The Bonus Years Diet 7 Miracle Foods Including Chocolate, Red Wine, and Nuts That Can Add 6.4 Yearson Average to Your Life

by Felder, Ralph; Colman, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780399154324
• ISBN10: 0399154329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-05
• Publisher: Putnam Adult

Summary

Arigorous analysis of dramatic studies on therapeutic power of nutrition has led Dr. Oscar H. Franco and a team of acclaimed researchers to determine that substituting certain foods in place of the leading medical "cocktail" for preventing cardiovascular disease yields identical benefits. As reported in the British Medical Journal, they concluded that daily consumption of seven specific foods could result, on average, in an increase in total life expectancy of 6.6 years for men and 4.8 years for women. Dr. Ralph Felder, a physician and a master-trained chef, has now taken these groundbreaking studies out of the laboratory and put them into the kitchen. Using his inspired yet easy-toprepare recipes and creative menu plans, along with a few simple lifestyle guidelines, anyone can add healthy years to his or her life, enjoy-with few restrictions-a wide range of delicious and satisfying foods, and lose weight safely and easily, while indulging in goodies like chocolate and nuts.

Author Biography

Ralph Felder, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of Cardiac Nutrition at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and a member of the faculty of the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University. Popularly known as "Dr. Chef," Felder is also a graduate of the Culinary Arts program at the Art Institute of Phoenix and has taught healthy-cooking classes and conducted workshops for the Phoenix chapter of the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. He lives in Phoenix. His website is www.drchef.com.

Carol Colman has coauthored more than two dozen books with experts in the fields of health, psychology, and fitness, including Curves, The Better Brain Book, Body Rx, and The Melatonin Miracle.

Oscar H. Franco, M.D., Ph.D. formerly a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center (The Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands), is the author of numerous peer-reviewed studies on nutrition and cardiovascular health. He is currently a staff researcher for Unilever in London, England.

Table of Contents

Your First Food Rx
The Bonus Years: Your First Food Rx	p. 3
How the Bonus Years Keep You Young	p. 15
The Bonus Years Foods	p. 25
Wine
Dark Chocolate
Fruits and Vegetables
Fish
Garlic
Nuts
The Booster Foods	p. 61
The Right Oils
Tea
Flaxseed
Legumes
Soy
Whole Grains
How to Get Your Bonus Years	p. 85
Getting Your Daily Dose of Bonus Years Foods	p. 95
Is There a Doctor in the Kitchen?
30 Days on the Bonus Years Diet	p. 103
The Bonus Years Food Pantry	p. 353
Cooking Up the Bonus Years	p. 361
Fear of "Fishing"	p. 381
The Bonus Years Lifestyle	p. 389
Selected References	p. 393
The Polymeal	p. 401
Index	p. 411
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