Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure

This book is good but the only draw back is that there was nothing in there that I didnt know.

Let me begin by stating that the amount of knowledge that you already have regarding high blood pressure will greatly affect how much you gain from reading this book. Over half of this book covers very basic information regarding blood pressure; For example, what is blood pressure, what is a normal blood pressure reading, the difference between high blood pressure and hypertension, the co-relation between sodium consumption and blood pressure, etc. If you don't have some or any of the information regarding these topics, then you will surely gain alot of knowledge and will really enjoy reading this book. If you know most or all of these topics already, then you will gain nothing from over half of the book. Now, the other half of the book centers around concrete examples on how you can lower your blood pressure, using a three step approach. The three-step approach, as you would imagine, is composed of stress management, diet, and exercise. I personally gained a world of knowledge on the stress management section, since I already had alot of the knowledge regarding how diet and exercise affect blood pressure. Although this review might sound like I didn't like this book, that is not the case. I simply had done alot of research on my own, and found alot of the information that I already knew in this book. However, I did encounter plenty of information that will help me to continue to keep my blood pressure at regular levels. I especially reccommend this book for anyone that has recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure, especially as an initial research tool.

This is an easily read guide to most of the basics on controlling blood pressure. In addition it has 34 pages of interesting healthy recipes. I recommend this book.