Leslie Beck - Foods That Fight Disease: A Nutrition Guide To Staying Healthy For Life

Praise for Leslie Beck

Canadas nutrition guru has mapped out a plan that guarantees a new you. If you follow her 12-week plan, you will lose weight. Period.

Calgary Herald

Packed with information on foods to avoid, those to eat more often, proper serving sizes, recipes and easy-to-implement suggestions for minimizing risk.

Best Health Magazine

One of the most sensible diet books out there.

The Georgia Straight

Adolescence is a critical period for developing healthy eating and exercise habits, and the guidance provided in this book is invaluable.

Chris Carmichael, personal coach to eight-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and author of Chris Carmichaels Food for Fitness

Covers the subject extensively ... Becks tools are based on a common sense approach to eating .

Daily Press (Timmins, Ontario)

Teenagers are constantly confronted with fast food, poor cafeteria choices and eating on the go. Healthy Eating for Teens and Preteens provides them with straightforward, useable tools for making the right food choices.

Dr. Marla Shapiro, medical consultant, CTV

Leslie Beck offers indispensable advice for healthy living.

James F. Balch, MD, co-author of The Prescription for Nutritional Healing

If youd like to eat more healthfully, Leslie Beck is a must-read.

Homemakers magazine

Leslie Beck, one of Canadas leading authorities on nutrition, has written another well researched, fabulously written and perfectly executed book, this time on boosting heart health. Its chock full of useful information and tips as well as scrumptious heart healthy recipes.

Pauline Anderson, family health editor, Canadian Living

[Becks] book offers plenty of sound nutrition information and evidence-based diet strategies that can help protect you from coronary heart disease. Its all about implementing a sustainable, heart healthy lifestyle. The tools in this book will help you achieve this.

Dr. Rob Myers, director of cardiology, Medcan Clinic

A comprehensive nutrition book aimed at teens that also includes terrific information for the whole family. It includes the most up-to-date information that will help your teen form a great foundation for a healthy lifestyle.

Sally Brown, CEO, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Parents and teens need all the help they can get, including nutrition advice. This book is so practical and thorough that I plan to share it with my daughter and son.

Linda Lewis, editor-in-chief, Todays Parent

It is a relief to have Leslie Becks well-researched, approachable and up-to-date guide to lifelong healthful eating.

Elizabeth Baird, Canadian Living

A very sensible approach to eating, diet and nutrition.

The London Free Press

Practical, easy to follow strategies to help transform your relationship with food.

The Hamilton Spectator

Trying to eat healthfully can be a daunting task. Advice is plentiful, but often conflicting or scientifically suspect. Enter Leslie Beck and Leslie Becks 10 Steps to Healthy Eating, a valuable home reference with a wealth of practical how-to strategies.

The Vancouver Sun

Leslie Beck has done a superb job of rounding up all the latest nutritional information to guide women healthfully through their menopausal years. Not only does she review the current scientific literature and make sense of itno mean featbut she also provides you with her expert dieticians opinion on everything a must-have for 40-plus women who want to make informed choices.

June Rogers, health editor, Chatelaine

Finally, a map that women can use to chart their voyage through menopause the natural way.

Marilyn Linton, health editor, Toronto Sun, and author of Taking Charge by Taking Care: A Canadian Guide to Womens Health

Leslie Beck has written the first book that specifically outlines the relationship between nutrition and certain symptoms associated with the peri- and post-menopausal years. This book can help alleviate stressful side effects of menopause and lower the risk of disease through diet and nutrition.

Rose Reisman, bestselling author of The Balance of Living Well

A guide for women of all ages seeking to manage their health and well-being.

Dr. Jean Marmoreo, National Post columnist, Dr. Jean Marmoreo on Middle-Aged Women

If you believe that we are what we eatand I doLeslie Becks Nutrition Guide for Women serves up food for thought and more to help you take charge of your own good health.

Charlotte Empey, editor-in-chief, Canadian Living

Leslie Becks 10 Steps to Healthy Eating contains everything you need to know to get healthy and stay healthy by eating right. The Getting Ready section is especially impressive and helpful!

Christiane Northrup, MD, author of

Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

If you are looking for a comprehensive resource Leslie Becks Nutrition Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy is a must-read.

Toronto Sun

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Foods That Fight Disease

LESLIE BECK, a registered dietitian, is a leading Canadian nutritionist and the bestselling author of seven nutrition books. Leslie writes a weekly nutrition column in The Globe and Mail, is a regular contributor to CTVs Canada AM, and can be heard one morning a week on CJAD Radios The Andrew Carter Show.

Leslie has worked with many of Canadas leading businesses and international food companies and runs a thriving private practice at the Medcan Clinic in Toronto. She also regularly delivers nutrition workshops to corporate groups across North America.

Visit Leslie Becks website at www.lesliebeck.com.

MICHELLE GELOK, BASc, is a Toronto-based nutritionist who completed her degree in Food and Nutrition at Ryerson University and is currently pursuing her dietetic internship at University Health Network in Toronto. Michelle has worked extensively with Leslie Beck since 2004. In that time, she developed recipes for two of Leslies books, The No-Fail Diet and Foods That Fight Disease. In addition to her passion for creating recipes, Michelle writes on nutrition and food for Leslies website, www.lesliebeck.com, and is a regular contributor to the health section of CBC online.

Also by Leslie Beck

Leslie Becks Nutrition Encyclopedia

Leslie Becks Nutrition Guide for Women

Leslie Becks Nutrition Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens

10 Steps to Healthy Eating

Leslie Becks Nutrition Guide to Menopause

The No-Fail Diet

Heart Healthy Foods for Life

The Complete AZ Nutrition Encyclopedia

The Complete Nutrition Guide for Women

FOODS
THAT
FIGHT
DISEASE

A NUTRITION GUIDE
TO STAYING HEALTHY
FOR LIFE

Leslie Beck, RD

Michelle Gelok, BASc, nutritionist
Recipe development and nutritional analysis

PENGUIN CANADA

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