Product Description
As new condition white boards, red spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket.
Includes List of Other Books by Dean Ornish, M.
D.
; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography and About the Author.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and charts/graphs.
Signed by the author, Dean Ornish, M.
D.
, with blue pen at the center of the blank first free front endpaper.
"Dr.
Dean Ornish on the healing power of love and intimacy: "I am not aware of any other factor in medicine - not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery - that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness, and premature death from all causes.
" - from the rear outer jacket.
"This is the most important book ever written about love and health.
This book is filled with sparkling insights and practical wisdom about protecting health and enhancing wellness.
" - Andrew Weil, M.
D.
Relationships bring freedom and joy.
In Love and Survival, Dr.
Dean Ornish powerfully demonstrated that intimacy also can heal.
I am thrilled about this book!" - John Gray, Ph.
D.
, author.
"Love and survival.
What do they have to do with each other? This book is based on a simple but powerful idea: our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy, and relationships.
As individuals.
As communities.
As a country.
As a culture.
Perhaps even as a species.
For the past twenty years, Dean Ornish, M.
D.
, has directed clinical research, demonstrating - for the first time - that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease without drugs or surgery.
Now, this "impossible" idea hs become mainstream.
Although most people tend to think of Dr.
Ornish's program as being primarily about diet, he has found that perhaps the most powerful and meaningful intervention is love and intimacy and the emotional and spiritual transformation that often results.
Yet these factors are largely ignored by the medical profession, which tends to focus primarily on the physical and mechanistic: drugs and surgery, genes and germs, microbes and molecules.
Dr.
Ornish is a pioneer once more as he persuasively argues that love and intimacy are a root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing.
If a new drug had the same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be recommending it for their patients.
There is a deep spiritual hunger in this country as we approach the end of the twentieth century and a new millennium.
According to Dr.
Ornish, the real epidemic in our culture is what he calls emotional and spiritual heart disease, the profound sense of loneliness, isolation, alienation, and depression that are so prevalent today as the social structures that used to provide us with a sense of connection and community break down.
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