The Fresh 5: The Five Ingredients for Happy, Healthy Living

Feel great, lose weight, heal your body, and achieve life-long wellbeing--In The FRESH 5, Harvard-trained physician and chef, Dr. Robert Graham and Certified Health Coach Julie Graham teach you to optimize the five pillars of wellbeing (Food, Relaxation, Exercise, Sleep, and Happiness) through a whole-body, plant-based, food-as-medicine program to holistically heal body and mind while promoting weight loss and positive health outcomes for chronic conditions. "Dr. Robert Graham offers a recipe for optimizing personal health and happiness. The FRESH 5 is a formula for a better future, and a better medicine." --David Katz, MD It used to be that food was our medicine. These days, it seems, we've made it overly complicated. We talk about "wellness" but we're not really sure where to start. We're confused about what we eat and why we eat it. We're so stressed we don't know how to unwind, which only makes it harder to motivate ourselves to exercise. We can't sleep. And, to top it all off, we're depressed, anxious, and burned out. As the child of a Latina mother and herbal healer, Dr. Robert Graham grew up knowing that one of the best things you can do for your health is to cook. Distressed by the "pill for an ill" paradigm he saw in medical school and remembering his mother's wisdom, Dr. Graham completed culinary school, becoming one of only about two dozen physicians worldwide who are also certified, trained professional chefs. Now in The FRESH 5 he and his wife (herself a certified health coach and yoga expert) share their holistic back-to-basics approach to help readers leverage the power of culinary medicine and positive psychology to transform their health for good. With their expert guidance, readers will discover the five key ingredients for a lifetime of health: -FOOD -RELAXATION -EXERCISE -SLEEP -HAPPINESS Whether you are looking to lose weight, reduce stress, get in shape, sleep better, or just feel happier, The FRESH 5 is the guide you need to strengthen your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, perfect for readers of The Happiness Diet , Superlife , and Bright Line Eating.