Leslie Beck - 10 Steps to Healthy Eating: Boost Energy, Manage Weight and Prevent Disease with the Right Foods

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.

Calgary Herald

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 for parents of young men and women.

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

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

Dr. Marla Shapiro, medical consultant, CTV

Leslie Beck offers indispensable advice for healthy living.

James F. Balch, M.D.

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

Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Womens Bodies,
Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

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

Homemakers

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

An easy-to-read, practical tool to help you on the path to healthier living.

Toronto Sun

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

The barrage of conflicting diet and nutrition schemes available could send the most deeply health-conscious person staggering toward the couch with a bag of taco chips. How refreshing to find the straight-up advice in Leslie Becks 10 Steps to Healthy Eating. Beck offers a process that lets readers make the changes they choose at their own pace, and launches them on the right path with a 14-day meal plan and more than 65 recipes.

Amazon.ca

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 Beck has done all of us a magnificent service by compiling so much practical and health-enhancing information in one place. This book should be in every home in North America.

Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Womens Bodies,
Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

Leslie Becks Nutrition Encyclopedia is a comprehensive, easy-tounderstand A-to-Z guide sure to be a welcome addition to everyones home health library.

Pauline Anderson, health and wellness editor, Canadian Living

Leslie Becks Nutrition Encyclopedia is a timely and informative resource. Beck, a registered dietician, isnt interested in fads or gimmicks; she presents sound, credible, up-to-date information and offers valuable advice on making the most of the foods we eat.

Amazon.ca

If youre pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant, Leslie Becks Nutrition Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy is a must-have in your home health library. Its filled with all the information you need to live healthily before and after the arrival of your precious bundle.

Pauline Anderson, health and wellness editor, Canadian Living

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

Toronto Sun

PENGUIN CANADA

10 STEPS TO HEALTHY EATING

LESLIE BECK , a registered dietitian, is a leading Canadian nutritionist and the bestselling author of eight 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 CJADs 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.

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

The Complete Nutrition Guide to Menopause

The No-Fail Diet

Foods That Fight Disease

10 STEPS
TO
HEALTHY
EATING

How to Boost Energy,
Manage Weight and
Prevent Disease with Food,
Diet and Nutrition

Leslie Beck RD

ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER

ANNE VON ROSENBACH, BA, MLS

PENGUIN CANADA

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