps. Since using this book both my mother and I as well as my daughter have been using the diet and exercise plans and meditate and do Yoga and we have never felt better. It is simple and easy to follow if you have a strong desire to care for yourself and your health. Meat=Bad SatFats=Bad and Oils=Bad.....simply don't buy them anymore and it won't be such a tough problem to get them OUT of your life. This book should be placed in every school in America to teach our children how to take care of themselves so that they do not end up with arteries as clogged as our generations have due to not being informed of what the right foods are to eat and what foods to stay away from when WE were young. We used to eat a lot of meat without even knowing what it was doing to us inside. Now we eat veggies and fruit and don't miss the meat at all. And the real plus is my daughter is learning how to pick the right foods from a young age to protect her health while she grows up. I went to the doctor in January to discover ALL signs of heart disease have been reversed! I plan to live over 100 years of age and now this may just become a reality for me! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!Book Review: FREE AT LAST
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a 46 year old dentist. I worked as a lab tech in a cardiology lab at Washington University in St. Louis as an undergraduate. While there I published two abstracts, as first author, in the American Journal of Cardiology in 1980 & '81. All this does not make me an expert by any stretch of the imagination. However I do hold more knowledge about the science relating to the ornish diet than most people not involved in the field of healthcare. The professor, Dr. H, I worked under in St. Louis often talked about his days of residency, 30 years earlier, at a large hospital in Mexico. Whenever a patient experienced a heart attach, all the residents were called in to observe because it was such a rare occurance. Dr. H said that he made similar observations in Asia. Yet by the time I met Dr. H heart attacks had become routine events in the hospitals where he previously worked. Dr. H firmly believed that the single overwhelming factor of diet caused this dramatic shift from rare to frequent cardiac arrests in those populations. The people there had shifted from very low fat, high complex carb, near-vegetarian diets to a more carnivorous, high fat, western-style diet. Then the arteries started clogging. When I realized that my own total cholesterol was extremely high, I became quite concerned. My physician prescribed Lipitor. I did not like the side effects, and, generally, I dislike taking any medication. So I looked for a diet that resembled that described by Dr. H. Dr. Ornishes diet (as well as that of John McDougall) fit the bill. After 2 months on the Ornish diet my total cholestrol dropped from 310 to 156. After 6 months I had lost weight from 187 lbs. to 154 lbs. and I felt great. I have read some of the concerns about risks involved in the Ornish diet. Frankly, I find them absurd. Were you worried about the risks of eating chicken, beef, fried foods, sauteed foods? Did you ever eat fast food? I think some folks may have analysis paralysis because the Ornish diet is unsual. That's understandable. But get over it. This diet will not only prolong your life, it will prolong your Healthy life. Enjoy the foods; become creative in the kitchen; set yourself free from the horrible diets we've been sold all our lives.