Product Description

The United States is one of the sickest nations on the planet. Despite our wealth, access to educational media, natural resources, and opportunity, most Americans accept atherosclerosis, cancer, hypertension, osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other degenerative chronic diseases as part of the normal aging process. Unfortunately, even our traditional "modern medicine" practitioners believe this misguided and bleak picture out of ignorance. This is because in a traditional curriculum, many physicians-in-training only receive one course in nutrition—the safest, most effective, and least expensive form of chronic disease prevention available. This one course is guided by the faulty 1992 "Food Pyramid" of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), which derived from the even more dangerous "Basic Four Food Groups" of 1956. In both cases, the approval of these dietary guidelines was a political rather than a medical decision, and recent scientific evidence has shown how these guidelines keep Americans sick rather than healthy.

The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention explores the mountain of evidence that suggests that a diet free of animal products can have radically beneficial effects on many conditions that affect vast numbers of Americans. Dr. Saunders provides an exhaustive list of references and sources in arguably the most comprehensive argument in print for the human health benefits of the vegan diet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155962 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 243 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781590560389
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
• Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices

From Publishers Weekly
Psychologist and prevention consultant Kerrie K. Saunders posits that America is one of the sickest nations and that many of our diseases can be controlled or eliminated through diet. In The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention: Evidence Supporting the New Four Food Groups, she begins with documentation from writings throughout history positing that meat and fat are dietary dangers. The diets of other cultures indicate that four food groups constitute a healthy diet: fruits, grains, vegetables and legumes alone and in combination will provide all the essentials for optimum nutrition. While foods are recommended to improve specific conditions, this is not a recipe or meal plan source but rather a series of essays arguing for the vegan lifestyle. Ample citations are provided to support the theories, and charts and boxes break out lists of foods and resources where applicable.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Kerrie K. Saunders, Ph.D., M.S., L.L.P. received her Ph.D. from Clayton College in Birmingham, Alabama and her masters in psychology from Eastern Michigan University. She is a registered psychologist and lives in southeastern Michigan.

Customer Reviews

Essential for Anyone Looking to Prevent Chronic Disease
The author writes with zeal about the "new medicine" - vegan diet. Full of references and detail, this is a solid discussion of how chronic disease can be prevented (and managed/reveresed) with diet. As a vegan for over 3 years and a Registered Nurse, I thought I knew it all, but this book proved me wrong. Your average physician is going to do one thing, wait until you have disease and then prescribe medication or surgery to "manage it." You can do better. Take matters into your own hands and read this book! Highly recommended.

The Best Gift This Year!
I received "The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention" a few days ago for my birthday and have not been able to put it down since. I know, that sounds like something one would say about a good novel, not a diet book, but this isn't your typical "diet" book. It outlines all the different "diseases" that are CAUSED by diet, and provides a roadmap for reversing or stopping the damage. As I read the "Vegan Diet...", I can't help but think about the friends and family that I have that could be helped by following the advise given within. From the coworker with a daughter "diagnosed" with A.D.D. (this same coworker blurted out the other day that Cheetos must be healthy because they have "cheese" on them), to my dangerously overweight cousin, everyone knows someone that could be helped by this book. I know what many of my friends will be getting for Christmas this year, a copy of this book!

Back to Basics
This book, "The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention", reinforces common sense attitudes toward the relationship between the quality of the diet and the resulting effect on health. This is the only book on the subject of health and diet that I have found that is simple enough for anyone to understand and yet sophisticated enough to cause most doctors and other health care providers to re-evaluate their practice of medicating the symptom and ignoring the root cause. Anyone doing research will love all of the credited sources and references, there is no "opinion" in this book, it is all proven with cited sources and studies.