Healthy Pleasures or The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook

Healthy Pleasures

Author: Robert Ornstein

Imagine a medical treatment that can decrease heart disease, boost immune function, relieve depression, and block pain—whose only side effect is that it makes you feel good. It’s safe, inexpensive, and readily available, No, it’s not a miracle drug; rather, these benefits come from the experience of pleasure itself. And this pleasure prescription is filled in the internal pharmacy of the brain.Psychologist Robert Ornstein and physician David Sobel deliver the latest scientific evidence that pleasures—from saunas to siestas, chocolate to charity—and positive attitudes—from happiness to optimism—are not only enjoyable but also good for you.

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``At nearly every turn, pleasure has gotten a bad name,'' write the authors, who tell us that in pursuit of longevity Americans have become overly abstemious. Psychologist Ornstein and Sobel, director of preventive medicine at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, believe that eradicating all of life's pleasures--whether chocolate, alcohol or even an occasional puff of tobacco--represents a far more serious threat to our well-being than whatever damage may be wreaked by occasionally indulging. Deploring what they call ``medical terrorism,'' they point out that some once-dire findings on health hazards have been reversed, disputed or exaggerated. The authors' secret for happiness: forget asceticism in the name of health. We should touch each other more often, learn to take life a little more lightly, partake in some form of gentle physical exercise, nap when necessary and learn to be less self-centered generally. If this advice seems a touch obvious, it may bear repeating nonetheless. 75,000 printing; Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club alternate; first serial to American Health Magazine; major ad/promo. (June)

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The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook

Author: Laura J Pensiero

A comprehensive guide to cancer prevention

The oldest cancer-prevention institute in the country, New York City's famed Strang Cancer Prevention Center advocates promoting cure through early detection. It has been instrumental in developing early screening and prevention programs as well as nutrition counseling.

Now readers can benefit from the same topnotch advice the center provides for its clients. A remarkable collaboration of leading cancer prevention experts and America's top gourmet chefs, The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook presents cuttingedge nutritional and scientific data on cancer, as well as a tantalizing collection of health-inducing recipes.

Complete with the latest information about the crucial link between diet and health, this book introduces nature's own powerful cancer-fighting agents such as the chemicals found in many fruits and vegetables. More than 150 recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, sides, entrees, and desserts are featured. Research has shown that up to 80 percent of all cancers can be prevented by the type of changes in diet and lifestyle outlined in this book.

Laura Pensiero, R.D., a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York, is a dietitian, nutrition educator, and restaurant owner.

Michael Osborne, M.D., is president of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center and a professor at Cornell University Medical College.

Susan Oliveria, Sc.D., M.P.H., is on the faculty at Strang, Cornell University Medical College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering.