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Reviews"The Ornishs' work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize since it can change the world!" --Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States "If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today." --Rita F. Redberg, M.D., editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine "This is one of the most important books on health ever written." --John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market "This book will change your life. Every day people ask me how they can activate their longevity genes to reverse aging and stave off age-associated diseases. Now I can say, 'Go read Undo It! '" --David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., A.O., professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School "Dean Ornish is from the future!" --Jack Hidary, senior adviser, Google X "Empowering and inspiring millions of people with new hope and new choices." --Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce; owner, Time magazine "This book is a life-saver!" --Beyoncé Knowles-Carter "If people follow the revolutionary program outlined in this brilliant and game-changing book, we can undo most chronic diseases, reverse global warming, and feed the hungry. Side effects include more energy, inner peace, and better sex." --James Cameron, director, Avatar and The Terminator, and Suzy Cameron, founder and author of OMD "If you read only one book on health and healing this year, this is it." --Tony Robbins "This groundbreaking book may be the most practical and helpful book you will ever read." --Neal D. Barnard, M.D., FACC, George Washington University School of Medicine, Praise for Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease "Dr. Ornish's work could change the lives of millions. . . . At the end of the year, most patients reported that their chest pains had virtually disappeared: For 82% of the patients, arterial clogging had reversed. They started to feel better almost immediately, and today they feel great. Dr. Ornish's patients are thrilled with their new lives. By the standards of conventional medicine, the impossible has happened." -- Newsweek "Whether or not you think you'll ever be concerned about your heart, this is likely to be the most useful book about health you'll read this year, maybe ever." --John Poppy, Esquire The Spectrum "If you want to see where medicine is likely to be five or ten years from now, read this book today." --President Bill Clinton "Absolutely fantastic . . . Time and again, Dr. Dean Ornish has scientifically proven that what was once thought to be medically impossible is, in fact, possible. His work is truly revolutionary." --Mehmet Oz, M.D. "Read this book. It is literally life-saving and life-transforming." --Deepak Chopra, M.D.
SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease, weight gain, and even the aging process itself with one simple, scientifically proven plan to reverse disease--as well as prevent and reduce symptoms--from the world-renowned pioneer of lifestyle medicine. Dean Ornish, M.D., has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse--undo --the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level. Medicare and many insurance companies now cover Dr. Ornish's lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported--based on forty years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Now, in this landmark book, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur. They describe what it is, why it works, and how you can do it: - Eat well a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The "Ornish diet" has been rated "#1 for Heart Health" by U.S. News & World Report every year from 2011 to 2017. - Move more moderate exercise such as walking - Stress less including meditation and gentle yoga practices - Love more how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing With seventy recipes, easy-to-follow meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of life-transforming benefits--for example, several people improved so much after only nine weeks they were able to avoid a heart transplant-- Undo It empowers readers with new hope and new choices. Praise for Undo It "The Ornishes' work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize, since it can change the world " --Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States "If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today." --Rita F. Redberg, M.D., editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine "This is one of the most important books on health ever written." --John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market, NATIONAL BESTSELLER - By the pioneer of lifestyle medicine, a simple, scientifically program proven to often reverse the progression of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level! Long rated "#1 for Heart Health" by U.S. News & World Report, Dr. Ornish's Program is now covered by Medicare when offered virtually at home. Dean Ornish, M.D., has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse--undo!--the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level. Medicare and many insurance companies now cover Dr. Ornish's lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported--based on forty years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Now, in this landmark book, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur. They describe what it is, why it works, and how you can do it: - Eat well a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The "Ornish diet" has been rated "#1 for Heart Health" by U.S. News & World Report for eleven years since 2011. - Move more moderate exercise such as walking - Stress less including meditation and gentle yoga practices - Love more how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing With seventy recipes, easy-to-follow meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of life-transforming benefits--for example, several people improved so much after only nine weeks they were able to avoid a heart transplant-- Undo It! empowers readers with new hope and new choices. Praise for Undo It! "The Ornishes' work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize, since it can change the world!" --Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States "If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today." --Rita F. Redberg, M.D., editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine "This is one of the most important books on health ever written." --John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market, Forty years of peer-reviewed research has proven that the program Dr. Dean Ornish developed to treat heart disease--rated the #1 heart-healthy diet by U.S. News & World Report every year since 2011--can also begin reducing risk factors and reversing type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and depression in as few as nine weeks, as well as prevent cancers and Alzheimer's disease. Now, for the first time, Dr. Ornish pulls all the remarkable science together into a simple four-part plan- eat a whole foods diet low in fat and refined carbohydrates; practice de-stressing techniques like yoga and meditation; get moderate exercise; and make time for love and intimacy. With 75 recipes, meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of dramatic weight loss and life-transforming benefits--one man was able to avoid a heart transplant after the nine-week program!-- Undo It! will help readers prevent, stop, and even reverse chronic disease.
LC Classification NumberRC108.O76 2019