The Mediterranean Heart Diet: How It Works and How to Reap the Health Benefits, with Recipes to Get You Started

The Mediterranean Heart Diet: How It Works and How to Reap the Health Benefits, with Recipes to Get You Started
All about the Mediterranean Diet, from guiding principles to specific recipes, for people who want to improve their health by improving their eating habits. Most people know that a Mediterranean-style diet is “good for them,” but many lack the information that determines the diet’s success. The Mediterranean Heart Diet does what most doctors who recommend the diet don’t: spells out which foods are “out” and which are “in,” and why.

Doctors recommend a Mediterranean eating style to thousands who are diagnosed each year with heart disease because it is “heart-healthy”-it promotes lower saturated-fat consumption, and helps lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

It is an all-purpose style of eating that also benefits those at risk of developing certain cancers and those with a diabetic condition, because it is high in antioxidant-rich foods and whole grains. The Mediterranean Heart Diet not only provides a full range of satisfying recipes but also covers the science behind the diet’s health benefits. Readers learn to create their own healthful eating plans and establish new habits.

More than 140 delicious recipes are included, from satisfying Lentil and Broccoli Soup to tangy Halibut in Citrus Sauce. All recipes feature nutritional analysis by serving, including food exchanges.

Customer Review: Faulty Information
This is an absolutley “terrible” book. It first tells you what the Mediterranean Diet was many years and and how it is so helpful - THEN it tells you how to make bread with WHITE ALL-PURPOSE BREAD FLOUR. WHAT A STUPID BOOK. Then it goes on to tell you how to update the diet with new technology learned over the last century. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE AUTHOR SHOULD BE DOING = THEY SHOULD BE TELLING YOU WHAT THE DIET “WAS” NOT WHAT THE AUTHOR THINKS IT SHOULD BE. And as an added “insult” they tell you to stop smoking. Do you think the Mediterranean”s “Smoked”. Of course, and they were living longer than anybody on earth. What arrogance.

Customer Review: Great Heart Diet
This is a diet that the average person can live with and lose weight with for the rest of their lives. It isn’t fast but steady, you’re not hungry and you can have veggies and fruits, and pastas, chicken & fish. And occassionaly dessert and red meat. I only wish there were more sample menues or more about portions. I am losing weight at about 2 or 3 lbs. weeks and I love it!

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12-Minute Total-Body Workout
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Customer Review: Moving past my plateu!!
At age 20, I had already been through 3 surgeries due to bowel obstructions and Crohn’s Disease (chronic inflammation of the intestinal lining). Suffering with the disease kept me fairly slim through out my 20’s, but completely inactive. My well known “coke bottle shape” has always looked fine in clothes but, over the years I have lost A LOT of muscle tone and definition. At 30 I had my son, and thankfully, my Crohn’s Disease took a dive…but as a result my weight shot up. I only gained 12 lbs. during my pregnancy with my son, but after having him, I found it difficult to control the amount of food I was eating. 4 years later, I found myself at an all time high of 206 lbs. I went on a reduced carb-calorie counting diet and lost 27 lbs, but was still unhappy with the way my body looked …and I was at a plateau. Even with my 1300-1400 calorie a day diet (I’m 5′7″), and briskly walking 3-4 times a day for 15 min, I couldn’t get anymore weight off. I searched the web for a solution. I came to the realization that I needed to rebuild my muscles to boost my metabolism and reclaim my body shape… without the fat and cellulite. I stumbled across Dr. Vedral’s book while looking for a weight-training program that wouldn’t impact the already limited time in my day and would cut out going to the gym (I hate the gym!). After two weeks of continuing my own diet, following her exercises and cutting my wallks down to 2 a day, I have lost 4.5 lbs! Her program is direct and well spelled out. I wake up a few minutes earlier in the morning to complete the exercises. It does take me a little more than 12 min a day, simply because I find that I need to do some stretching before and after, which she doesn’t really require in this program. My only gripe would be that some of the pictured illustrations are more “cutesy” posed, than the true form that you need to start at, but the written word for the start position clarifies it for you. All and all, I couldn’t be a happier. I can FEEL it working and feel confident that within a few weeks I will SEE results of more muscle tone and definition. All of my muscles have a “good” soreness they haven’t felt in years and it feels great!! Because of the light weights and basic movements I think 12 Minute Total Body Workout is a great book for those who are desiring to boost your personal fitness program, no matter were you’re starting point is. Thanks, Dr. Vedral!! I love this book!!
Customer Review: Narcissistic, simplistic, and shallow
Though this book was published in 1989, its substance was recycled in other forms, spreading the same confusing message. The author is unsettled on the duration of daily workout from 12 minutes, 15 minutes, and then 20 minutes. In this book, the author proposes 7 days a week of weight training. In others, she proposes working out twice a week. She talks about “total body building”, “supercuts”, and “fat burning” without having the slightest clue on the basic physical facts about their scientific origin. Here are some absurd errors you will find in this book: 1) The book claims the “you can shape up in no time if you do not have time to shape up” which is a lie. 2) Page 32, “the trapezius muscle is labeled as the latissimus dorsi. Then on Page 112-113, she describes “shoulder press with dumbbells” as “lateral pulldown” and claims to workout the latissimus dorsii. Thus, she confuses pulling for pushing. Though the book is introduced by a medical doctor (Jude T. Barbea) and written by an author with Ph.D. in English literature, the book completely misrepresents basic weight training teaching. 3) Page 139, “Eggs help raise beneficial HDL, break up cholesterol deposits and carry them away from blood vessels”. So, how many eggs do you need to completely get rid of atherosclerosis????? 4) Page 139, “fibers help eliminate 10% of fat intake since they (fibers) pass through unregistered”. She does not know how the fat is digested in the intestine and assumes that fat elimination is simply “sliding through” with fibers. Here is her list of books that demonstrate the mad zeal of recycling simplistic and misleading information: 1. 12-Minute Total-Body Workout 2. Bone-Building/Body-Shaping Workout: Strength, Health, Beauty, in Just 16 Minutes a Day 3. Bottoms Up! 4. College Dorm Workout 5. Definition: Shape Without Bulk in 15 Minutes a Day 6. Gut Busters: The 15-Minute-A-Day, 12-Week Plan 7. Hard Bodies Express Workout: The Twice-A-Week Fitness Program That Really Work 8. Now or Never: Keep Your Body Young, Fit and Firm with the Weight Training Program That Works Even as You 9. Supercut 10. The Bathing Suit Workout 11. The Fat-Burning Workout: From Fat to Firm in 24 Days 12. Toning for Teens: The 20-Minute Workout that Makes You Look Good and Feel Great! 13. Top Shape: 12 Weeks to Your Ideal Physique 14. Weight Training Made Easy: Transform Your Body in Four Simple Steps When I browsed through similar books that claim to achieve magic fitness results in about 15 minutes or so, I stumbled on a general trend. Whether the author is a man or a woman, those books clearly show narcissistic authors, with simplistic views who claim to lead the world to perfection. All share fond of their bodily outlook, neurotic, and impatient in acquiring knowledge, or adapting to new trends in modern exercise teaching. The simplest rule of staying fit is “simple counting of Calories”. One Calorie per minute worth of work will amount to 60 calories per hour and 1440 Calories per day. If you try to condense that in 15 or 20 minutes, you will need to expend energy at a rate of 72 Calories per minute, which is impossible even by swimming in cold water or cycling at top speed.

