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Heart Friendly Recipes

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Many of the recipes posted to the group will follow the Dean Ornish Heart Reversal Diet. Note this is not his weight loss program.

The purpose of the Heart Reversal Diet is to help those who need to reverse heart disease and is following a restrictive diet.

Dean Ornish's heart reversal diet consists of 10% fat from your daily calories. It does require 1 cup of full fat soy. A dab of olive oil is not part of this nor is eating at McDonalds, no matter what their site might say.

Carbs are to be whole not refined.

The recipes posted can be used on his weight loss diet. For more information on that read his Eat More, Weigh Less.

I will add more to this as time allows. For more information currently, please google the name and check www.webmd.com where more info is located.

Ornish requirements and examples

Ornish Links

Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Dean Ornish's Lifestyle Program on Web MD, note this links opens a new browser window

Nutrition for Dean Ornish Reversal Program. Includes serving sizes.

Dean Ornish Unofficial Website

Heart Healthy support forum, Unofficial, not related to Heart Friendly

Dean Ornish Program and support group, Princeton, NJ

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People climbing books

Ornish, Dean. Stress, Diet and Your Heart. New American Library, 1991.

Ornish, Dean. Dr. Dean Ornish's Program For Reversing Heart Disease. Ballantine Books, 1996.

Ornish, Dean. Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly. HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

Ornish, Dean. Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish: 150 Easy, Low-Fat, High-Flavor Recipes. HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Ornish, Dean. Love & Survival : The Healing Power of Intimacy and Love. HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.0

Ornish, Dean. Love And Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy. Harper Audio, 1998. Audiocassette

Ornish, Dean. The Healing Power of Intimacy. Sounds True, 1998. Audiocassette

Ornish, Dean. Simple Choices, Powerful Changes. Sounds True, 1998. Audiocassette

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I need to note that since beginning the Ornish Diet for Heart Disease Reversal, The over all cholesterol level has dropped from 285 to 109. This was the only modification at that time. We had simply run out of things to try and medications to use. There had been no medication changes since Spring 2004. In Aug 2004. We began the Ornish Diet for Reversal.
The Cholesterol test in March of 2005 showed 109 as the cholesterol level.