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Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish
By Dean Ornish, MD
Review by Sally Fallon
This cookbook is a follow up to Ornish's bestselling Program for
Reversing Heart Disease and his "five-part life-style program" called
Simple Choices, Powerful Changes, available on cassette.
Noting that "heart disease worsened for the majority of patients.
. . who exercised moderately and followed a conventional ‘lowfat' diet,"
Ornish concludes that we haven't gone far enough. Rather than chuck
the whole lowfat nonsense out the window, Ornish argues that all fat
is bad, even olive oil. The only way to get rid of plaque in the arteries,
he claims, is to cut the fat out completely.
A side benefit, according to Ornish, is that the no-fat regime will
make you "feel better. . . and increase your joy of living."
And since meat, even lean meat, might contain a little bit of the
horrid fat, it's also got to go. Dr. Ornish's cookbook is all about
grains, legumes and vegetables.
If you don't like to cook, you can order Life Choice frozen meals
from ConAgra, the big grain conglomerate, which just might benefit if
America were to embrace Dr. Ornish's style of eating.
About the Reviewer
 Sally
Fallon is the author of
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct
Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched,
thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal
fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary
for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection
from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to
write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the
subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation
and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk,
Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community
activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter,
cream, eggs and meat.
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