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Learn to COOK - Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly
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Manufacturer: HarperTorch
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5635
EAN: 9780061096273
ISBN: 006109627X
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Publisher: HarperTorch
Release Date: 1997-02-24
Studio: HarperTorch
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The phenomenal New York Times bestseller -- now revised and updated for a new century. 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 life, providing nourishment not only for your body but also for your soul. His program has given millions of people new hope and new choices.
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Summary: Eat more, Weigh Less
Comment: Well written easy to understand and it is working for me. A last a diet plan that does not require anything other than making choices.
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Summary: A bit drastic? Not really.
Comment: I'm always surprised to find people suggesting a healthy, plant-based diet is "a bit drastic" -- personally I find bypass surgery or chemotherapy to be a bit drastic. Eating healthy is natural and normal, or should be, it's just that most of us have gotten used to the unhealthy foods that makeup the standard American diet, so it only seems like eating healthy is drastic. You really do retrain your taste buds in a relatively short time. It was so much easier to switch than I ever thought it would be. I'm an American living in Australia, and I've been vegan for nearly a year and a half now -- I would never go back!
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Summary: Sadly Disapointed
Comment: I was actually VERY excited to see this book at a discount bookstore the other day since I've just started a new diet and I know its a popular book. When I started reading, I enjoyed it and was inspired by his seemingly well done research.
I started with the back and the recipes so I could get more healthy dinner ideas. Personally, I liked many of the recipe ideas. I love to cook and personally have no issues finding saffron or other unusual ingredients but I should warn potential buyers that if you don't have a high-end budget and/or a fancy foods market near you, it could be hard to locate some items in the recipes. By the end of this section, it started to go downhill though. Cause I realized that there are NO meat recipes. Its all vegetarian.
Besides my personal disinterest in a vegetarian diet for food reasons, I'm concerned about how he overlooks the nutritive value of some foods and some of his claims.
- He seems to feel that iron is ONLY bad, which is not true! I'm prone to anemia, and if someone else was too, I would think this diet would set them up for it.
- He ignores Omega-3's that you can get through fish which have many beneficial effects.
- He ignores that certain TYPES of fat have been shown to help people lose weight by feeling fuller and more satisfied [fish, nuts, avocados.]
- Where are you going to get your Vitamin B12?
I think this diet could definitely work for some people, but overall I feel its much more extreme than it needs to be. People have can have extreme diet changes and weight loss success with eating a bit more fat from quality sources such as nuts and fish.
Interestingly, he talks about how people used to eat small amounts of meat and had less health problems, so why can't we do that now? Its certainly much more well rounded and attainable...
Bottom line: If you want a good book to tell you how to eat a vegetarian diet, this is a great one and has good recipes, but talk to your doctor to make sure you are getting all the nutrients you need.
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Summary: Fixed my gallbladder dysfunction
Comment: I had my gallbladder removed and still had spasms and cramps in my right side after it was removed (bile ducts). Following the Ornish Program (except I cut out dairy altogether) has completely fixed the problem and I no longer have spasms and cramps in my right side. This book, and simply changing my diet, saved me from having to take medication the rest of my life (I was 27 when my gallbladder was removed). The other benefits are that I lost weight (BMI = 19) and my skin looks absolutely amazing!
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Summary: Caution -- Too Little Fat Causes Gallstones
Comment: I thought I'd done sufficient research when I went on this diet. In fact, Ornish's theories have been proven wrong. When you don't eat a moderate amount of healthy fats (olive oil, EFA's, etc.), the bile produced by your liver sits in your gall bladder instead of being used to digest fats. It becomes increasingly concentrated, until the cholesterol in the bile forms into...gallstones. This = extremely painful attacks and either surgery or very intense cleansing diets. Ornish's diet does NOT include enough fats; it is too extreme and based on faulty assumptions. Watch out! Unfortunately, I had to have my gall bladder removed because I meticulously followed his diet, only to learn later that this was a common experience for many people. Save yourself the agony of gallstones and research other diets; I have had much better success with Jorge Cruise's diet plan, but I imagine there are other good ones, too.
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