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Eat More Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly |
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Eat More Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635 EAN: 9780060925451 ISBN: 0060925450 Label: Harper Perennial Languages: Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 425 Publication Date: 1994-08 Publisher: Harper Perennial Studio: Harper Perennial Editorial Review: Product Description: Eat more, weigh less? How is this possible? Because as this groundbreaking work clearly shows, it's not just how much you eat, it's primarily what you eat. Most diets rely on small portion sizes to reduce calories sufficiently. You feel hungry and deprived. Dr. Ornish's revolutionary program takes a new approach, one scientifically based on the type of food rather than the amount of food. Abundance rather than hunger and deprivation. So you can eat more frequently, eat a greater quantity of food--and still lose weight and keep it off. Simply. Safely. Easily. With 250 delicious low-fat recipes by some of the country's most celebrated chefs. Dr. Ornish's program is a medically proven approach that can help you improve your health and well-being, not just lose weight. It's also about learning how to begin healing emotional pain, loneliness, and isolation in your fife, providing nourishment not only for your body but also for your soul. His program has given millions of people new hope and new choices. Amazon.com Review: Ingeniously disguised as a weight-loss manual, this bestselling guide to preventing--and in some cases, reversing--heart disease through diet, exercise, and soul nourishing comes from renowned cardiologist Dr. Dean Ornish, the first doctor to prove that there are alternatives to surgery for clearing clogged arteries--namely, diet, exercise, and stress management. Citing his own published research findings, Ornish concludes that eating a vegetarian diet with only 10 percent of the total daily calories from fat is the first step to healthier, happier living. The other key elements--moderate exercise, fostering social support, and reconnecting with the self--take more time and care. For these, Ornish offers about 75 pages of encouraging words, again backed by numerous research findings and his personal experiences. About 250 gourmet recipes from two dozen famous chefs help ease the blow to those who view becoming vegetarian as a dramatic lifestyle change. The good news is, entrées like Polenta Alla Veneziana and Tofu Gumbo will surely tickle the taste buds; the bad news is, the sheer number of ingredients and lengthy prep time required for most recipes could send readers running back to their favorite fast-food joints. Plenty of cooking methods, tips, and food descriptions help demystify the recipes; Ornish also provides a comprehensive nutritional analysis of common foods as well as for each dish. But the great strength of Eat More, Weigh Less is in Ornish's opening sections, where he builds a solid case for curbing fat, tossing out the meat and dairy, and fostering mental and emotional happiness. --Liane Thomas Accessories: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Dumb Title, Great BookIf this book had not come highly recommended by a good friend, I would have never removed it from the shelf. It was the choice to eat healthier that I was looking for, and not the stringent, salt-free, fat-free recipes Ornish touts through the pages. Still, as I read, I was satisfied that the Life Choice program was worth a try. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is Ornish's "research made readable" complete with testimonies (of former meat eating high colesterol ingesting fatties) and trial and error stories. The second half of the book is an assortment of recipes from world-renown chefs, most incredibly delicious. Ornish is not only a doctor, but a realist. If the recipes you have for salt-free cooking are not beautiful and awaken your mouth to new flavors, the whole thing is not worth the effort. It introduces a way of living and cooking that elevates preparation in the kitchen and stocking your shelves with new ingredients (ever hear of Agar-agar?). In the end, I can say the well-bound paperback has endured the spills and fingerprints and mess of a dearly-loved cook book. I also think that Ornish (whose spiritual beliefs are not at all like my own) is a wonderful writer and someone we can all learn from. Rating:  - Unavailable!The book had been ordered, the money sent, then sent back. The book was not available... Rating:  - Reasonable concept, inedible recipesThe general concept behind this book is probably sound but one needs to adapt the concept to your personal lifestyle. While I'm no expert on diets, though I have managed to come up with a system that works for me, I have learned that for a diet to work you have to be able to stay on it forever. It needs to be a reasonable modification of habits and not just some strange 4 week plan. That being said, some of the recipes in this book would make Hannibal Lecter throw up. So far I've carefully tried about a dozen and I have to say only a few even come up to mediocre. The Vegetable Gumbo on page 238 looks very much like the bottom of a swamp but without the flavor. Surprisingly this recipe has most of my favorite vegetables in it which begs the question as to why it's so ghastly. On page 237 you'll find what purports to be Sweet and Sour Stuffed Cabbage. Arguably one of my favorite dinners. First of all 1 cup of brown sugar makes this taste more like candied cabbage than sweet and sour. Even with adding more lemon juice this just doesn't work. These are not recipes to serve to guests unless you're the cook for a maximum security prison, however, if you take your own favorite recipes and substitute vegetables for meat, you might be able to accomplish the idea. Rating: - Eat More, Weigh LessI have not read this book yet, but am very excited to check it out and begin working on a plan of action. Thank you!
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