Product Description

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling, revolutionary idea-that we can, in fact, abolish the heart disease epidemic in this country by changing our diets. Drawing on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former surgeon, researcher, and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, convincingly argues that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects.

Furthermore, it can eliminate the need for expensive and invasive surgical interventions, such as bypass and stents, no matter how far the disease has progressed. Dr. Esselstyn began his research with a group of patients who joined his study after traditional medical procedures to treat their advanced heart disease had failed. Within months of following a plant-based, oil-free diet, their angina symptoms eased, their cholesterol levels dropped significantly, and they experienced a marked improvement in blood flow to the heart. Twenty years later, the majority of Dr. Esselstyn's patients continue to follow his program and remain heart-attack proof.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease explains the science behind these dramatic results, and offers readers the same simple, nutrition-based plan that has changed the lives of his patients forever. In addition, Dr. Esselstyn provides more than 150 delicious recipes that he and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have enjoyed for years and used with their patients. Clearly written and backed by irrefutable scientific evidence, startling photos of angiograms, and inspiring personal stories, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease will empower readers to take charge of their heart health. It is a powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart-disease therapy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45530 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., author of The China Study
One of the most outstanding projects in health research of the past century. It's relevant, it's caring, it's innovative, it's extremely well executed and it's very, very useful.

Dean Ornish, M.D., founder, president, and director of Preventive Medicine Research Institute and author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
Pioneering research demonstrating that the progression of even severe coronary heart disease can often be reversed by making changes in diet and lifestyle.

Mehmet Oz, M.D, coauthor of You: The Owner's Manual and You: On a Diet
A hard-nosed scientist shows us his secrets for successfully cleaning the rusting arteries of so many patients.

Customer Reviews

This book is a real eye opener...Time we Americans start eating right
I came acroos this book after reading a commentary from the Health Ranger on the sudden heart attack of NBC's Anchor of Meet The Press. I followed that link to this book and bought it on Amazon.com . I am now buying one for my daughter. I have read this book and looked though the recipes and asked myself...Gosh, can I really do this diet or should I say lifestyle change? But, then I realized, it is not how can I give up my many beloved foods, but rather, I must give up killing myself slowly but surely.
The recipes in this book, of the few I have tried so far, are really tasty , much to my surprise. Who knew Almond milk could taste so good?
I do not think I could have even started this change in what I eat without the many recipes included in this book. Having gone organic now for almost a year this is now my next step. The hard part will be getting my husband on board. But I am easing him into it.
I even called Dr. Esselstyn and he personally called me back to answer any questions I had. Now that is one very caring doctor. So all you out there in cyberspace, lets start getting healthy, because the way things are going none of us will be able to afford to get sick even with insurance. This at least gives us a fighting chance. I highly recommend this book. It is a good truthful look at how what we eat will effect us and it is an easy to read book that is motivational, answering the questions in the next chapter that you are asking youself in the chapter prior. I am thankful to have found this book and hope the rest of you find it to be as good as I do. Good health, good food, good heart.

Life-Changing (and possibly life-saving)!
My family has a history of heart disease. My brother and I have both been dealing with high blood pressure over the last few years. Although our BP is controlled with 3-5 prescription medications, we both want to see if we can get off of them ASAP. My brother read the book and started on the recommended diet about 3 months ago. He has lost more than 40 pounds and cut back on his medications. I started on the diet several weeks ago and have already lost 15 pounds and cut my medications. We both feel good and hope to cut our medications even more.

We both ate "healthy" foods and exercised regularly before starting the diet. We didn't start the new diet to lose weight, since neither of us was overly heavy. The diet can be difficult at times (traveling, restaurants, etc.), but the book provides some good hints on how to cope with such issues. I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to truly change their health and is willing to change their lifestyle to do it. The recipes are great!

Imagine If Tim Russert had Read Esselstyn
It so happens that I was reading Chapter 5, "Moderation Kills", in PREVENT AND REVERSE HEART DISEASE by Esselstyn when I learned of the recent, untimely death of TV news host, Tim Russert, In this chapter, Esselstyn explains why the standard 'moderate' cardiac regiman as prescribed for Russert often is associated with sudden death - and why such death is preventable.

I was drawn to the monograph because, at age 74 and free of cardiac symptoms, a plaque was demonstrated in a major coronary artery when I had a Coronary Artery Calcium Score/GE determined. My score of 460 was abnormally high -- and compares with the abnormal score of 210 received by Tim Russert in 1998 at age 48: [...]
Now, based on the wealth of clinical and epidemiologic evidence nicely presented and using the practical notes to food sources offered on pages 289 to 299, my wife and I are choosing to embark on the Esselstyn diet.

BTW, a strict low fat diet was not among the options suggested by my cardiologist and I doubt if the choice were ever offered by the medical profession to Tim Russert.

Roswell Eldridge, MD