The Perricone Prescription or Paradox of Plenty

The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation

Author: Nicholas Perricon

The Perricone Prescription explains the rock-solid laboratory research behind Dr. Nicholas Perricone's revolutionary anti-aging theories, giving you the knowledge and the tools to fight aging from the inside out while at the same time decreasing the likelihood of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and a host of other degenerative diseases.

Step by step, Dr. Perricone guides you on the road to improved health and looks and increased well-being, providing:

• a three-day "jump start" diet
• the 28-day Perricone Program of meals, exercise, and skin care
• delicious, nutritious, easy-to-follow recipes
• the latest news in topical applications, supplements, and age-defying technology
• and much more!

Publishers Weekly

Perricone (The Wrinkle Cure), a professor of dermatology at Yale Medical School, believes that relatively simple changes in eating can effect dramatic changes in physical appearance and well-being. He has created a month-long program broken up into daily menus as well as a more restrictive three-day regimen designed to produce immediate results. Perricone's guiding principle, which he explains in some depth, is to reduce inflammation at the cellular level, which, he believes, causes the skin to age and is also linked to degenerative disease. Perricone suggests that protein and some fat is essential for everyone. He is particularly keen on the benefits of fish. Certain foods high in carbohydrates cereals, breads, bananas are taboo in this plan because of their high glycemic index; they cause a spike in blood sugar and prompt the body's insulin response, which stores rather than burns fat and causes inflammation. Perricone also recommends an exercise regimen, and nearly a third of the book is devoted to a discussion of antioxidants, vitamin supplements and creams. Some may question his nutritional theories, and others may find the diet difficult to stick to, with its almost total restriction of starchy foods. Still, Perricone is a proponent of Barry Sears's The Zone, and readers who have followed that book and Perricone's own bestselling earlier volume will probably appreciate this one. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Dr. Perricone's Three-Day Nutritional Face-lift	7
2	The Inflammation-Aging Connection	17
3	The Wrinkle-Free Diet	30
4	Anti-inflammatory Supplements for Smooth and Radiant Skin	74
5	Topical Anti-inflammatories for Reversing and Preventing Signs of Aging	110
6	Go for the Glow: The Antiaging Power of Exercise	141
7	Dr. Perricone's 28-Day Wrinkle-Free Program	172
8	The Ageless Future: Developing Technologies	205
	Appendices
A	Recipes for the Perricone Program	219
B	Resources	235
C	Glossary	240
	References	244
	Index	267

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Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Author: Harvey Levenstein

In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the American diet since 1930.