The New American Diet [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONThe New American Diet Is for EverybodyIt is usually the "simplest" ideas that are considered the most revolutionary. Only a few years ago the idea that one diet could prevent, to a significant degree, all of the major diseases of both over- and under consumption was considered Utopian by many and absurd by some. But, in fact, the New American Diet detailed in this book does exactly that. It is, as this book documents, the most effective type of diet that can be devised, based upon present scientific and medical knowledge, for the prevention of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes mellitus, several forms of cancer and a number of other disorders. It is, in addition, ideally suited for gradual weight loss and is, we are convinced, the most promising diet available for long-term weight maintenance once target weight is achieved.The New American Diet involves gradual alteration of the current American diet through careful, programmed changes in the high-fat, high-cholesterol, low-complex carbohydrate, high-salt diet that is presently eaten in the United States and in Western Europe. It is this typical Western-world diet which, as we will demonstrate, has become a major contributor to premature death and disease.The New American Diet Is Market-Tested and People-FriendlyWhat sets the New American Diet apart from others, in addition to its unified approach to preventing disease, is its genesis in controlled experimental and clinical scientific research. It is a way of eating which we have determined, through scientific study, may not only help you live longer (because it can help prevent many life-threatening diseases) but is also a diet that you can live happily with.We concluded long ago that no matter how good a diet is on paper it is worthless if people won't use it. Hence, we have devoted many years determining to what extent people can and will change to new ways of eating. Many are now recommending the kind of low-fat, high-complex carbohydrate diet that we helped pioneer, develop and refine over nearly thirty years. But it is one thing to advise people what to eat in a general way, quite another for them actually to do itand like it. In our program, we have put it all together, to provide not only the what and the why but also the howand to do so in ways that people can understand and utilize not just for weeks or months but for years and lifetimes.Perhaps the most important of the studies that have permitted us to formulate a genu-