Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #212641 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

This really works!
I bought this book because, although I don't have heart disease, I do have a family history of heart disease on both sides of the family. Having read the book, I decided to follow the nutrition plan for a trial period of 3 months. I am six weeks into that trial period now and it hasn't been too hard to follow although I would admit I have deviated from it on 4 or 5 meals during the six weeks so I haven't followed it absolutely rigidly. I took my blood cholesterol today. My previous 10 readings were all between 4.4mmol/L(170mg/dL) and 6.9mmol/L (265mg/dL) but after six weeks on this plan I recorded my lowest ever reading of 2.5mmol/L (~95mg/dL) and my ratio of total cholesterol to HDL was 3.57 which is well within the healthy range.

On top of that, I have lost weight, lost body fat, and I feel great despite not doing as much exercise as I should be doing. If you want to get your blood cholesterol down without taking drugs to achieve it, this is a great way to do it. It requires some effort, but it's worth it.

A breakthrough in heart health
Esselstyn provides dramatic photo evidence from patient scans and angiograms that his nutritional regime, plus statins, can actually reverse heart disease. Since he also refers to other health problems such as strokes as having a common origin with heart disease, his findings can justifiably be called revolutionary. My only reservation about the book is that he does not refer to the importance for heart health of avoiding prolonged periods of stress. With the minor modifications of small portions of fish or chicken breast 2-3 times per week, I have adopted his diet following a minor heart attack 6 months ago and have found that an important benefit has been some desirable weight loss as well as a cholesterol reduction down to 2.8 total. This is essential reading for anyone with a history of heart disease or a tendency for it in the family. One supplememtary point is my strong recommendation to also buy the book on "Reverse Heart Disease Now" by Sinatra & Roberts, which includes much useful info on health supplements and, for those who want to dig into the underlying evidence of the long term damage potential of our western diet, I recommend "The China Study". Tony Carey

Reversing Heart Disease is possible
I have read this book with great interest as a sufferer from Heart disease for about 20 years. It is written with a great degree of knowledge and experience and pulls no punches in exposing the hypocrisy and self serving interest of the government and medical establishment who advocate a diet to supposedly prevent heart disease and yet the diet they promote inevitably still leaves the population liable to the disease. The book is thorough, though it would benefit from an index and a table of food values. The diet suggested by the author is extremely strict and contains one illogicality. The diet is vegan and has a maximum fat limit of 10% of daily calories obtained from fat. The author does not explain why animal products are banned in spite of the fact that the 10% limit could be achieved even with animal products - as I am able to do. I have also read Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease and I believe that is the better book on this subject.