Key Takeaways:

• Advocates a very low-fat, high-fiber diet built around whole plant foods and regular exercise as a means to prevent and reverse heart disease.
• Presents case reports and program results suggesting that coronary risk factors—and sometimes symptoms—can be dramatically improved with lifestyle alone.
• Challenges the inevitability of heart disease and questions heavy reliance on surgery and drugs for cardiovascular care.
• Helps institutionalize diet- and exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation, influencing later programs like Ornish and Esselstyn.