List Books » What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Hypertension: The Revolutionary Nutrition and Lifestyle Program to Help Fight High Blood Pressure
Authors: Mark Houston, Barry Fox, Nadine Taylor, Barry Fox (With), Nadine Taylor-Fox
ISBN-13: 9780446690843, ISBN-10: 0446690848
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Houston offers a revolutionary, all-natural treatment program for reversing hypertension, the "silent killer" that affects more than 60 million Americans.
One in four Americans has high blood pressure, the disease known as the "silent killer." Uncontrolled, it can damage the heart, kidneys, brain, and other critical organs and cause heart attacks and strokes. Here, Houston (Vanderbilt Univ. Sch. of Medicine) touts his ten-point Hypertension Institute Program-which includes adhering to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, exercise, weight loss, smoking cessation, decreased caffeine and alcohol use, stress management, nutritional supplements, and physician support-combined with "Vaso-Guard Therapy," a cocktail of vitamins, minerals, and nutraceuticals designed to lower one's blood pressure without prescription medications. While most of the information is accurate, Houston's language is complex and intimidating; an appendix examining medical studies that support Houston's therapy will be virtually unintelligible to the average individual. Alan L. Rubin's High Blood Pressure for Dummies and Thomas Moore's The DASH Diet for Hypertension are far better choices.-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans' Hosp. Lib., Tampa, FL Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Introduction | ix | |
Chapter 1. | The Symptomless Disease | 1 |
Chapter 2. | What Sends Your Blood Pressure Soaring? | 14 |
Chapter 3. | The Multifaceted Solution | 45 |
Chapter 4. | The Hypertension Institute Program | 89 |
Chapter 5. | The DASH Diet | 100 |
Chapter 6. | Design Your Own Diet | 131 |
Chapter 7. | Prime the Pump with Exercise | 155 |
Chapter 8. | De-Stress Your Life | 177 |
Chapter 9. | If Medicine Is Necessary | 186 |
Chapter 10. | The Future Is Yours | 219 |
Appendix. | A Closer Look at the Studies | 224 |
Notes | 253 | |
Index | 279 |