Product Description
A powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart disease therapy.

Based on the groundbreaking results of a twenty-year nutritional study by Dr. Esselstyn, a preeminent researcher and clinician, this book illustrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease but can also reverse its effects. The proof lies in the incredible outcomes for patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's program, including a number of patients in his original study who had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of starting the program, Dr. Esselstyn's patients began to improve dramatically, and twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms.

Complete with more than 150 delicious recipes, this book explains the science behind the simple plan that has drastically changed the lives of Dr. Esselstyn's patients forever. It will empower readers to take control of their heart health.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 111 reviews)

Pay attention, this book is important by S. Wright (Arizona/Oregon)

5 Stars
June 21, 2009
This book, along w/ The China Study by T. Collin Campbell, should be required reading and study. I've listened to several proponents of whole food-plant based nutrition talk about both books; I've now read them and believe that they merit attention.

Heaven by Derrell L. Chastain (Fort Worth, TX)

5 Stars
June 12, 2009
After seeing several friends go down with heart desease and have bypass, as well as my mom dying from complications of bypass, I wanted something that worked. This seems to be the best, quickest, most direct way to heart health. He pulls no punches and states it is "All, or nothing" so there are no surprises later on. And here is my eureka moment... Doctor Esslestyn even CALLED ME! I had a couple of questions so went to his website and I was blown away when he called me and answered my questions! This doctor is one who is after the cure through care not just another book sell. I am totally impressed and look forward to being heart healthy.

Masterpiece, pioneering work of preventive medicine! by Diet Doctor (USA)

5 Stars
June 02, 2009
This book is the best single book to decrease your risk of a heart attack. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings that explain acute plaque rupture versus chronic atherosclerotic stenosis. This is the key concept to understand as a guiding light to optimizing your vascular health. Eating and exercising to keep your coronary arteries wide open will also improve blood flow to your brain and reproductive organs. The illustrations include cardiac cath/coronary angiogram images. I am a physician and the data is now showing more and more that diet is the cornerstone of preventive medicine. Eg. in the past it was argued that a positive FH (family history) implied a genetic risk. More and more,instead of being due to shared genes, this has often been shown due to shared environmental risk factors eg. diet, tobacco, obesity, alcohol etc. This is good news, because, you can't change your genes, but you can change your diet. The good news is that you can take control and improve your life. If you are interested in optimizing your health, I also recommend the China Study by Campbell, any book by John McDougall MD and the DVD "Rogers Diet" of which I am the author. The DVD is a convenient way to get an MD's advice on cholesterol, diet, wt loss and prevention of heart attack & diabetes etc.The Rogers Diet

Excellent. by Benjamin Britton (Colorado, USA)

4 Stars
May 22, 2009
Well, I am going to make this 'review' a running blog of sorts.

I will be starting the diet and posting my results via edits here.

My review:

The book is well written and provocative. Enough so that I am going to try it due to my family heart history (I'm 29 almost 30 but have had a 'bad' cholesterol recently of 199).

It gets 4 stars because being that this book was written by a physician, he makes a few unsupported claims... the main one being that no one with a total cholesterol of less than 150 has any heart problems, and therefore you are heart attack proof. There are several BILLION people on the earth. It highly likely that there are several people that have had heart attacks at or below this number, however rare.

Next... Dr Esselstyn's book focuses on a study of about 21 people. He has great results, indeed. But any scientist of any sort, ESPECIALLY A PHYSICIAN should know that this is an insignificant number (take a college level statistics class if you don't believe me). With approx 300 MILLION Americans... 21 is statistically irrelevant. Had his study been of a few hundred, per city, composed of random varying cities across the US, with randomly selected participants, it would have much more validity.

Despite this serious scientific faux pas, which he should have at least addressed, the pictorial results of the progress are amazing, and thus I will be trying this, and probably sticking with it. I would like to see my two daughters grow up and not meet the same fate as both of my grandfathers and two uncles.

Thus, I will be posting my results every 2 months or so here.

I recommend it :D.

Reverse Heart Disease by Carole Decker

4 Stars
May 12, 2009
I can say that there are many good proven views in "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease".

However, I do not want to become a vegetarian. Many of the wonderful diet books available adhere to a very strict diet. Since I do not have heart disease, I will try to restrict my diet to more chicken, fish and vegetables.

Thanks,

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