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After more than twenty years of searching for a
single source for the most accurate, up-to-date, cross-cultural information
available on living longer and prospering, I finally had to admit that it didn't
exist.
Oh, I discovered bits and pieces, time-tested tips
and authoritative prescriptions on everything from defeating cancer without
dangerous surgery and chemotherapy and controlling or eliminating diabetes to
curing ulcers, colitis, rosacea, high cholesterol, macrodegenerative eye
disease, and much more scattered all over the place. I found clips and
tips on the Internet, in books and magazines, throughout historical tomes, in
the libraries of medical and scientific research facilities scattered around the
globe...but never in a single, easily accessible place.
My search was borne of more than idle curiosity.
I found myself growing older and literally falling apart. Conventional
medicine treated the symptoms and bought more time but often at the expense of
quality of life. Pharmaceutical America provided answers to my questions
but often at greater costs than the solutions presented me. And
nothing--from bombarding the body with radioactive isotopes to removing fully
functioning but partially damaged or diseased organs--made sense outside the
realm of the Fraternité de Grande Médecine.
But where to turn for the alternative? Where
to look for the answers? Where do you turn when you've exhausted all
avenues of hope?
Suddenly the idea struck me.
When I had become interested in pond-keeping and
needed answers to questions about building outdoor ponds and raising goldfish
and koi--answers I couldn't find in a single location--I decided to write the
book, Zen and the Art of Pond Building. When I wanted to
know more about the most dreaded of all human diseases and couldn't find a
single source containing the most up-to-date information available, I wrote the
book, Cancer.
Thus was born the concept behind Zen and the
Art of Eating Healthy: Eating To Save Your Life. It is, in short,
every person's dream guide to how to eat better in order to live a healthier,
happier, and longer life. The sage advice included within its pages comes
from hundreds of experts...people ranging from Doctor Spock to Mr. Spock, from
Dolly Parton to the Dali Lama, from Gloria Steinem to Charlie Brown, from the
Mayo Clinic's Guide to Better Living to Mad Magazine, invaluable
pearls of wisdom with anecdotal comments on how to apply the best advice in the
world to everyday life. All verified and corroborated by the latest in
traditional and alternative research.
In this book you'll learn about a new way of
eating to help you sidestep the onset of serious disease (and even the nagging
properties of old age) told in a straight-forward, easy-to-read fashion by the
author of the award-winning book, Cancer.
You'll learn what's causing the problems you're
experiencing, how traditional Western medicine approaches treatment, how
alternative medicine (both Eastern and Western) differs, how Big Government has
let us down, why Corporate America has sold us out, and the latest studies on
the effects--and effectiveness--of a healthier approach to eating.
Along the way, you'll learn things about your own
body--those flesh and bones you've come to know and love over all these
years--you never knew before. You'll discover how the condition of your heart is
a product of your environment; how healthful breathing is a learned technique;
how your immune system is one of the wonders of the universe; how your mind
helps to control your physiology; and how what you eat affects them all.
You'll learn about the role your diet plays not
only in your overall health, but also in combating specific diseases and
maladies--all impeccably documented, with appropriate studies indexed for
further research.
So, isn't it time you changed your outlook on life
and began eating your way to health? Aren't you ready to shed an
antiquated and inadequate medical tradition for something that works?
Wouldn't you like to have all of the most timely and trusted information the
world community has evolved in order for you to get well and stay well in one
easily accessible location?
Zen and the Art of Eating Healthy will
teach you how to regain control of your life by gaining control over what you
consume and how you consume it. Along the way, you'll have fun, lose
weight, feel more energetic, require fewer visits to the doctor's office, shed
yourself of those nagging aches and pains, and turn your brain on in ways you
never before imagined.
In this book, you'll learn a simple and effective
means to revamping the way you think about food and eating and, along the way,
reprogram your entire mind and body to help you to live the fullest, healthiest
life humanly possible without the use of dangerous prescription drugs and
invasive medical procedures.
You'll learn all that and more. And that's
not a promise. It's a guarantee.
A full-time freelance
writer for more than twenty years, D. J. Herda is a former book, magazine, and
newspaper editor and college creative writing workshop instructor in Chicago. His
credits include more than 80 conventionally published books and several hundred
thousand short stories, articles, columns, scripts, and derivative works.