The Bonus Years Diet: 7 Miracle Foods Including Chocolate, Red Wine, and Nuts That Can Add 6.4 Years on Average to Your Life

by Ralph Felder, Carol Colman, Oscar H. Franco

Book Overview

Draws on rigorous nutritional studies to explain how specific foods can be substituted for leading medical cocktails in order to prevent cardiovascular disease, in a collection of easy-to-prepare recipes and menu plans that outline the strategic daily consumption of seven specific foods.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399154329
• ISBN13: 9780399154324
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great read - great results

I found this book to be exceptionally well written with useful information and great recipes. I have been following the book and lost 21 pounds and feel 21 years younger...

The Bonus Years Diet

From: www.BasilAndSpice.com Author & Book Views On A Healthy Life! Book Review: The Bonus Years Diet: 7 Miracle Foods Including Chocolate, Red Wine, and Nuts That Can Add 6.4 Years on Average to Your Life (GP Putnam's Sons, 2008) by Ralph Felder, M.D., Ph.D., and Carol Colman Scientific Adviser: Oscar H. Franco, M.D., Ph.D. A FirstLook Feature Lose weight, drink wine and eat chocolate! The Bonus Years Diet is where medical science meets the lust for food. This popular life-enhancing book can radically change the body. It is the culmination of the last 25 years of the latest cardiovascular research from the British Medical Journal. These sound studies have provided the basis for The Bonus Years Diet. Results show that when the diet is improved, the average person will add an extra six years and four months to his life - these are the Bonus Years. This delectable eating program simultaneously reduces risk factors for heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, triglyceride levels, C-reactive protein (CRP), and LDL cholesterol. The Bonus Foods collectively protect the endothelium - the Teflon-like lining within the opening of the coronary arteries. The endothelium is the final common pathway to the body and must be protected. The body is dosed with a diet of foods as prevention against disease. The Bonus Years Diet is the first book to put this concept at the center of the eating plan. Bonus Foods are both affordable and delicious: dark chocolate, red wine, nuts, garlic, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Additional support is given to the inclusion of beneficial Booster Foods, those which complement the Bonus Foods: tea, flaxseed, legumes, soy, whole grains, and healthy oils - olive, grapeseed, and canola. Putting these groundbreaking concepts into practice is Ralph Felder, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Felder is the section chief for Cardiovascular Nutrition, in the Cardiology Fellowship Program at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also a research biologist. Well known as Dr. Chef, Ralph Felder is trained in Culinary Arts, and teaches healthy cooking classes to patients. Wishing to send his message of health to the public, Felder, with The Bonus Years Diet, provides more than 100 recipes, specific cooking techniques, selection and preparation explanations, and nutritional analyses. Dr. Ralph Felder presents the miracle of how the taste of delicious world cuisines can effectively expand life without side effects. The chemistry of the kitchen comes out of the lab and into the home. The Bonus Years Diet enables the reader to understand how the foods he eats affect him both today and tomorrow. This phenomenal book hits the nail on the head! 5 Stars

bonus years diet

My daughter bought this book for me after reading about it in Oprah magazine. Dosing food like doctors dose pills. A great idea. Dr. Felder gives us menus for an entire month and that makes it so easy to follow this diet. The recipes are great. He is a chef and knows his stuff! My husband loves chocolate so his new favorite dessert is the chocolate risotto pudding. I love the stuffed french toast. I just saw Dr. Felder on tv and as he says "this is a diet we cal live with."

The Bonus Years

I own many cookbooks but this is absolutely one of my favorites. I love the healthy aspects of this book. I appreciate all of the research put into it---delicious dishes based on science, but wow do I thoroughly enjoy the recipes. Dr. Felder's Chefs hat shines through here. I love the pan-grilled salmon with frisee salad lyonnaise--excellent!! The black bean chili is delicious and the crab salad with creamy dressing is the best. Another favorite is the salmon with shanghi red sauce. What a grerat combination, a MD and Chef. No wonder this book is so good.

The Bonus Years Diet

An incredibly useful and informative book. At last something about lifestyle which makes sense and is fun at the same time. I congratulate the author for making such complex stuff so understandable.