Disease-Proof

Disease-Proof: The Remarkable Truth About What Keeps Us Well [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]

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The skills you need to slash your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and more - by 80 percent. Though we may not realize it, our behavior has tremendous effects on our health, well-being, and even gene expression. In Disease-Proof, renowned preventive medicine specialist Dr. David Katz reveals that we can reduce our risk of any chronic disease by an astonishing 80 percent - more than any drug or intervention could ever hope to do. Abundant scientific evidence shows that four simple things - not smoking, eating well, being active, and maintaining a healthy weight - play an enormous role in our health. Drawing upon the latest scientific evidence and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Katz arms us with the skills to make lasting changes in each of these areas. Disease-Proof equips listeners with the knowledge to manage weight, improve immune function, reprogram our genes, and prevent and reverse life-altering illnesses.

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• Audible Audio Edition
• Listening Length: 9 hours
• Program Type: Audiobook
• Version: Unabridged
• Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
• Audible.com Release Date: September 26, 2013
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00ET9B8G8

My doctor is a cranky old Frenchman (aren't they all?) who asks every fifty year old the same question: Do you want to get healthy or do you want to do drugs? His point is both cultural and personal: your health is your responsibility yet in America we mostly ignore lifestyle and start popping pills. Dr. Katz makes the same points in his new book Disease Proof.

For anyone interested in personal and public health this is not a new message. What Katz brings, though, is a reasoned argument based on the best research that is presented in a readable and accessible way. Not everyone will appreciate the message: I have neighbors who are fat, eat terribly, and sneak out for a smoke whenever they think no one is looking. Yet they vacation every year in Mexico for two weeks of chelation treatment to `clear' the toxins from their bodies. They really aren't interested in `food, less of it, mostly plants' or in daily exercise or in taking daily responsibility for their health. For those interested in real health, though, Katz offers up a comprehensive guide to holistic health and systemic changes.

There are a few things that separate Katz from the crowd. He has an impeccable academic resume and has developed the NuVal system for nutritional labeling. He has a long history of successful work in obesity and health that includes books, programs, and organizations. Mostly, though, he probes deeper and deeper into the physiological mechanisms of health and well being and is able to present them to a lay audience in a meaningful way. In Disease Proof he wraps all of this up into a neat little package.

Though his message sounds like your grandmother's his arguments are based on research. The real kind. Peer reviewed, tested, tested again, and then reviewed again.

There are countless books out there on the topic of getting healthy and fit, but this is the most complete and practical entry I have yet seen. Disease Proof is a step-by-step guide for overcoming the barriers that stand between us and a healthier, higher-quality and, quite probably, longer life. Its innovation is a detailed explanation of how to spark and sustain lifestyle change until it becomes the new normal. Dr. Katz makes his case by employing a newly minted word, "Skillpower", which refers to the specifics of change, and breaks down the process of remaking one's life into discrete skills to be learned and practiced, whether related to food, physical activity, motivation or even happiness.

Quick story. Some years ago, my wife, sons and I were daily drinkers of whole milk. We wanted to cut out that fat, so one day we decided to try skim milk. Well, of course it was dreadful. More like semi-gloss latex rinsewater than a dairy product. So we started instead with 2% lowfat milk. A little thin at first but, after a month or so, we no longer noticed. Then to 1%. Same process, same result. Then to .5% (hard to find anymore) and finally to skim. In six months we had permanently reprogrammed our taste buds to accept skim milk as whole milk. So I should not have been surprised to find this exact plan described in Disease Proof, along with other examples to rehab our tasters away from the sweet and salty flavors that, the author says, drive appetite. There are also eye-openers here on how best to eat on the run, decoding restaurant menus and the hidden spin food manufacturers put on those objective-looking product ingredient labels at the supermarket.

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