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Compassionate Teaching and Studies About animals, food, health, and the environment From All-Creatures.org

A growing number of physicians now claim that a healthful plant-based, oil-free diet can prevent and (in some cases) even reverse heart disease.
12 August 2008

Dr. Esselstyn has meticulously followed more than a dozen patients with advanced coronary disease who adopted his program. He writes in his book (see below) that patients saw cholesterol levels plummet and their angina disappear. After five years, 11 patients who underwent follow-up angiograms had stopped or reversed progression of the disease, he wrote.

 A Strategy to Arrest and Reverse Coronary Artery Disease: A 5 -Year Longitudinal Study of a Single Physician's Practice Esselstyn CB Jr. et al: The Journal of Family Practice 1995 December; 41(6): 560-68   
www.heartattackproof.com/study01_background.htm

"Ex-surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. espouses a noninvasive cure for heart disease" by Harlan Spector, June 09, 2008 – The Cleveland Plain Dealer   www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2008/06/exsurgeon_caldwell_esselstyn_e.html

Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., MD
http://heartattackproof.com

Dr. Dean Ornish – Preventative Medicine Research Institute
www.pmri.org

 "Ex-surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. espouses a noninvasive cure for heart disease" http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2008/06/exsurgeon_caldwell_esselstyn_e.html

No More Heart Attacks – Ever – 8 minute video featuring Dr. Esselstyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNeWCvLZaFM

 "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Dr. Calwell B. Esselstyn Jr., M.D. Dr. Esselstyn’s 20-year study proving changes in diet and nutrition can actually cure heart disease
  www.heartattackproof.com/

"Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery"
www.amazon.com/Ornishs-Program-Reversing-Heart-Disease/dp/0804110387

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