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Summary: Informative.......Valuable.......User Friendly
Review: Dr. Houston, a master teacher, gives the reader critical information in a practical format. The informative text becomes a valuable handbook for lifestyle improvement.
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Summary: A Life-Saving Primer
Review: Dr. Mark Houston has created a "must-read" for the nearly half of the American adult population dealing with high blood pressure. Today, more than ever, it is critically important that we as medical consumers have a fundamental understanding of the nature of our health issues and the choices available to us. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension gives us the ability to make an informed decision in partnership with our physician. Pharmaceutical companies make untold millions of dollars each year dispensing anti-hypertensive drugs. Certainly, these medicines save lives and extend quality of life for millions of people. But if given a choice, how many of us would rather take a natural approach? It is refreshing and reassuring that a respected medical researcher like Dr. Houston is presenting these options to us in a way that we can implement. Dr. Houston and his collaborators have also done a great job in making complex scientific information both easy to understand and interesting. This book is perhaps the best gift for a friend or loved one who you know has high blood pressure and is not doing anything to successfully reduce it-an estimated 60 million Americans today. You may help them prevent the walking time-bomb of premature death and disability from stroke and heart disease.
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Summary: A Groundbreaking Book for All Hypertensives
Review: Dr. Mark Houston's book is a superb guide for patients with high blood pressure who seek to use nutrition to help reverse and control this condition. Two unique features about this book are: 1. It is exhaustively researched 2. It is based on Dr. Houston's clinical experience with thousands of patients. This makes it the most authoritative guide available on this topic. High blood pressure is not simply a problem that indicates that medication is needed: it is a sign that a lifestyle and nutrition overhaul of one's life may also be in order. Given the side effects of many medications, it is my hope as a nutritionist and researcher that all hypertensive patients will read this book, take it to their doctor, and discuss many of the well-researched options this book discusses. Patients often feel much better when nutritional therapies are integrated into their blood pressure management program, and this book finally shows the hypertensives the right way to do it. As a medical professor, researcher, author of numerous scientific papers, and busy clinician, Dr. Houston is the most qualified person there is to show hypertensives how to use diet, nutrients, and other natural approaches to lower their blood pressure. Now that he has done his part in giving the world this superb book, hypertensives must do their part and follow his excellent advice with the guidance of their physician if they wish to take full advantage of all that medicine--orthodox and nutritional--has to offer them.
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Summary: A Must-Read
Review: Dr. Mark Houston's book promoting nutrition and a healthy lifestyle as potent weapons in the fight against high blood pressure is absolutely excellent. It is refreshing to see an esteemed medical professional embrace alternative therapies rather than relying solely on prescription drugs and vague instructions to "lose weight, exercise, and eat healthier foods." It contains not only useful information and easy-to-understand guidelines for those battling hypertension, but also practical, sound advice for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle. I recommend this book with the highest enthusiasm!
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Summary: Just What I Wanted to Know
Review: I became interested in hypertension after I had successfully knocked off 50 pounds of obesity with the Atkins low carohydrate Way Of Eating (WOE).
Now I was more positively interested in continuing to aid my state of body health.... and attention turned to Hypertension.
What next steps..... after Low Carb......?
The DASH (Dietary Approache to Stopping Hypertension) looked good because it also focused on a Way Of Eating (WOE) which was supposed to inprove heart health in a major way. But DASH conflicts with Atkins..... low carb, because DASH is a remix of the AHA (American Heart Association) Low Fat-High Carb way of eating with some other stuff thrown in.
Doctor Houston's book modifies DASH ..... and gets it off the narrow focus on LOW FAT & HIGH CARB...... which is what helped keep me fat for so long.
I found the book didn't hesitate to be technical at a level that isn't intimidating.
The book also provided to me the way out of my dilema of how to transition from Atkins Low Carb to some heart focused healthy Way Of Eating.
Dr Houston clearly thinks for himself, and reads medical and nutritional literature with an open mind. Unusual for a Medical Doctor....
Thank you, Doctor Mark C Houston.
PS: Please put a few more drawings and flow charts in the next edition... those things keep an engineer's attention.
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Summary: A Life-Saving Primer
Review: I READ HEALTH BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS BY THE DOZENS, AND THIS PARTICULAR BOOK DOES AND SAYS IT ALL WHEN IT COMES TO TREATING HYPERTENSION...I LIKE THE FACT THAT THE DOCTORS ARE SO WELL INFORMED ON THE TOTALITY OF TREATMENT INCLUDING SUPPLEMENTS..
THIS IS A BOOK EVERYONE SHOULD READ WHO WANTS TO STAY HEALTHY FOR YEARS TO COME..
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Summary: Concise, yet complete.
Review: If you are looking for a book to educate yourself in the use of vitamins, minerals and diet in the treatment of hypertension, pick up a copy of this book. Inside, Mark Houston thoroughly explains the science behind using both dietary supplements and diet therapy to help fight high blood pressure. Both health professionals and people who would like to acquaint themselves with the scientically based alternatives that have been proven through scientific research will find a wealth of useful information inside. Concise and easy to read, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension" contains the latest information about how to control hypertension through the use of diet and dietary supplements, compiled neatly into a single comprehensive guide.
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Summary: Concise, yet complete.
Review: If you are looking for a book to educate yourself in the use of vitamins, minerals and diet in the treatment of hypertension, pick up a copy of this book. Inside, Mark Houston thoroughly explains the science behind using both dietary supplements and diet therapy to help fight high blood pressure. Both health professionals and people who would like to acquaint themselves with the scientically based alternatives that have been proven through scientific research will find a wealth of useful information inside. Concise and easy to read, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension" contains the latest information about how to control hypertension through the use of diet and dietary supplements, compiled neatly into a single comprehensive guide.
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