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.
