Word: ornish
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...separate controlled studies, Dr. David Blankenhorn of the University of Southern California and Dr. Greg Brown at the University of Washington have shown that the buildup of arterial plaque can be reversed by a combination of drugs and a low-fat diet. A third study, by Dr. Dean Ornish of the University of California at San Francisco, has generated even more remarkable results. In his book, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, published by < Random House this month, Ornish describes how changes in life-style alone, like reducing stress as well as fat, can effectively reverse heart...
While these results convinced both Blankenhorn and Brown that reduced cholesterol was the major contributor to the reversal, Ornish has his doubts. "If lowering cholesterol were the primary factor in causing reversal of heart disease," he notes in his book, "most of the patients in the studies by Dr. Blankenhorn and Dr. Brown who were taking cholesterol-lowering drugs should have shown reversal, since almost all of these patients had substantial decreases in blood-cholesterol levels. Yet only a minority showed reversal...
...Ornish believes these studies, unlike his, did not deal with other factors that he believes contribute greatly to cardiovascular disease: stress and an individual's "sense of isolation." His trial was small, involving only 41 San Francisco Bay area men with heart disease. The 19 participants in his control group were to follow their doctors' recommendations; for the 22 others in the experimental group, however, he ordered a strict, exacting regimen...
After just one year of the study, blockages in the arteries of two-thirds of the control group had worsened. But 18 of the 22 in Ornish's experimental group had an increase in blood flow to the heart and a regression of blockages, on average, from...
...study by Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif., has provided evidence that a mind-body program of group meetings, exercise, a low-fat diet and stress-management techniques like meditation can be effective in reversing even severe coronary-artery blockage after only a year. "To the degree heart disease can be reversed, it can be prevented," says Dr. Ornish...