Diet, Exercise on BP, Insulin, Oxidative Stress, NO Availability
Need I say more? Obviously this wasn’t sponsored by the makers of Lipitor or Atenolol. 30-45 mins exercise per day and dietary modifications for 3 weeks. 3 weeks!!! That’s all it took to affect these markers. And yet, recommendations such as these are low on the list of what most patients get. I remember a 19-year old patient who found out she had cholesterol in the 300′s and triglerides in the upper 400′s. A CARDIOLOGIST told her to just eat a low fat diet. She was. Gummi bears, pop, twizzlers….Roberts et al., 10.1161/01.CIR.0000040584.91836.0D –