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SOAR: Achieving Your Best Possible Health Through Awareness
Dr. White, a well known cardiologist, has written this timely book to help people improve both their physical and spiritual health. It involves a systematic approach to evaluate physical health, nutrition, fitness, and quality of relationships. His perspective as a cardiologist is unique. He relates stories from his experience regarding real patients and how they either improved their health when faced with challenges and SOARed or did not. This creates empathy for the reader and makes it an interesting read. The book is full of many practical suggestions for health imrpovement and it is not a dull encylopedia of medical facts. It comes alive with patient examples. If you want to see your doctor less and enjoy life more, this is a must read for anyone interested in prevention and optimal health.
Slimming with Daniel: More than a Diet
Why do most diets fail?
This latest book by Dr. Roger White provides a program for readers to promote wellness in forty days. It is more than a calorie-reduction diet and exercise program to lose weight. It is an experience. It explains why most diets fail and offers an alternative solution that is healthy and sustainable.
Dr. White is a cardiologist with many years of experience dedicated to preventive health. He uses the story of Daniel from the Bible to promote a simple vegetarian diet and exercise program, yet it is more than a simple program. It acts as foundation for sustainable change. He uses case studies to create a narrative that is easy to read. The book contains a lot of practical information about weight reduction. We all could benefit from a little more wellness. This lifestyle program makes that possible.
SOAR: The Workbook
Achieving Your Best Possible Health Through Awareness
See Your Doctor Less – Enjoy Life More!
This workbook accompanies the book SOAR – Achieving Your Best Possible Health Through Awareness. The workbook presentation is a practical and easy to use self help program to help you improve your total physical and spiritual health. This book is used in Dr. White’s health improvement seminars.
The Anthropause Tea Party
There once was a rat named Big Rat. Big Rat had lived and interacted with humans for many years. Through keen observations, he knew their behaviors well. Some would even call him an amateur anthropologist. He lived a peaceful life in a cute little plantation-style cottage within a very popular tourist resort in Hawaii.
Big Rat’s little cottage was on the golf course at the resort/ Directly across from his inconspicuous little cottage were three world-class hotels, pristine beach lagoons, numerous gourmet restaurants and shops to cater to any tourist’s desire. The tourist constantly scurried like rats all day from one attraction to another.
Big Rat enjoyed the holiday atmosphere. His hobby was to study human behaviors. He took notes of his observations to use in one of his future books. Big Rat’s well-known books were read by both rats and humans. He enjoyed writing about his many years of travel and experiences. But even after seventy years, he was about to learn something new about humans.
So begins another typical day for Big Rat. Or so he thought.
The Food Paradox
What Is the Missing Ingredient?
If you were given the following choices, which would you choose
eat more, weigh less, and be healthy,
or,
eat less, weigh more, and be sick?
Clearly, most people would quickly choose the first option over the second because of all the obvious benefits. But how can one eat more and weigh less? This is truly a paradox.
Paradox is defined as a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality, expresses a possible truth. Paradoxes can teach us a lot because they get our attention. For example, they can help us look at old problems differently. In spite of medical
advancements, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney failure, and dementia are increasing worldwide in epidemic proportions. Just giving more medications have not prevented or reduced these problems.
It is scientifically proven that eating more plant-based foods and becoming more physically active promote better health and longevity. To get more people to adapt to this lifestyle, understanding the food paradox can help instigate positive change.
These three components of the food paradox make adapting it successful.
1. Eat lots of low-caloric-dense natural—real—foods. Fill up with these foods first to satisfy hunger. At the same time, it is critical to reduce the amount of unnatural or processed high-caloric-dense—fake—foods that you eat.
2. Modify addictions to sugar, fat, and salt. Recognize your personal addictions. Limit these foods, and deal with psychological triggers for addictions.
3. Maintain regular, sustainable exercise. This is not an option. It is a necessity for good health. Dieting alone will not make you healthy or give you sustainable weight loss. To live optimally, you need endurance and muscle strength, which come only with regular exercise. Physical movement is also critical to making insulin in your body function better. How insulin works in the body is closely connected to metabolism and utilization of food.
Without sustainable exercise, reaching your optimal weight and maintaining good health are almost impossible.
All of this sounds simple, and you have heard it all before. So if it is so simple, why do so many people choose a diet and lifestyle that cause suboptimal health instead of vibrant health?
