The McDougall Program Cures People:
The Risk Factor Improvements Are Incidental

People are focused on their numbers, also known as risk factors – so here are the results for the first 307 people treated in the McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, CA.

All Popular Diets Are The Same - Failures

The Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets were studied to determine possible benefits for weight loss and heart disease risk reduction in a randomized trial lasting for one year.  The conclusions published in January of 2005 in the Journal of the American Medical Association were: "Each popular diet modestly reduced body weight and several cardiac risk factors at 1 year. Overall dietary adherence rates were low, although increased adherence was associated with greater weight loss and cardiac risk factor reductions for each diet group."1   These results suggest that it makes no difference which diet...

Report on Advanced Study Weekend with Dr. Heimlich

Many people attending the weekend considered the experience to be almost mystical – an experience never to be forgotten – the experience of being in the presence of and listening to the inspiring words of Dr. Henry Heimlich – the man who has saved more lives than anyone else in human history.

Featured Recipes

• Sweet Potato Beginnings
• Squashy Black Beans
• Tex-Mex Potatoes
• Stuffed Mushroom
• Sweet and Spicy Garbanzo Stew
• Polenta Torte