The Cure for Obesity & Chronic Disease
High blood pressure is the number-one risk factor for death in the world. In the United States, it affects nearly 78 million people, one in three adults. As we age, our blood pressures get higher and higher, such that by age 60, high blood pressure strikes more than half of us. Read full article More information: http://NutritionFacts.org and http://www.DrGreger.org and…
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The first-line treatment for hypertension is lifestyle modification, which often includes the DASH diet. What is it and how can it be improved? More information: http://NutritionFacts.org and http://www.DrGreger.org and How Not to Die and How Not to Die Cookbook, a New York Times bestseller
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Cooking methods for meat, including fish, increase risk for high blood pressure, according to data presented at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans earlier this month. Researchers compared meat consumed after high-temperature cooking methods and tracked hypertension incidence rates from more than 100,000 disease-free participants. Increased consumption of red meat, fish, and chicken prepared on an open-flame and…
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Elevated blood pressure, or hypertension, is associated with serious health problems, such as strokes, heart attacks, and kidney failure. Most people believe the problem with hypertension is that the elevated pressure damages the arteries and the body’s organs. Actually, it is more often the other way around. The rise in blood pressure is a response to a sick body—the blood…
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Randy Oba had two transient ischemic attacks (also called: TIA, mini stroke) in six months, was on high blood pressure medication for over 30 years, had an angioplasty after a heart attack and weighed over 245 pounds. Then he watched Forks over Knives and read Dr. McDougall’s books. This changed his life. He has lost over 70 pounds, is off all medications…
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