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The Pritikin Edge: 10 Essential Ingredients for a Long and Delicious Life
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Simon & Schuster |
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Product Description
We Americans may reside in the greatest nation on earth, but our lifestyle is killing us. Onequarter of us still smoke, two-thirds of us are fat, three-quarters of us don't exercise, and stress and depression are ubiquitous. We wolf down oversize portions of fast food in minutes and boast of not having taken a vacation in years. We get misinformation like "olive oil is healthy" but then get fatter because drizzling three tablespoons of oil on a salad adds as many calories as two scoops of premium ice cream. Despite all our advances in drugs and surgery, obesity and the diseases it causes have shortened life expectancy; this is the first time in history that children can expect to die younger than their parents.The Pritikin Program was the first comprehensive lifestyle program in America, and after fifty years on the cutting edge of lifestyle science, it is still the longest-running, most successful program for reversing many of modern society's diseases, including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. What sets Pritikin apart from the myriad of other diets is that its program is based on real science. Pritikin doesn't make random claims or base advice on half-truths or fads; Pritikin's effectiveness has been proven and documented in more than 110 scientific studies. You've picked up this book because you want to change your lifestyle, improve your health, and live longer, and with the program in these pages, you can start reversing the effects of years of unhealthy living today. Here you'll find the ten simple lifestyle ingredients that will change your life. Stick with them and you'll lose weight without feeling hungry, your energy will surge, and you will look and feel healthier and stronger than you have in years. Included are more than 75 recipes for flavorful and healthful dishes, detailed meal plans, and tips for dining out healthfully and happily. You'll learn what kinds of physical activities are most effective and how to make the most of your time on the road or in the gym. You'll get sets of simple exercises you can do anywhere that will make you strong, help you shed fat, and keep you toned. The real science of lifestyle and heart health, from fat molecules to heart attacks, is described in accessible terms, and popular diet myths are debunked. You'll find out why lowcarbohydrate or other fad diets won't help you lose weight in the long run and why they won't improve your overall health. The Pritikin Edge gives you the real facts so you can take control of your health and add years to your life and quality to your years. Once you begin living with these principles, you'll wonder how you ever lived any other way. |
Customers Reviews
2008-11-22
You must read this book before going on any medications
The Pritikin Edge is a wonderful book. It is filled with a number of great tips that will teach you how to live a healthier lifestyle. Unlike many health books that require you to go on specific diets or exercise on specific equiptment, the Pritikin Edge continues to do what the Pritikin program has done for nearly 50 years, educate! Reading this book will enlighten you and provide you with tools to jump start your healthy lifestyle program by learning how to cope with stress, eat a healthy diet, and engage in appropriate exercise for overall well being. Nothing compares to two weeks at the Pritikin Center in Miami, but if you cant make it there, this is the next best thing. After reading this book you will certainly be hungry, but not for more food,only more knowlege and health tips. I read the Pritikin Principle and loved that book too. I have found more tips on their web site. This book is well worth the minimal time and effort to read the book. Buy it used or new here on amazon. Its a small price to pay in comparison to that bypass procedure! Good luck in your search for health.The Pritikin Edge: 10 Essential Ingredients for a Long and Delicious Life
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2008-11-16
Buy this book if you care about yourself and your loved ones
The Pritikin Edge is not a fad diet book. It is a book about living a healthier life through nutritious, low-fat foods, moderate exercise and stress reduction. The authors build upon more than three decades of scientific research and experience at the Pritikin Longevity Center. But they have not written a ponderous nutrition textbook. Instead, the authors offer a practical, easy-to-read (though science-based) method of healthy living with an emphasis on promoting heart health. This book is for readers of all walks of life who very simply seek a healthier lifestyle. The Pritikin Edge centers on choosing the right foods and offers targeted exercises and recipes from the Pritikin Longevity Center. I recommend a copy for yourself and some extra copies as holiday or birthday gifts for family and friends. Don't postpone taking care of yourself any longer.
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2008-11-12
Everything you need to know to get back YOUR edge
The Pritikin Edge is a concise, comprehensive and easy to digest nutritional, exercise, and life-style program that will lead you from lethargy to energy and from poor health to good health. You will also learn the importance of taking care of your mind in taking care of your body. If you like yourself, give yourself a gift. Buy a few for people you love as well. Pritikin is a way of life, not a fad, and we all need a permanent, science-based, practical way to stay healthy and feel good.
