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The Ornish Diet has been named the “#1 Best Heart-Healthy Diet” by U.S. News & World Report for seven consecutive years!
From the author of the landmark bestseller Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease comes an empowering new program that enables you to customize a healthy way of eating and living based on your own desires, needs, and genetic predispositions.
Dr. Dean Ornish revolutionized medicine by directing clinical research proving–for the first time–that heart disease and early-stage prostate cancer may be stopped or even reversed by his program of comprehensive lifestyle changes, without drugs or surgery. His newest research was the first to show that changing your lifestyle changes your genes in men with prostate cancer–“turning on” disease-preventing genes, and “turning off” genes that promote breast cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses, and in only three months. This study documented, also for the first time, that these lifestyle changes may significantly increase an enzyme that lengthens telomeres–the ends of your chromosomes that control how long you live. As your telomeres get longer, your life gets longer. Your genes are not your fate.
The Spectrum features one hundred easy-to-prepare, delicious recipes from award-winning chef Art Smith. Whether you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, reverse a major disease, or find a sustainable, joyful lifestyle, The Spectrum can make a powerful difference in your health and well-being.

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Useful approach, important information nearly unreadable

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Turnathought
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2011-09-19
Over the past decades, It has become obvious, that regardless of one's specific health complaint or goals, eating predominatly fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains is the correct diet. This leaves authors on this topic treading reduntantly.
However, science does deliver new studies in this field continuously and Dr. Ornish reports on how these reinforce the conclusions, and on some of his own investigations that he admits still need a proper scientific methodology applied.
Like the myriad of "how to do business" books a unique perspective on the topic is thematic enough to publish, and the approach here is quite useful. Instead of a dogmatic adherence to the correct way of eating, a means of emphasis is suggested. The reader is encouraged to move toward the most healthful way of eating, as they need or desire, along a "Spectrum" of choices.
Foods are grouped into five catagories along this spectrum and these are detailed over pages of charts that are nearly unreadable in this ebook edition.
Some of the food placements seem to reflect Dr. Ornish's preferences. Chocolate, which he begins his book with in a demonstration of his liberal approach, is listed in group 2 (second best) with a note that essentially says "in small amounts." Of course, "everything in moderation" is the essential approach extended in this book. Potatoes, with a high glycemic impact, are in group 1 (best) with no such admonishment. Sweet poatoes are a grain!
With great effort the crucial charts can be perused (double tap on each one and then expand the image in the new window, but the quality is very very poor and this helps but a little, tap done when finished and move on to the next chart, very tedious) and one can evaluate how healthful they are currently eating and choices for improvement. There are dozens of other foods I would like to have a group number for.
Ultimately, as the charts illustrate, what is the best diet for us huminoids? No real surprise there.