The CSIRO Healthy Heart Program - Manny Noakes & Peter Clifton new softcover book

The CSIRO Healthy Heart Program

by Dr Manny Noakes and Dr Peter Clifton

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New softcover book, 280 pages, published 2008.

From the team who created The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet

This book is your comprehensive guide to the CSIRO's CLIP (Complete Lifestyle Program) eating and exercise plan, which is designed to look after the health of your whole cardiovascular system and help you reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and other complications of obesity. Following the winning formula we all know and love from the popular Total Wellbeing Diet books, this book includes:

• information on heart disease risks and how to avoid them
• the full CLIP eating plan with both higher-protein and higher-carbohydrate options
• 12 weeks of full menu plans, including advice for vegetarians
• a simple but very effective exercise plan, and
• more than 100 delicious recipes.

About the authors.

Associate Professor Manny Noakes is the stream leader for the Diet and Lifestyle program at CSIRO Human Nutrition, a multidisciplinary team of nutritionists, psychologists and exercise physiologists engaged in developing innovative programs for improving healthy lifestyle behaviour among Australians. Manny also manages clinical trials that provide scientific evidence for the efficacy of diet and exercise programs on health. Manny has published over 100 scientific papers, with a major emphasis on diet composition, weight-loss and cardiovascular health. She is a senior lecturer in the School of Medicine, Flinders University, affiliate senior lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, and affiliate associate professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide.

Professor Peter Clifton is the scientific director for clinical nutrition, obesity and related conditions at CSIRO Human Nutrition. He is also professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, and practises as an endocrinologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Flinders Medical Centre. Peter is a frequent and sought-after speaker at national and international conferences and is also widely published in the areas of diet, functional foods and heart health. His personal research interests are diet, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and optimal diets for people with insulin resistance and diabetes.

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The CSIRO Healthy Heart Program by Dr Manny Noakes with Dr Peter Clifton