Over the last 15 years, medicine has gone through a revolutionary change. The medical dictum was that nutrition and lifestyle made no contribution to chronic disease. Medicine has done a complete turn-around and has started a war against bad lifestyle habits like smoking, fat consumption, sedentary behavior, etc. Modern medicine has accepted its responsibility to direct the lifestyles of people toward health. Possibly no movement other than Orthomolecular medicine was shouting like a voice in the wilderness before the rest of the profession identified the important role of nutrition. Although Orthomolecular physicians and scientists first touted the important role of nutrition in mental health, mental health is actually now known to be the foundation for all health. Indirectly, and often directly, Orthomolecular physicians and scientists have heralded the way for the complete nutrition revolution in the United States. This nutritional revolution is most evident in the transformation of the American doctor's treatment of hypertension. More than any other illness, it is now accepted by mainstream medicine that nutritional and dietary factors and therapies should be utilized by physicians in treating hypertension. It is fitting, therefore, to bring this review to the readership which helped begin the revolution that is now transforming all aspects of American health.

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