Reversing Hypertension : A Vital New Program to Prevent, Treat, and Reduce High Blood Pressure

(Paperback)-It strikes one in four Americans without warning. It's the single major underlying cause of heart attacks and strokes. Left untreated, it gradually destroys the heart, blood vessels, and kidneys. To make matters worse, doctors often overmedicate patients with expensive and sometimes dangerous drugs. Now Dr. Julian Whitaker, a champion of nutritional medicine, unleashes a new weapon in the war against hypertension: a simple yet dramatically effective plan to help you make the right healthy choices to beat "the silent killer." In this complete guide to reducing hypertension for life, Dr. Whitaker will show you what causes blood pressure to rise and how to bring it down to normal levels. He'll explain how the commonly prescribed drugs lower blood pressure, and why they can be hazardous if taken for many years. Most important, he shows you how to prevent or even reverse hypertension by addressing its root causes with: * a comprehensive program of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and stress management-to replace or decrease your dependence on medication * Dr. Whitaker's Quick Start Diet-a new way to decrease dangerously high blood pressure fast * over thirty easy recipes for delicious, low-fat, healthy eating * custom-tailored exercises, from simple stretching to extensive walking regimens * tips on how to properly balance your salt intake and drink more water-hypertension's most overlooked remedy * important information on inexpensive mineral supplements, EDTA chelation and EECP therapies, and much more. Combining the very best of conventional and proven alternative medicines, REVERSING HYPERTENSION is the natural therapy, light-on-drugs, healthy lifestyle way to safely reduce blood pressure. It will help you take charge of your health-and add years to your life. The bad news: Hypertension affects an estimated fifty million Americans and countless millions worldwide....It is the most significant predisposing factor for heart attack, stroke, and peripheral artery disease...triples your risk of dyin