The first diet

Originally Posted – 01/12/2004 : 11:15:47 AM to our bulletin board
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Last Friday, I had an inteview with Gabe Mirkin, MD. He is the author of the Healthy Heart Miracle. The book promotes diet and exercise as the solution to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease. He says that his [...]

At the doctors office

Originally Posted – 01/10/2004 : 08:58:17 AM to our bulletin board
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My great doctor moved, so I went to see a new doctor here in Denver. He just moved over from Emergency medicine at the local university. I tell him that I am there to talk about my blood pressure.
He takes it – EEEK [...]

The Journey begins

Originally posted 1/10/04 on the bulletin board
It’s kind of a long series of events. My father always had “white coat” syndrome. He diligently took his blood pressure daily (130/80) to ensure that his blood pressure was only high at the doctor’s office. I thought that my increasingly high blood pressure was the [...]