A Recipe for Life
by the Doctor’s Dietitian
Finally a nutrition book that covers all the bases – telling you what’s carbohydrate, protein, and fat, how to put them together for a tasty and healthful meal; how to manage your weight, grocery shop intelligently, organize your food; a guide to tell you all about vitamins/minerals, what nutrients are in foods, how to avoid disease through nutrition and what drugs affect your weight.
With over 250 color pages, A Recipe for Life includes 60 easy-to-make recipes for main dishes, salads, soups and desserts.
Smart eating does not have to be boring, bland or uninteresting. It can be colorful, tasty, and fun – it’s just a matter of having the tools to accomplish your goals and being open and willing to learn a new way. This book will dispel many nutrition myths and provide answers to common nutrition quandaries such as:
- Are carbohydrates good or bad and how many are necessary for a balanced diet
- How protein can impact your hunger, metabolism and interest in food
- How to tell the differences in types of fat, and which ones to include for health
- What to order and choose when you dine out
- How to choose healthy foods in the grocery store without relying on advertiser’s health claims
- How to eat when you are hungry and stop when you’ve had enough food
- What vitamins and minerals are necessary and what foods do you need to eat have that cannot be found in a vitamin pill
- Why lack of sleep causes weight gain
- How being stressed makes your body burn less fat
- Why eating too much starchy and processed carbohydrates can increase your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer
- Medications and weight gain
David Baron, Chief of Staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center says:
“When you're finally tired of reading ‘diet’ books that don't work, and you're ready to learn about how to develop a lifestyle that will result in a healthy weight, then it's time to read Susan's book…She provides a clear and un-intimidating path back to good nutritional habits that will last a lifetime. And, she does it in a style that's engaging and enjoyable to read…”
If you are interested in purchasing this book, please call (310) 828-4476 or email Susan to order. Cost is $34.95 plus tax (CA residents only) and shipping. Or order via paypal by clicking here.
Teaching Tools for Dietitians
Are you at a loss for how to convey the important and critical concepts to your clients? Having color diagrams at your fingertips can be helpful in explaining moderate to difficult nutrition problems to clients. Susan has developed these diagrams over the 15 years of private practice. They have been invaluable to helping her clients understand what is going on in their bodies and now she is making them available to health care professionals for a low price of $25.00 per packet plus tax and shipping. Click here to order.
The Packet includes 18 pages of color diagrams with text explaining the diagrams. The diagrams included are:
1. What is a serving of carbohydrate?
2. What is a serving of protein and fat?
3. Understanding Insulin Resistance
4. Visual of False Hunger and the Insulin Response to a High Carbohydrate Meal versus a Balanced Meal
5. Balancing your Meals with Ease
6. Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Snack Options
7. Eat the Colors: identifying the colors of fruits and vegetables and what phytochemicals and nutrients are associated with each one.
8. Eat the Colors – part two
9. Visual of Regular Balanced Meals: Vital to Appetite and Blood Sugar Control and visual of maintaining a strong metabolism and thermogenesis
10. The Important Omega’s – identifying ALA, DHA and EPA and their importance in the body
11. How Additional bites do matter – a strong visual of 2 bites more per meal
12. A visual of the Hunger Scale and how Carbohydrate/Protein/Fat Intake
affects Hormone/Hunger Levels – understanding Ghrelin and Leptin
13. What you can’t find in a Pill: categories of Phytochemcials or Phytonutrients
14. Visual Effects of Stress in the Body and how to effectively manage stress
15. Visual of Pitfalls of Unhealthy eating and the Dangers of Visceral versus Subcutaneous Fat
16. An inside Look at Unhealthy Consumption and visuals of oxidation and health
17. Clean Food Shopping List
18. Ingredients to Minimize when Shopping
Please email Susan to order a packet.