The French Paradox and Beyond : living longer with wine and the Mediterranean lifestyle / by Lewis Perdue. With an Introduction and Chapters by: Keith Marton, M.D., F.A.C.P Chairman, Department of Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco Medical School and Wells Shoemaker, M.D., F.A.A.P. Practicing Pediatrician, Founder, Intensive Care Nursery, Watsonville Hospital.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perdue, Lewis.

Shoemaker, Wells, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Marton, Keith I., writer of introduction, author.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French Paradox.

Coronary heart disease--Prevention.

Coronary heart disease.

Wine--Health aspects.

Wine.

Diet--Mediterranean Region.

Diet.

Coronary heart disease--Diet therapy--Recipes.

Wine and wine making.

Coronary Disease--diet therapy.

Coronary Disease--prevention & control.

Diet Fads.

Coronary heart disease--Diet therapy.

Mediterranean Region.

Medical Subjects:

Coronary Disease--diet therapy.

Coronary Disease--prevention & control.

Diet Fads.

Wine.

Genre:

Recipes.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor) (inscription)

Perdue, Lewis (autograph)

Physical Description:

xv, 273, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Sonoma, Calif. : Renaissance Publishing, 1992.

Contents:

Part I. The Facts on Wine, Food and Health. 1. French paradox? No, no: it's an American paradox; 2. Leading a longer; disease-free life; Sidebar One. What is alcohol, anyway?; 3. What's all the fuss about?; Sidebar Two. What's a drink?; 4. What's wrong with intervention? Plenty!; 5. Aging gracefully with wine; Sidebar Three. Beware of "popular" alcohol advice; 6. Is it the wine or the food? Yes ... and no; Sidebar Four. Wine and diabetes; Sidebar Five. Wine and gout; 7. What's moderate consumption?; Sidebar Six. A moderation checklist; Sidebar Seven. Drunk driving; 8. Wine, beer or spirits: Is there a difference?; Sidebar Eight. Wine, like most fruit products, contains sulfites; 9. Reduce stress; live longer and enjoy it more; 10. The cultural models for healthy eating project; 11. Eat your fruits and veggies; 12. Healthy eating beings in the kitchen (Yours!); Sidebar Nine. A pantry for cooking ethnic cuisines; 13. How your government lies to you about alcohol; Sidebar Ten. The major goals of the new temperance movement; 14. The good, the bad and the drugly; 15. Alcohol abuse: defining it; avoiding it; 16. Alcohol and aspirin: risks and benefits.

Part II. Women, Alcohol & The Family. 17. Men, women and alcohol; 18. Alcohol and breast cancer; 19. Wine, pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome; 20. Breastfeeding and alcohol; 21. Keeping youth from abusing alcohol; Sidebar Eleven. One pediatrician's observations on preventing youth alcohol abuse

Part III. The Science of Wine and Health. 22. Avoiding junk science: how to make your own decisions; Sidebar Twelve. "Proving" a scientific impossibility; 23. Why do heart attacks happen?; 24. Cholesterol & fats: Jekyll and Hyde characters; 25. Why do coronary arteries clog up?; Sidebar Thirteen. Strokes of misfortune; 26. Cirrhosis and alcohol; Sidebar Fourteen. How alcohol helps prevent gallstones; 27. Alcohol and cancer; Sidebar Fifteen. Can wine fight cancer?; 28. Wine and lead

Part IV. The Cookbook. Eat easy, healthy & delicious. Thirty-nine brand-new recipes to get you started on eating in the Mediterranean style

Part V. About the Authors. Doctors, scientists and a journalist.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copies 1 & 2 are "Second Printing, August 1992".

Kislak copy 2 inscribed "To Fritz Blank. Here's to good health! Llewis Perdue 3/25/94".

Kislak copy 2 has ms. notes on "Lecture by Perdue" on [1] page at end.

Other Format:

Online version: Perdue, Lewis. French paradox and beyond.

ISBN:

0962527114

9780962527111

OCLC:

26160703