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2008-11-11
Nothing tastes as good as "thin" feels, so the expression goes.
Well, life "tastes" the best--you can just enjoy it, be here for yourself, for others and if you're reading this, you probably are wanting to "save" yourself or other loved ones. Don't get into fear--the diet, let alone going to Pritikin, is not torture and deprivation, you'll not starve at all, you'll fill yourself up on people nourishment and fun! You'll laugh, you'll smile, you'll entertain and tell stories and you'll discover that miracles can happen, your health can be improved or restored. You'll regain your confidence in yourself, you'll walk tall. You'll be back in control and in charge but you won't have to be some dictator to all your rebellious voices so much any more, those voices that say to you that you deserve all the fatty meals, ice cream and cookies or just the normal toxic diet that most Americans eat every day of their lives, the wonderful meals your mother cooked for you (sorry to the well intended moms out there, don't think they had Pritikin in those days). Those voices, to the contrary, will become your buddies for they care about you in that strange manner and ways they've interacted with you over the years. I've been to "Pritikin" ten times over the years. I owe my life to these folks, the principles. Am not "fixed" or "perfect," in fact, I keep going back for a tune up and reinforcement. Yet, I have no doubt that my life has been greatly extended and same with countless others. I have witnessed this, seen so many times with my eyes, heard with my ears the transformations that Pritikin has made in the lives of so many. It is not torture, being there is fun. Learning is fun. Well, the "diet" is not a diet, it is an education, learning to start a new lifestyle within what you already have. Trust me, you'll like it. The staff is great and, I'd have to say, the guests keep me coming back. They are usually somewhat older and sort-of-like-me are either there because they've hit somewhere close to their bottom (and want to live!) or just because they are now so healthy thanks to Pritikin that they keep coming back--it's a great vacation (believe it or not--consider believing it tho) there. Buy this book. And, better yet, buy the experience (and the book). Hopefully, I'll see you there at Pritikin and by the way, I'm single, and available,lol, so hope to see you there and we'll dance!
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2008-10-29
Taking it with me everywhere I go...
I'm reading the Pritikin Edge with my highlighter. There are many nuggets of gold that I will want to refer to again and again. This book is fast becoming my new best friend and I am grateful for the information that is found between the covers. Other people talk about diets - but Pritikin is going to help me with a lifestyle change.
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Find Out About The Dangers Associated With Dieting Dieting should have sensible basis otherwise it may do nothing but undermine and ruin your health. There are some dangers associated with dieting.
Danger 1 - on my own
The habit always to rely upon oneself is not the appropriate tactics in dieting. Fattiness like any other diseases should be treated under the strict doctor’s control. Every one is unique and needs certain and specific approach. Someone may be stout but have a good health someone may have few “extra kilos” which will intermix with serious diseases. So you should be completely aware of your current state. Work, life style, surroundings, living conditions and even climate should be taken in account when choosing a diet.
Danger 2 - on the buckwheat
There are several dieting myths: you should eat meat, you should eat once or twice a day, it’s useful to eat only buckwheat or apple pines for example. Each product is wholesome for sure but only in the combination with other useful products. And if you decided to keep to a “one-side” diet you merely deprive yourself of necessary and vital elements.
The greatest problems may cause incredible protein decrease, especially animal protein which can not be substituted by soy or legumes protein. Animal protein is the base for ferments and hormones production. In case you reduce protein consumption the reproductive function gets worse and the blood formula changes.
Another danger is the lack of calcium which we usually get of the diary products. This element is absolutely necessary especially for the young organism which bones are still in the process of formation.
The variety of food is the main point of the right diet. Remember you may eat everything but with the sense of measure. Fish, vegetables and fruits are irreplaceable products and should “find place” in your diet however.
Danger 3 – only diet
If you really want to loose weight and not to regain it you’d better thing about dieting and physical loading as separate things but work out the plan of healthy life style. It may include the food we eat, the way we spend our free time, sleep and whatever. The main tendency today is square meals and minimum of physical exercise. The quantity of energy we receive should not exceed the quantity we consume.
The simplest recommendations are to eat divisionally – every 3 or 4 hours in little quantities, not to eat before going to bed.
Danger 4- food is my best friend
The other stumbling block is to compensate stress depression by eating sweets and chocolates. Some times in such situations a person may eat even when he is not hungry.
Remember everything is in your own hands. |
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