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"There is little question any more that artery plaque reversal can for the first time be considered possible." Dr Nash in Circulation, official journal of the American Heart Association, September 1977.
"With a cholesterol level of 150 or less, plaque reversal in two years is possible." Dr R Wissler, Chicago Medical School, addressing the American Heart Association, June 1977.
"The three major killers in modern society, Coronary Heart Disease, Cancer and Strokes, can all be linked to what people eat and drink." Dr B Hetzel, Chief of the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition and Foundation Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
"The major cancers of our time are diet-caused, mainly by fat and cholesterol." Dr Ernst Wynder, American Health Foundation, addressing the USA Government Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs.
"With this kind of approach, diet only, 80% of diabetics in this country could be normal in 30 to 90 days." Dr James Anderson, University of Kentucky Medical Centre.
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ELDERLY heart disease victims were able to walk up to 10 miles a day after undertaking a new diet and exercise program, a medical conference was told. Previously, they could walk only a few hundred feet, doctors reported. The doctors told the conference in Atlanta that the program had produced "astounding" results. The diet strictly controls the intake of all fat, both saturated and unsaturated. The doctors, who conducted the diet study, said the most significant finding was evidence which indicated generalised atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, can be reversed in humans by diet, as it has been demonstrated to be done in monkeys. The study was conducted by the Longevity Research Institute of Santa Barbara, California. It was presented at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. The doctors said some elderly people in the program were walking at least six miles and some 10 miles a day before the end of the six-month study. All began jogging before the study's end, they said. In some patients, angina was reduced 100 per cent and hypertension, or high blood pressure, 75 per cent without drugs. Some subjects in the study who also suffered from diabetes experienced a return to normal without drugs. Dr Stewart Gorney said the project "was the first controlled study in man of heart disease which has shown a reversal of this disease. He termed it "major new evidence that heart disease, the major cause of death in the United States, can be reversed." Doctors said the study used a new therapeutic technique with patients with advanced degenerative vascular diseases. The rapid return toward normal health had occurred in patients with symptoms of coronary insufficiency with angina, hypertension, leg pain, diabetes, arthritis, gout and other symptoms of degenerative vascular disease. In 30 days, all patients had improved to the point where drugs were no longer needed. The program of diet and exercise was so effective that several angina patients preparing for open heart surgery had tested normal in four to 12 weeks. Dr Gorney said the diet calls for a restriction of fat intake, both saturated and unsaturated, to 10 per cent. An average American diet is 42 per cent. "Combined with a controlled exercise routine, the diet produces changes within a few weeks which increase blood flow and raise the oxygen content of the blood," he said. "The improved circulation quickly betters the patient's condition and permits the body to start the healing process that is the key to permanent recovery." AAP, New York |