DR. DEAN ORNISH'S PROGRAM
In an age when medical science was combating heart disease with costly high-
tech interventions, American physician Dean Ornish was something of a throwback.
His simple, inexpensive program of lifestyle changes - which featured a low-fat,
primarily vegetarian diet, moderate aerobic exercise, and daily stress management -
contrasted sharply with such potentially risky treatments as bypass surgery,
angioplasty, and cholesterol-lowering medication. The holistic regimen that Ornish
recommended appeared not only to halt the progress of atherosclerosis - the
buildup of fatty substances within the arteries - but actually to reverse it. Despite his
reluctance to be labeled a guru, Ornish continued to gain enthusiastic converts
following the publication in 1990 of his best-selling second book,
Dr. Dean Ornish's
Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to
Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery. Later highlights for Ornish
included the publication of a third book,
Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's
Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly, an invitation
to the White House in 1993; and the announcement in August of the same year that
Mutual of Omaha, an insurance company, would reimburse policyholders for the cost
of participation in the program - the first time a major insurer had agreed to cover an
"alternative" treatment for heart disease.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) to fight; to struggle (against)
b) interfering to change something
c) doctor
d) (for an idea or attitude) like something that
existed in the past
e) not extreme; neither large nor small
f) conflict with; be different from
g) (in medicine) dealing with the body as a whole
unit, as opposed to individual parts
h) a set of rules about food and exercise to stay
healthy
i) stop
j) a gradual increase in the amount of something
k) unwillingness to do something
I) be given a descriptive name made up of a
word, phrase or short description
m) a leader highly regarded by a group, derived
from the name of Indian religious leaders
n) a person who has changed from one way of
thinking or religion to another
o) change something so that it has the opposite
effect to the one it had before
p) a very important, interesting, or outstanding
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