The Pritikin Edge
10 Essential Ingredients for a Long and Delicious Life
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Sharing recipes and lifestyle tips, Robert A. Vogel and Paul Tager Lehr reveal the ten essential steps of The Pritikin Program to help you get healthy and energized.
We Americans may reside in the greatest nation on earth, but our lifestyle is killing us. One quarter of us still smoke, two-thirds of us are fat, three-quarters of us don't exercise, and stress and depression are ubiquitous. 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.
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.
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.
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Vogel, Robert A. & Paul Tager Lehr (text) & Michael Fryd (photogs.). The Pritikin Edge: 10 Essential Ingredients for a Long and Delicious Life. S. & S. 2008. c.400p. photogs. index. HEALTH~ While much of the material here has been presented in earlier texts, this introduction to the Pritikin Program and philosophy abounds with sample recipes, appendixes of exercises, case studies of successful clients, and handy key-point summaries that set a friendly, easy-to-read tone. Suitable for public libraries. Background: The Pritikin Program, first developed by Nathan Pritikin almost 30 ago in response to his diagnosis with heart disease, severely limits salt, fats, sugars, and protein in favor of fresh vegetables, fruit, high fiber, and regular exercise. The authors analyze the science behind the program and describe the ten essential ingredients of the Pritikin Program with rules and techniques, e.g., start with salad and soup, eat small portions of high-calorie foods, eliminate fast food, and decrease stress and depression. Seventy-five pages of recipes and a sample two-week menu help get readers started.--Crystal Renfro, Georgia Inst. of Technology Lib. & Information Ctr., Atlanta.
