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From the best-selling author of Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan comes an easy-to-use guide to better health. This revolutionary new lifestyle guide shows how everyone can make basic, important changes to ensure a longer, happier, more vibrant life. Feel younger, look younger, and create a new outlook. Shed those annoying extra 10 pounds, have more energy, become more active and vital. This is an exciting, invigorating, innovative, scientifically based, and effective foundation for living life to the fullest-and longest!

 

DR. SHAPIRO’S PRESCRIPTION:

IT’S TIME TO GO BEYOND WEIGHT LOSS;

TAKE 11 DAYS, ADD 10 YEARS TO YOUR LIFE

Best-selling Author and Renowned Weight Loss Expert Tells How

NEW YORK – February 14, 2005 Expanding on the success of his worldwide bestselling series of Picture Perfect Weight Loss books, published in 12 languages, New York weight loss physician Dr. Howard Shapiro now offers a four-point program for living a longer, healthier, and happier life with his Picture Perfect Prescription (Chamberlain Bros.; March 14, 2005). A book for the 21st century, the Picture-Perfect Prescription includes an interactive CD that helps readers personalize the program and a DVD featuring Dr. Shapiro’s trademark food comparisons and exercise demonstrations.

Why is a renowned weight-loss doctor now telling us that weight loss isn’t enough? That it’s only one of four factors that help us fight disease and enhance vigor? That in the 21st century, it’s time to go beyond dieting to confront the challenge of living a longer, more vital, more vigorous, healthier life?

In 25 years as a weight loss expert, Dr. Shapiro noted that his healthiest patients—those with the best self-image, the most vitality, the fewest illnesses, and the most optimistic outlook—combined four essential factors in their daily lives. A growing body of research into the process of ageing by scientists and physicians around the world confirms the essential nature of these four factors. Now, in his Picture-Perfect Prescription, Dr. Shapiro makes these life-extending behaviors the basis of a practical, workable four-point program readers can do in 11 life-changing days:

Using his trademark visual demonstrations, Dr. Shapiro has structured a day-by-day program that integrates these behaviors into everyday life with four days of awareness training followed by a seven-day action plan. During awareness training, readers use exercises and questionnaires to identify where they are today and where they want to be on each of the four points. A seven-day action plan gets them there. At the end of the 11 days, readers have undergone a life-changing experience with immediate benefits in health, energy, weight loss, and vitality.

As an added bonus, readers can measure their progress with a CD that features a lifespan calculator, calorie counter, recipes, and more. The companion DVD brings the Picture Perfect Prescription to life with food and exercise demonstrations including lifestyle exercise, yoga, tai chi, Pilates, core fusion, BodyRolling, and weight training.

 What the Experts Are Saying:

"A doctor on the front lines shares the inside story on how to slow aging while enjoying health. Efficient, creative, and on target, Picture Perfect Prescription leads us to our personalized path of wellness."

Mehmet Oz, M.D., author of Healing from the Heart, and Director, Cardiovascular Institute, Columbia University

 

"Finally...a tool that combines common sense with medical science to help people succeed at the four aspects of a happy and healthy life. It has worked for me and my family—and I will recommend it to my patients. Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Prescription is for anyone who's interested in living longer and feeling better!"

James H. Stein, M.D., Co-Director, Preventive Cardiology, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Section,  University of Wisconsin Medical School.

 

 "Dr. Shapiro brings a 'jump start,' boot camp approach to his Picture Perfect Plan."

George L. Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

 

 "This is a book for people who want to take charge of their health and feel their best. Dr. Shapiro shows us how."

Jeffrey I. Mechanick, M.D., endocrinologist and physician, nutrition specialist

 

 

Take a look at the contents of the book:

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments.......................................................................................xi

Chapter 1
Introduction: Take Eleven Days, Add Ten Years to Your Life..................1

Chapter 2

Manage your Stress...................................................................................23

Day 1: Discover where your stress is.
Day 2: Is it chronic or acute?
Day 3: Complete a "stress trigger" inventory
Day 4: Get in touch with the feelings that come from the stress you have.
Day 5: Learn not to catastrophize.
Day 6 Relax.
Day 7: Use positive self-talk.
Day 8: Think positive.
Day 9: Embrace pleasure.
Day 10: Feed your soul.
Day 11: Create something!

Chapter 3

Get up, Get out, Get Moving....................................................................73

Day 1: Determine what shape you are in.
Day 2: What do you want exercise to do for you?
Day 3: What kind of exercise do you prefer?
Day 4: Make a calendar of exercise commitment.
Day 5: Do push-ups to help develop upper-body strength.
Day 6: Do dips to further develop upper-body strength.
Day 7: Practice squats to develop lower-body strength.
Day 8: Learn to do side lunges for lower body strength.
Day 9: Do the plank for core-body strength.
Day 10: Practice opposite arm and leg extensions.
Day 11: Learn the power punch.

Chapter 4

Change Your Relationship with Food:

Loose weight and Stay Slim......................................................................131

Day 1: Try something new.
Day 2: Focus on fish.
Day 3: Send for soup; hail to whole grains
Day 4: Eat your Vegetables.
Day 5: Strive for the ideal.
Day 6: Lower your risk of disease.
Day 7: Lower your calorie intake.
Day 8: Eat the pyramid way.
Day 9: Three-Day Healthy Low-Carb Blitz 1
Day 10: Three-Day Healthy Low-Carb Blitz 2
Day 11: Three-Day Healthy Low-Carb Blitz 3

Chapter 5

Making the Connection.............................................................................199

Day 1: How's your social health?
Day 2: Get ready to get connected.
Day 3: Asses your connectedness capability.
Day 4: Change the tape in your head.
Day 5: Serve your community.
Day 6: Campaign for a cause.
Day 7: Make a spiritual connection.
Day 8: Connect to the natural world.
Day 9: Be with friends; reach out to family.
Day 10: Join something.
Day 11: Do for others.

Chapter 6

Day 12 and Beyond: Replenish and Rejuvenate --Feel Good,
Look Good, Be Good to Yourself..........................................................229


Resources................................................................................................242
References...............................................................................................245
Credits......................................................................................................247

Picture Perfect Prescription

by Dr. Howard Shapiro

Chamberlain Bros.

March 2005 / $27.50 / Hardcover / 256 pages

ISBN: 1-59609-052-9

 

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