Word: diets
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Weil, 55, a Harvard-educated physician, ought to know better than to tell stories like this. But Weil has a thousand of them. There's the one about the 19-year-old girl just months away from dying of a terminal blood disease who began a regimen of hypnotherapy, diet therapy and psychic healing, miraculously overcame her affliction and is now a 43-year-old mother of four. There's the one about the man apparently suffering from ulcerative colitis who did not respond to years of treatment by gastroenterologists but did respond to a therapist who manipulated his skull...
...wasted. Yet treatment for drug abuse has a failure rate no different from that for other chronic diseases. Close to half of recovering addicts fail to maintain complete abstinence after a year--about the same proportion of patients with diabetes and hypertension who fail to comply with their diet, exercise and medication regimens. What doctors who treat drug abuse should strive for, says Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is not necessarily a cure but long-term care that controls the progress of the disease and alleviates its worst symptoms. "The occasional relapse is normal...
...answer, it turns out, is yes. A study of 459 adults published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine showed for the first time that a diet that is low in saturated fat and combines lots of fruits and vegetables with low-fat dairy products can indeed reduce hypertension--and rather dramatically at that. Within two weeks, the blood pressure of the test subjects dropped significantly. By the end of the study, almost everyone on the combined diet saw their diastolic pressure drop an average of three to five points, or as much as 6%. Researchers calculate that...
...diet worked equally well for whites and African Americans, says Dr. Thomas Vogt, an epidemiologist at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, who helped coordinate the study known in the field as DASH--for Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension...
...changes in eating habits called for in the DASH diet are simple, but that does not necessarily make them easy to adopt. For one thing, you need to eat eight to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables each day--about twice the amount that most Americans consume. "It was definitely a challenge," says study participant Carol Long, 45, a systems analyst from Boston. "But it was worth it." Long, whose mother and grandfather both suffered strokes, saw her blood pressure drop 10%. "Now I eat fruits and vegetables all the time," she says. "And I'm trying...