Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery - Hardcover

Ornish, Dean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394575652 ISBN 13: 9780394575650

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Based upon conclusions from his own research study namely that heart disease can often be halted or even reversed simply through appropriate changes in lifestyle Ornish presents a simple but comprehensive program involving diet (recipes included), meditation, visualization, stress management, and moderate exercise. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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About the Author

Dean Ornish, M.D., is president and director of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and an attending physician at California Pacific Medical Center.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>

From the Inside Flap

nish's landmark research validates the advice he provides."<br><br>-- Alexander Leaf, M.D.<br><br>Chairman, Department of Preventive<br><br>Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology<br><br>Harvard Medical School<br><br>This is a book about healing your heart.<br><br>In this breakthrough book, Dr. Dean Ornish presents the first scientific proof that it is possible to actually reverse heart disease without drugs or surgery.<br><br>Dr. Ornish's internationally acclaimed scientific study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and based on thirteen years of research, has yielded astonishing conclusions: Heart disease can often be halted or even reversed -- without bypass surgery, angioplasty, or cholesterol-lowering drugs -- simply by changing our life-style.<br><br>Participants in Dr. Ornish's study, all of whom had severe coronary heart disease, followed his extraordinary Opening Your Heart program with amazing results: their chest pain diminish

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394575652
• ISBN 13: 9780394575650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 631