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than 80% of people on high blood pressure medications lowered their
blood pressure enough to become medication-free.
Of 268 people entering the Pritikin
Longevity Center on medications for hypertension, 83% lowered their
blood pressure to normal levels and were able to leave the resort
medication-free.
(Journal of Cardiac Rehabilitation, 3: 839, 1983. See
also Circulation, 106: 2530, 2002)
In just two weeks, the Pritikin Program can ease blood pressure
such that a great majority of men and women who enter the Pritikin
Longevity Center on hypertensive medication no longer need it upon
graduation. The key components of the Pritikin Program--exercising,
limiting fat and salt intake, drinking less alcohol, and eating
more fruits and vegetables--are without question the ideal lifestyle
plan to control high blood pressure.
ePerspective Special Report
Hypertension: Symptoms, Treatment and Results
Just ask graduate Monty Preiser. A few years ago, the blood pressure
of this trial attorney from Florida was an alarming 240/160. Only
44 years old, scared, agonizingly aware that he could lose his
life and all who were dear to him, he called his father, a long-time
alumnus of the Pritikin Longevity Center, and said, "Dad,
I'm on my way to Pritikin."
Within one day, he was hooked. "I planned on staying two
weeks and ended up staying three. I never had so much fun. I loved
everything--the gym, the cooking classes, the staff. The stress
management workshops were terrific; the personal time in the pool,
phenomenal. I even looked forward to the soups in the middle of
the day!"
More fun, yet, was watching both weight and blood pressure plunge.
It's been almost five years since Monty began his healthy new life.
He's 52 pounds lighter, and his blood pressure is well under control. "I
can't even begin to tell you what Pritikin has meant for me. People
tell me I look 35 years old, and I feel 30. I truly do."
The Pritikin Longevity Center may be your best assurance that
you, too, can start life anew--healthy, strong, free of soaring
blood pressure numbers, and quite possibly, free for the rest of
your life of the crippling strokes and heart problems that so often
disable those with high blood pressure.
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