Diabetes, Hypertension, and High Cholesterol Dietary Self-Cure

Author: Yu Kang
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: According to the report from the Ministry of Health, China has 160 million patients with hypertension, 160 million with abnormal blood lipids, 200 million overweight individuals, 60 million obese individuals, and 20 million diabetes patients. More alarmingly, thousands of new young patients with "three high" conditions are added daily. In 2004, among patients visiting cardiology departments in major hospitals in Beijing, 25% had both hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and coronary heart disease. Among diabetes patients, less than 10% had pure diabetes, 40% had hypertension or hyperlipidemia combined, and 50% had both hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Faced with such a vast number of patients, relying solely on medicine is not only costly but also clearly insufficient. Scientific and reasonable dietary habits are the most effective and practical solution. Because for lifestyle diseases like "three high" conditions, dietary therapy can play a 47% effective role in prevention and treatment. As the World Health Organization has pointed out: medicine accounts for only 8% of health, while a reasonable diet accounts for 13%. This book takes a comprehensive approach to the joint prevention and treatment of three diseases and meticulously designs dietary self-treatment plans for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, even specifying detailed meal arrangements for every morning, noon, and evening. It helps a wide range of patients solve practical problems and benefits themselves and their families.