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About this Book
The California Wine Country Diet: The Indulgent
Approach to Managing Your Weight makes choosing wellness a pleasure.
Readers will learn how to lose and maintain weight while enjoying the
delicious, healthy cuisine of the California wine country. In this diet,
wine is not a footnote but an integral part of the daily meal plans for
those who choose to drink wine.
While sampling recipes from some of California’s most renowned chefs,
readers will also learn how to deal with the complex emotional issues
which may have sabotaged their weight loss attempts in the past. The
nutritional and exercise recommendations of the new USDA Guidelines are
presented in an easy-to-understand manner and in the context of wine
country delights. From being just a way to lose weight, The California
Wine Country Diet will easily become the lifestyle readers will choose
Table of Contents
Forward by John Ash
Introduction
About the Wine Country Diet
Part I -- The Wheel of Weight Management
Chapter 1 Nutrition: Making Healthy Choices for Life
Chapter 2 Activity: The Key to Permanent Weight Control
Chapter 3 Practicality: Finding What Works in Your Real Life
Chapter 4 Pleasure: The Sensual Side of Life
Chapter 5 Relationships: How Family and Friends Can Sabotage or Support
Us
Chapter 6 Variety: Our Need for Adventure and Change
Part II --The Wheel in Motion
Chapter 7 Starting Your Activity Program
Chapter 8 Getting Ready to Start the Daily Meal Plans
Chapter 9 The Daily Foods Plans
Chapter 10 Wine and Other Pleasure Foods
Chapter 11 Restaurant Recipes
Chapter 12 Forever After
Recommended Reading
Web Sites
Chapter Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About
the Author
Haven Logan, Ph.D. has degrees in sociology,
education, social work, and health psychology. As a psychotherapist and
program director she has specialized in the treatment of eating
disorders and weight management for m ore than 20 years. She has spoken
about these subjects to hundreds of groups, as well as, on radio and
television. In 2002 Dr. Logan’s book Choosing to Be Well: A Conscious
Approach to a Healthier Lifestyle was published. This book explores the
question of why people don’t do the things they know they should for
their health.
Foreword by author and chef John Ash, known as one of
America’s most talented chefs and a guiding force in California cuisine.
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