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Printing Date: January 01, 2001
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Here, in the bestselling tradition of Reversing Heart Disease, Dr. Dean Ornish presents a scientifically validated lifestyle and eating plan that takes off unwanted weight, reduces the risk of heart disease, and—best of all—leaves you feeling full and satisfied, simply by cutting back dietry fat to 10% of the total calories you eat. A New York Times hardcover bestseller and a Publishing houses Weekly audio bestseller.
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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 very 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 very 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
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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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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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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 sucess 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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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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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 sucess with Jorge Cruise's diet plan, but I imagine there are other good ones, too.
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