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Blood Pressure Down: The 10-Step Plan To Lower Your Blood Pressure In 4 Weeks--Without Prescription Drugs (2013)

by Janet Bond Brill(Favorite Author)
4.2 of 5 Votes: 1
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0307986357 (ISBN13: 9780307986351)
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English
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Harmony
review 1: Good book. It inspires confidence in being able to control blood pressure with diet and life style. Most of the points in the book I already know, but it is good to see them all in one place. And the book is a gentle reminder that there is no room in our diets for unhealthy food, especially as we age. I found myself jotting downs nutritional statistics of certain foods and bookmarking websites and apps. The book is useful no matter your level of knowledge of nutrition and health.
review 2: If you've been prescribed any type of blood pressure medication, as I have, you'll quickly discover all kinds of side effects --- real or imagined. The real ones are listed in the material you've probably tossed away -- the big sheet stapled to the prescription package.
... moreDoctors treating hypertension -- the technical name for "high blood pressure" -- often prescribe medication, which -- along with diet and lifestyle changes-- has as its goal treating a condition that affects 75 million Americans and is often called the "Silent Killer."In "Blood Pressure Down: The 10-Step Plan to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Weeks Without Prescription Drugs" Janet Bond Brill distills what she's learned over decades of helping her patients lower their blood pressure into a ten-step lifestyle plan that's manageable for anyone. If I can follow it -- and I'm trying my darndest, anybody can. By following Brill's program, you'll: • Harness the power of blood pressure power foods like bananas, spinach, and yogurt • Start a simple regimen of exercise and stress reduction • Stay on track with checklists, meal plans, and more than fifty simple recipesI'm currently taking blood pressure medication, but I hope after my next doctor visit in a couple of weeks to have my doc take me off it and allow me to continue my diet/lifestyle plan. I never thought I had high blood pressure, regularly getting readings in the 120/70 range, but lower is better.Bond, author of the best-selling books "Cholesterol Down" and "How to Prevent a Second Heart Attack", offers For the 75 million Americans with hypertension, a safe, effective lifestyle plan—incorporating the DASH diet principles and much more—for lowering blood pressure naturallyIf you have high blood pressure, you're not alone: nearly a third of adult Americans have been diagnosed with hypertension, and another quarter are well on their way. African-Americans are particularly vulnerable to hypertension, with a whopping four times as many people afflicted with high blood pressure than caucasians. Much of this difference is diet and lifestyle related, with African-Americans much more susceptible to obesity and diabetes than other racial groups.But don't pat yourself on the back too much if you're not black: Every racial and ethnic group is at risk to some degree. On top of this a whopping 56 percent of diagnosed patients do not have it under control. The good news? Hypertension is easily treatable (and preventable), and you can take action today to bring your blood pressure down in just four weeks—without the potential dangers and side effects of prescription medications. Caution: Don't discontinue any prescribed blood pressure medication until you discuss it with your doc. less
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Britt2kute
This book explained the balance needed for healthy blood pressure very clearly.
Tid94
11.2014. Phil js doing most of the steps she talks about.
lieshi
Interesting I formation. Debated some with my doctor.
militaryk9
had a lot of good info and charts
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