Great Podcast! - and another story

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for alerting us to this podcast - really great - and I guess now

you too are

on the way to improving your health, eh?

 

Not the same thing, but my dh has had high bloodpressure - very high - for some

26

years and has had to be medicated for it, of course. Neither of us has problems

with

cholesterol or triglycerides, and my own bloodpressure is around 90 over 65,

give or take

5. Nevertheless, with diabetes in my family, I think I have to watch diet pretty

carefully. We

were both already vegans on a low-fat, pretty health-conscious diet, but didn't

go as far

as some think is needed to be healthy.

 

So to try things out, in January we went on a nearly fat-free, nearly salt-free

diet with no

processed foods and no white grains, etc., increasing our consumption of

vegetables and

adding in more raw food than usual for us. Ornish, McDougall and Barnard would

approve.

This was for my dh's bloodpressure. It was weird for the first couple of weeks,

then a cinch

after that. True.

 

As of this last week, I'm ready to report back to the group. In February my dh's

bloodpressure had dropped so that his dr halved his meds, from 10 mg dose of his

meds

to 5 mg. It continued to drop, so that in March he was put on a 2.5 mg dose. It

continued

to drop. It was low enough the last time he went (90 over 62) that the dr took

him off his

meds altogether. First time in 26 years! And me? Oh I lost the 10 kg and a bit

more and

am looking to drop a couple more before summer's over

 

So these dietary guidelines are good for a lot of things - including the general

sense of

wellbeing, which has improved for both of us!

 

Best love, Pat