I’m a sucker for a cookbook…or any other book about food, and like so many women I’ve been a yo yo dieter. I really liked what I heard Dr. Stork talking about on TV the other day though – Food is medicine. Almost all of the health issues we face as we age, can be fixed with the food we choose to put in our body. I’ve always had the notion that dying is easy…it’s the living that’s hard.
The older I get the more conscious I am of the impact that food has on my body. As a celiac who has fallen off the wagon as of late, I’m really aware of the destructive nature gluten has on my body.
Dr. Stork’s theory is to begin treating food like medicine. It’s going to take a bit of doing to persuade me an Apple Pie doesn’t indeed fix everything, but I’m willing to read and learn. So I’m not really heading into this book as a diet…I’m thinking about it more in terms of lifestyle changes to keep us as healthy as we can be heading into our retirement years. I’m hoping you’ll join me. I’m sure we’re going to have a lot to talk about.
The Doctor’s Diet. A synopsis.
The Doctor’s Diet is the cure to unhealthy eating — an American epidemic with a death toll higher than that of car accidents, drug abuse, smoking, and gun violence combined. Dr. Stork is genuinely concerned about what he considers to be a true crisis. He has created a flexible and workable diet plan that will help readers lose weight, restore health, prevent disease and ultimately add years to their lives. In the book, Dr. Stork explains all of the potentially fatal health risks associated with an unhealthy diet and the specific food groups that can act as medicines to attain immediate results. Flexibility is built into 
the recipes in order to accommodate all different diets and skill levels, from meat lovers to vegetarians and chefs to non-cooks. In The Doctor’s Diet, Dr. Stork outlines the steps to a healthier life with encouragement, personal anecdotes, and a passionate sense of urgency to rescue the reader from diet-related demise.
So start reading and come back next Monday to Join the Discussion!
February 3
OPEN YOUR EYES TO BLIND EATING
Mindfulness means more than being aware of what you’re eating—it’s being fully conscious of what is in the food you eat and being honest with yourself about its potential impact on your health.
Question 1: Are you using food to fuel your entire system, as efficiently as possible, or are you a unconscious muncher?
GETTING TO KNOW HUNGER
If you’ve been eating mindlessly for years—or even decades—you may be very much out of touch with what hunger and satiety feel like. Eating mindfully starts with getting reacquainted with these feelings.
Question 2: Will you push food away, or stop eating a meal halfway through it because you’ve realized you are no longer hungry?
NOT AN ACCIDENT
The majority of patients in ERs are not there because of trauma or accidents. They are there because of their diets. That’s right: the biggest emergency in ERs across the United States is the food we willingly, knowingly, happily choose to eat.
Question 3: What’s your current mind set about food? Is it medicinal, emotional, physical, social or just a necessity?
February 10
Question 4: I’m still reading! I’ll have our questions ready by Monday, February 4th
Question 5
Question 6
February 17
Question 7
Question 8
Question 9
February 24
Question 10
Question 11
Question 12
