The Healthiest Diet on the Planet : : why the Foods you Love -- Pizza, Pancakes, Potatoes, Pasta, and More -- are the Solution to Preventing Disease and Looking and Feeling Your Best

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / McDougall, John
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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There Are Lies and Damned Lies -- The McDougall Story -- The Healthiest Diet Versus Fad Diets -- Red Light, Green Light -- Recipes for the Healthiest Diet on the Planet.
"The bestselling author and internationally celebrated physician and expert on nutrition offers an appealing, approachable health solution--eat the foods you love to lose weight and get healthy. For years, we've been told that a healthy diet is heavy on meat, poultry, and fish, and avoids carbohydrates, particularly foods high in starch--empty calories harmful to our bodies. But what if everything we've heard was backwards? High in calories and cholesterol, animal fats and proteins too often leave you hungry and lead to overeating and weight gain. They are often the root causes of a host of avoidable health problems--from indigestion, ulcers, and constipation to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. On the other hand, complex carbohydrates like whole grains, legumes, tubers, and other starches provide your body with essential proteins and nutrients that satisfy the appetite while simultaneously fighting illness. But Americans eat far too few calories from carbohydrates--only about forty percent, according to Dr. John McDougall, internationally renowned expert on nutrition and health, featured on the documentary Forks Over Knives. The Healthiest Diet on the Planet helps us reclaim our health by enjoying nutritious starches, vegetables, and fruits. McDougall takes on the propaganda machines pushing dangerous, high-fat fad diets and cuts through the smoke and mirrors of the diet industry. He offers a clear, proven guide to what we should and shouldn't eat to prevent disease, slow the aging process, improve our physical fitness, be kind to the environment, and be our most attractive selves. Featuring two dozen color photos and mouth-watering, easy-to-follow recipes for buckwheat pancakes, breakfast tortillas, baked potato skins, rainbow risotto, red lentil soup, green enchiladas, dairy-free lasagna and pizza, and more, The Healthiest Diet on the Planet will help you look great, feel better, and forever change the way you think about health and nutrition"-- Provided by publisher.

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Vibrant health submitted by drreader on December 18, 2016, 8:35pm Dr. McDougall has written his best book yet about the benefits of a plant based diet for vibrant health. He describes how a diet focused on meeting the needs of our bodies for fuel, delivered by starches such as grains, beans, potatoes, and other starchy vegetables, helps us to avoid chronic health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. He also addresses the ways in which Big Meat and Big Dairy industries in collusion with government lobbyists have blocked the information about health benefits of reducing or eliminating meat and dairy on the American plate. Dr. McDougall makes his message easy to understand with clear color photos.

Starch, glorious starch submitted by willow on February 21, 2017, 11:07am I must confess I liked the idea of this book -- a repudiation of the Paleo craze -- better than the actual diet espoused. However, his searing commentary on the stupidity of eating like a caveman is worth reading, for entertainment value at the very least. (Fans of organ meats may be slightly offended.)