Reversing Hypertension: A Vital New Program to Prevent, Treat, and Reduce High Blood Pressure [9780446676632]

Using diet, nutritional supplements, exercise and other lifestyle changes, Dr Whitaker shows how to prevent or manage high blood pressure without recourse to drugs and their unwanted side effects.

It Strikes One in Four Americans Without Warning... it triples your risk of dying from a heart attack...it increases your risk of stroke sevenfold...it can lead to kidney disease, diabetes, and blindness...and to fight it, you may be taking expensive-and dangerous-drugs. Now Dr. Julian Whitaker, a leading champion of nutritional medicine and the author of Reversing Diabetes and Reversing Heart Disease, unleashes a new weapon in the war against hypertension. His simple yet dramatically effective plan offers: * a comprehensive program of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and stress management-to replace or cut down your dependence on medication * Dr. Whitaker's Quick Start Diet-to decrease dangerously high blood pressure fast * over 30 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.