Dean Ornish, MD, is the founder, president, and director of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California where he holds the Safeway Chair. For the past 28 years, Dr. Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery.
The core components of the Dr. Dean Ornish Lifestyle Modification Program as elucidated on the PMRI website here, are as follows: (1) a very low-fat, whole foods diet, (2) moderate aerobic exercise, (3) stress management techniques, and (4) support groups.
Visit this page for a list of the PMRI’s program sites as well as to read up the details of the program.
Obviously then, alternate methods of treatment are being advocated by mainstream medical practitioners too. So it is no wonder that nowadays many physicians perceive meditation, an immensely useful stress-reducing tool as a key element of an integrated health program aimed at an individual’s overall well-being.
WebMD has this interesting article on the benefits of meditation as elucidated by Dr Dean Ornish, or more specifically in response to a query, Can Meditation Help Lower My Cholesterol?
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