Heal Your Heart: The New Rice Diet Program for Reversing Heart Disease Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Spiritual Renewal
Author: Kitty Gurkin Rosati
"Heal Your Heart combines the best of ancient spiritual wisdom and the best of modern nutrition to provide a holistic program for real living." — Morton T. Kelsey, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame Author of The Other Side of Silence and God,Dreams, and Revelation
"Kitty Rosati offers the range of information and wisdom needed for long-term lifestyle changes. It's so nice to see a dietary book extend beyond nutrition and inspire the reader." — Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. Author of Love Is Letting Go of Fear
" We recommend Heal Your Heart as an excellent guide for anyone seeking health and wholeness. Kitty Rosati advocates a renewed emotional and spiritual journey along with her nutrition plan and extensive collection of delicious recipes." — Redford Williams, M.D., and Virginia Williams, Ph.D. Authors of Anger Kills
The world-renowned Duke University Rice Diet Program has helped thousands of people regain their health and vastly improve the quality of their lives. Here's the life-saving information you need to make the new Rice Diet Program a force for your own longevity and wellness.
A thorough analysis of your major risk factors for heart disease, including excess weight, high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure
- A detailed, heart-healthy nutrition plan tailored to your health needs
- Over 150 delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes
- A heart-healthy exercise plan to help heal and strengthen your heart
- Guidance on using the powerful, often untapped resources of your mind and spirit to achieve—and maintain—your goals
- Helpful resource information on support groups, newsletters, and where to get the besthealth foods
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Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Epidemic of Obesity
Author: Lisa Tartamella
A new epidemic is gripping the world. You can see it in San Antonio and London, in Beijing and Tashkent: Far too many kids are far too fat, putting them on track to becoming the first generation in history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. And it's not their fault. It's not their parents' fault, either. It's not even entirely Ronald McDonald's fault, although it's time for him to wipe that smile off his face. Obesity is the biggest threat to our children's health today, and it's up to us to get serious about defending kids against it. Generation Extra Large reveals the cultural and economic causes of childhood obesity. It's not only television, video games and junk food. Parents work long hours that disrupt family eating and exercise. Schools compound the problem by lining the halls with soda machines, serving fast food and cutting back physical education and recess. Poverty plays a key role, with kids growing up in neighborhoods where it's too dangerous to play and where unhealthy food is affordable and all too easy to get. But there is hope. Dedicated parents, educators, physicians, and community leaders are working to find creative, effective ways of helping our children slim down and stay healthy. The authors give voice to these crusaders, and provide checklists, interactive tests, and nutritional guides for concerned readers. Generation Extra Large explains why the epidemic has grown, reveals the consequences it has in store for our young people-and gives us tools to fight it.
Publishers Weekly
After Supersize Me and all of the recent press devoted to Americans' obesity, in both childhood and adulthood, fourth-graders who weigh over 200 pounds and pediatricians who look for hypertension in their young patients are no longer a surprise. About one in six American children is seriously overweight and at high risk for type 2 diabetes, but the children themselves are not to blame, say the authors of this new study, who work in or write about the nutrition field. Rather, they blame a culture that promotes fast food, along with a sharp decline in the amount of exercise young people are getting. Drawing on research and compelling case studies, the authors point out that shrinking budgets lead school cafeterias to sell junk food and install soda machines. Corporations like McDonald's promote their products by sponsoring programs in financially strapped schools. The authors believe that parents must be taught the elements of good nutrition and to support overweight children in developing good eating and exercise habits. They also strongly believe that government intervention is required to mandate phys-ed classes and to provide sufficient funding to schools so that they won't sell and advertise junk food. A comprehensive and briskly written summary, this grounded account adds a welcome voice to the chorus. Agent, Barbara Moulton. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Nutritionist Tartamella and Elaine Herscher and Chris Woolston, editors at Consumer Health Interative (an online resource), report on a quiet yet fast-growing epidemic effecting children worldwide: obesity. Using patient vignettes and interviews with children's health professionals, the trio addresses several cultural and economic causes, including a more sedentary lifestyle brought on by the Internet and video games, parents working long hours, schools providing junk food-filled vending machines, and poverty. The authors also recognize the efforts of those who are fighting for children's health through innovative exercise programs, active parent and community involvement, and responsible school administration, which leaves readers with hope. Extensive notes, a bibliography, and an informative chapter on proper nutrition for newborns through teenagers are highlights. The authors encourage readers to become advocates for our children; their informative, engaging guide is suitable for all public libraries supporting health and wellness collections.-Rachel M. Minkin, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | An epidemic for a new age | 1 |
| 2 | Fat city | 23 |
| 3 | Babes in calorie land | 51 |
| 4 | Schools - from sellouts to sanctuaries | 77 |
| 5 | The sedentary bunch | 103 |
| 6 | Obesity goes global | 133 |
| 7 | Parents : what helps, what hurts | 155 |
| 8 | A new deal for kids | 187 |
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