http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Reversing or halting heart disease by combining cholesterol medication with a cardio-oriented diet...double benefits Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT Web Easy by Avanquest Software The Journal of the American Medical Association, July 23/30, 2003 The New England Journal of Medicine, 1985; 313,52 http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4478 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4478#1 There are, at long last, some very good news for people who have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease or have suffered a heart attack ( M.I. ). Many patients (most patients) are still unaware of an important fact: More often than not, you do not have to sit and watch helplessly the progression of the disease. Coronary heart disease can now be reversed to some significant degree. The therapy may add years and even decades to one's life and restore quality of life. The best techniques and methods that are the path to successful CHD reversal are usually some form of combination therapy. Medical intervention ( angioplasty or other procedures) and the prescription of drugs such as Lipitor and Crestor, when combined with the appropriate nutrition or diet can make the big difference between the progression of the disease and its actual reversal or regression. Over the past decades, in an attempt to answer the question “How to best treat or How to best cure heart disease?”, some clinicians and researchers have been able to develop methods that achieve such reversal goals. New research (the Harvard Medical School) now demonstrates clearly that medication and improved (heart healthy) nutrition work independently of each other, so that the benefits of one therapy are actually ADDED on top of the benefits of the other. For example, if your medication, alone, yields a 38% improvement and your improved diet, alone, yields a 19% improvement, your total improvement will be 38 + 19 or an impressive 57%. The improved survival rates are even more impressive ! http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#2 The hM Nutrition Journal contains articles and recipes relative to Cooking Methods and Food Selection for the Improvement of Health, Management of Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, High Cholesterol, and the Maintenance of a Healthy Weight / including Computer Assisted Diet Planning and Nutrition Analysis. hM strongly recommends using the information and healthy recipes provided on this website under the professional supervision of your doctor or registered dietitian . Whether you are seeking to improve your general health, reverse heart disease, control diabetes or your weight, always assume that getting professional advice from your MD or RD is best. http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#3 http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#4 The ad space above provided "courtesy of heartMonitron" as a service to readers. hM and The American Heart Association are not related. http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#5 Nutrition and Heart Disease: Causation and Prevention by Dr Ronald Ross Watson PhD and Dr Victor R. Preedy PhD http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#6 http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#7 Discover How to "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" Author: Caldwell B Esselstyn MD http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#8 "The Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook" The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#9 Can the Best Medical Treatment, When Combined with the Best Cardiac-Oriented Diet and Nutrition, Make The Big Difference ? - Part I http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#10 Although not a physician himself, one of the grand pioneers was certainly Nathan Pritikin who was said to have cured and reversed his own heart disease in the 1950's. After having had a heart attack, Nathan Pritikin untertook to develop his own special diet. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, in 1985, when he passed away (long after his heart attack), his arteries were found, on autopsy, to be relatively free of the disease. Stunningly, his arteries were also found to be soft and pliable. His legacy is The Pritikin Longevity Center. ( www.pritikin.com ) The Pritikin organization claims to achieve coronary heart disease reversal mainly by nutritional or dietary means. Pritikin may well have traced a sort of road-map titled "How to Reverse Heart Disease with the right diet or heart-healthy nutrition. ( hM on Pritikin: the program may work well with strong-responders to dietary treatment, but may not be enough with weak-responders. Consequently, the taking of medication should not be stopped ). http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#11 http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#12 Dr. DEAN ORNISH MD, (Director : The Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Professor of Medicine : The UCSF School of Medicine). He his one of the leading proponents of a daily diet that promotes nutrition principles that closely match those introduced by The China Study. Dr. Ornish is an advocate of lifestyle changes (no more than 10% of calories coming from fat, whole foods, vegetarian diet, smoking cessation, exercise and stress management). A famed published scientific study called "The Lifestyle Heart Trial" has validated the nutritional principles: "Overall, 82% of experimental-group patients had an average change towards regression. Comprehensive lifestyle changes may be able to bring about regression of even severe coronary atherosclerosis after only 1 year", The techniques and treatment methods advocated by Dr. Ornish have been cited in several publications - see: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol 280 No 23 Dec 16 1998 http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#13 6- Dr. CALDWELL B ESSELSTYN MD, Researcher : The Cleveland Clinic. His strict program and diet causes the actual regression of CHD http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#14 8- Dr. DAVID J A JENKINS, MD, PhD, Director/Clinical Nutrition, St-Michael's Hospital / similar techniques, same good results. http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:56 GMT heartMonitron NGBeditor http://www.heartmonitron.com/hm_meddigest_journals_on_nutrition-_heart_and_diabetes-_cholesterol_and_healthy_weight_003.htm#15