The Fast Food Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Great Even If You’re Too Busy to Eat Right
Lose weight eating at McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, and Wendy’s?

Yes, it’s possible—and this book shows you how!

“Dr. Steve Sinatra is one of the top preventive cardiologists in America. . . . In The Fast Food Diet, he shows readers how to eat smarter and more nutritiously at any fast food establishment in America so they will actually become healthier as they lose weight. What a brilliant strategy and practical approach!”
—BARRY SEARS, bestselling author of The Zone

We’re a nation on the go—and we’re gaining weight at alarming levels. Chances are you realize you should lose weight and eat healthier foods, but when you’re hungry and hurried, all too often you choose the drive-through over a healthy home-cooked meal. This breakthrough guide presents a practical, real-world solution that teaches you how to make healthier fast-food choices and save hundreds of calories per meal—without giving up the delicious taste and convenience of fast foods.

In addition to tips for dining guilt-free at all types of fast-food restaurants, The Fast Food Diet includes:

• A Six-Week Fast-Food Diet Eating Plan that lets you choose among 150 meal selections for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks from more than fifty of the most popular fast-food chains
• Valuable tips for business travelers, holiday revelers, and kids who are fast-food junkies
• Advice on eating well at food courts, sit-down restaurants, airports, and convenience stores
• Recipes for nutritious, home-cooked meals you can prepare in 15 minutes or less

If you cut just 500 calories from your meals every day, you’ll lose a pound a week. That’s 50 pounds a year—and The Fast Food Diet makes it easy.
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Customer Review: An eye opener!
This is a great book for someone like me who doesn’t like to cook. It has a lot of the same cardiac health information available in other books and resources - decrease transfats and simple sugars, exercise, etc….nothing new on that front. But I do eat out quite often or raid the vending machine — that’s where the real eye popping information was in my opinion. One of my favorite fast food “healthy choices” was a sandwich that turns out to contain 720 calories!!!!! Nearly 1/2 of my alotted total caloric intake for the day - I had no idea! I think anyone with children, who resorts to fast food should read this book as well - just yesterday the little girl next door told me that she had pop and french fries and chicken nuggets for lunch…would her mom have made the same choices if she knew the nutritional content of that menu? I finished the book feeling much more positive about the health benefits that can be achieved without constantly being in the kitchen chopping and measuring.
Customer Review: Just okay
Starts off with common sense information and many things we’ve heard before. Talks about the author’s decision to accept need to adjust food recommendations to fit within people’s busy schedules. Midway through book gets into particulars about specific fast food establishments and selection choices. I wish it were more comprehensive and a little better organized. But suggestions are helpful and I use them all the time.

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