What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension
Chapter One
The Symptomless Disease
A woman lies dead in her hospital bed. The only sound in the room is
the ominous whine of a heart monitor, which proclaims to one and all
that her heart has, at last, ceased functioning. A
fifty-six-year-old man walks briskly down a busy avenue on his way
to work. Suddenly his face contorts with pain. He drops his
briefcase, clutches his head in agony, and is dead before he hits
the ground.
An elderly woman lies in a hospital bed, undergoing kidney dialysis.
These thrice-weekly treatments leave her exhausted, but with-out
them she would die.
A businessman and father of three sits in an easy chair and sighs as
he gazes out the window. He has given up the golfing he loved so
much because, with his heart failing, he just hasn't got the energy
to play anymore. That's true even if he spends 95 percent of his
time in a golf cart.
Although each of these people suffered from a distinctly different
disease, in the end they all died of the same underlyi ... read full excerpt from What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypertension: The Revolutionary Nutrition and Lifestyle Program to Help Fight High Blood Pressure ebook
