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The cheese trap : how breaking a surprising addiction will help you lose weight, gain energy, and get healthy / Neal D. Barnard ; recipes by Dreena Burton ; foreword by Marilu Henner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Grand Central Life & Style, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781455594689
  • 1455594687
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 641.5/63 23
LOC classification:
  • RM234.5 .B37 2017
Contents:
Introduction. Hidden in plain sight -- The ultimate processed food -- More calories than Coke, more salt than potato chips: what cheese does to your waistline -- How cheese keeps you hooked -- Hidden hormone effects -- Health problems you never bargained for -- Heart disease, diabetes, and the French paradox -- What the animals go through -- The industry behind the addiction -- A healthy diet -- All the flavor, none of the regrets -- Recipes -- Appendix. An elimination diet for identifying problem foods.
Summary: Cites the health-compromising qualities of cheese and its immoderate consumption, outlining a radical program for losing weight, improving overall health, and managing cheese cravings.
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Book Book Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 641.563 BAR Available 32500001719427
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New York Times bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard reveals the shocking truth about cheese-the dangerous addiction that is harming your health-and presents a radical program to lose weight and feel great.

We've been told that dairy does a body good, but the truth is that cheese can be dangerous. Loaded with calories, fat, and cholesterol, cheese can make you gain weight and leads to a host of health problems like high blood pressure and arthritis. Worse, it contains mild opiates that make it additive, triggering the same brain receptors as heroin and morphine.

In The Cheese Trap , Dr. Neal Barnard presents a comprehensive program to help readers break free of their cheese addiction so they can lose weight, boost energy, and improve their overall health. This easy-to-follow diet features a treasury of healthy recipes that will tame even the toughest cravings-from pizza, to lasagna, to ice cream and cheesecake.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index.

Introduction. Hidden in plain sight -- The ultimate processed food -- More calories than Coke, more salt than potato chips: what cheese does to your waistline -- How cheese keeps you hooked -- Hidden hormone effects -- Health problems you never bargained for -- Heart disease, diabetes, and the French paradox -- What the animals go through -- The industry behind the addiction -- A healthy diet -- All the flavor, none of the regrets -- Recipes -- Appendix. An elimination diet for identifying problem foods.

Cites the health-compromising qualities of cheese and its immoderate consumption, outlining a radical program for losing weight, improving overall health, and managing cheese cravings.

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Publishers Weekly Review

The average American eats 33 pounds of cheese a year, and physician and veganism advocate Barnard (Power Foods for the Brain) asserts that giving it up could be a route to improved overall health. Cheese, he warns, is an essentially unhealthy product-filled with fat, cholesterol, and sodium-and has addictive properties as well. Despite an overly alarmist tone, Barnard is effective in explaining how the "ultimate processed food" is manufactured, and, with plenty of statistics to hand, why it isn't healthful. To this end, he raises the array of medical problems potentially associated with dairy or obesity. Barnard's antidote is a standard plant-based food plan. Readers can eschew cheese and create healthier versions of favorite foods by following 70 recipes developed by vegan cookbook author Dreena Burton for meals, snacks, and desserts. The book also lists versatile cheese replacements employing nut butters, non-dairy plant milks, coconuts, and soy. There's more here than most readers may care to know about cheese, but despite Barnard's proselytizing, he details a feasible transition to plant-based eating. Agent: Brian DeFiore, DeFiore and Company. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC, is perhaps the world's most respected authority on vegan diets. He is a faculty member of the George Washington University School of Medicine and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Dr. Barnard is editor-in-chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a nutrition textbook given to all second-year medical students in the U.S. He is also editor of Good Medicine , a magazine with a circulation of 150,000. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes and The 21-Day Weight-Loss Kickstart, among many others.
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