Customer Reviews

Eat to Beat High Blood Pressure

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My wife and I have found a lot of tasty recipes from this book, even though one of us is a picky eater. We've put a lot of bookmarks in this after finding recipes we like. Instructions could be written a little clearer, but a careful read will solve that.

Recipes use commonly-available items (in the USA) and standard methods. No great skills are needed here.

So far we've tried 3 of the recipes. My husband has high blood pressure so we are working on our eating, controlling the amount of sodium in his diet, excercise and better sleep. This is a fun cookbook with lots of recipes, I look forward to trying more!

Bought this book for my mom who has very high blood pressure. She has not only eaten healthier to reduce her blood pressure, but she also enjoyed trying the new recipes.

I'm looking for plain and simple recipes to help in lowering blood pressure. All the recipes in this book were fancier than we eat. The book is just OK

We checked this book out of the library. After one renewal, we decided it was a keeper. We purchased one copy for ourselves and one for a friend.

The format is reasonable - the recipes are easy to understand and the pictures are quite good. More importantly the recipes are very good. If you have problems with high blood pressure or concerns about your diet - this is an excellent book. Food that is good for you doesn't have to taste bad.

My husband, who is a very active soccer player and NOT overweight, was diagnosed with very high blood pressure (170/110) at the very young age of 30 that we later discovered was genetic. Without being aware of how to use correct combinations in a DASH-Plus diet, we tried eliminating sodium and eating healthier but it still was not at a safe level, therefore, we had no choice but to start medication. This cookbook has been a Godsend, as my cooking skills without a cookbook leave much to be desired. I use this on a daily basis, flag the pages of food I m going to cook and type all the ingredients I will need in a word document and away I go to the grocery store. I am also making these recipes nearly 100% organic a well. Luckily, we have a local co-op that carries all organic food, finding nearly all the ingredients there is not an issue for me. Every once in a while I will have difficulty finding an ingredient, but it is never something that can't be skipped or substituted. In my personal opinion, if you are going to try to eat this healthy, why allow pesticides to be part of your diet? I love that we are eating something new and different everyday, we never get bored with this cookbook. The recipes are very flavorful and they incorporate many seasonings to hide the lack of sodium. This cookbook has broadened my cooking skills and exposed me to all kinds of new ingredients I have never eaten before. Many of the recipes call for leek, watercress, quinoa, bulgur, sage, cumin, coriander, etc. We are also starting to incorporate drinking fresh organic juicing in addition to this diet; I hope someday he can get off medication for good! I highly recommend it to anyone with high blood pressure.

This book with the Dash diet is good according to it menus not only for bloos pressure but also for high cholesterol.
Also check out Dr. Gott for helpful health hints.
Respectfully
bert

We tried to prepare several receipts. Tasts are fantastic and easy to cook. I highly reccomend to everybody.... and what could be the most important: my blood pressure is really decreasing day by day... started from 140/90 and today I measured 117/75... after 4-5 weeks... Unbelievable...

This book has excellent recipes. Many photos of the dishes are enclosed, as well as easy to follow directions. An excellent value.

I found out that my blood pressure is borderline so I decided to start watching my sodium intake. The recipes in this book looks fancy however they are pretty easy to make. The recipes are separated in categories, meat, seafood, poultry and vegetarian. (see pics) At the bottom of each page/recipes the book tells you how much sodium each recipe contains.(see pics) To be honest I have tried several recipes from this book and they taste so good it is hard to believe that they are low in sodium. I will try these out for a month and see if my there is any change to my blood pressure.