Reversing Heart Disease: A Vital New Program to Help, Treat, and Eliminate Cardiac Problems Without Surgery

by Julian Whitaker

Overview

Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience, Julian Whitaker examines modern medicines's latest diagnostic techniques, treatment, and drugs and offers up improvements to his own comprehensive cardiac programme.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446676571
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2002
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.32(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Foreword to Revised Edition	xi
Part I	Heart Disease: Causes and Controversies
Chapter 1	The American Way to Die	3
Chapter 2	Atherosclerosis: The "Heart" of Heart Disease	18
Chapter 3	The Culprits in Cardiovascular Disease	33
Chapter 4	Partners in Disease	49
Part II	The Conventional Approach to Heart Disease
Chapter 5	Heart Disease and Modern Medicine	61
Chapter 6	The Slippery Slope of Diagnostics	68
Chapter 7	Bypass Surgery: Pros and Cons, Risks and Benefits	81
Chapter 8	Angioplasty and Coronary Artery Stenting: Overrated and Overused	105
Chapter 9	A Smorgasbord of Drugs	115
Part III	The Whitaker Wellness Institute Program for Reversing Heart Disease
Chapter 10	Heart Disease Is Reversible	137
Chapter 11	Diet and Health	154
Chapter 12	The Diet for Reversing Heart Disease	164
Chapter 13	Nutritional Supplementation: Essential for Optimal Health	201
Chapter 14	Nutritional Supplements That Heal the Heart	215
Chapter 15	Exercise for a Healthy Heart	247
Chapter 16	Stress, Emotions, and Your Heart	278
Chapter 17	Hormones and Heart Disease	293
Chapter 18	EECP, Chelation, and Hyperbaric Oxygen: Big Guns Against Heart Disease	310
Part IV	The Dietary Program for Reversing Heart Disease
Chapter 19	How to Approach the Dietary Program	327
Chapter 20	Getting Started	340
Chapter 21	Recipes for Reversing Heart Disease	348
Part V	The Program in Action
Chapter 22	Getting Started, Staying on Track	421
	Resources	439
	Notes	445
	Index	479