The Rice Diet Renewal - by Kitty Gurkin Rosati (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Rice Diet Solution - a practical 30-day plan for inner healing and lasting weight loss

Since 1939, the world-renowned Rice Diet has been one of the most medically sound, effective, and sustainable weight loss programs, with 43% of participants maintaining their weight loss after six years. Now, building on the Rice Diet's success, The Rice Diet Renewal goes beyond what you eat to help you heal the roots of the emotional, mental, and spiritual underpinnings that often get in the way of achieving and maintaining weight loss.

• Gives you the framework you need to break down the psychological and behavioral barriers to sustainable weight loss
• Presents a scientifically based 4-step foundation for Cleansing Your Body, Healing Your Heart, Empowering Your Mind, and Connecting with Your Spirit
• Offers the latest science needed to transcend a limiting diet perspective, to a sustainable dieta, a way of life that promotes optimal weight and health
• Gives you practical, active tools to meet weight-loss and health goals, such as music therapy, journaling, creative exercises like dream boards and other deep healing therapeutic approaches including emotional freedom technique (EFT)
• Includes inspiring stories of Ricers who have found weight-loss success, sometimes after years of failure with traditional diets
• Provides a 4-week menu of seasonal, organic, local foods, naturally low in saturated fat, sodium, and sugar, empowering you with the desire for conscious consumption

Going far deeper than diet, The Rice Diet Renewal empowers you to change the thoughts and beliefs that may have limited your weight-loss success in the past so that you can reach the weight, healing, and life goals you desire at last.

From the Back Cover

A Practical 30-Day Plan for Lasting Weight Loss and Inner Healing

Many diets can help you lose a significant amount of weight in a short period, but only the Rice Diet can boast that 43 percent of its participants have maintained or increased their weight loss over six years. Now, in The Rice Diet Renewal, Kitty Gurkin Rosati, New York Times bestselling author of The Rice Diet Solution, presents the essentials of the four-step Rice Diet program. Rosati explains how it helps you heal your underlying food and health issues and replace negative, powerless thinking with an awakened awareness of your passion and purpose. Then she introduces a new generation of powerful exercises and tools based on the latest research including energetic healing methods, music, art, quantum physics, aromatherapy, and more. You'll discover a new world of health and happiness with the help of:

• A four-step program for Cleansing Your Body, Healing Your Heart, Empowering Your Mind, and Connecting with Your Spirit
• The framework you need to break down psychological and emotional barriers to sustainable weight loss
• A sustainable dieta, a way of life that promotes optimal weight and health in a mindful, emotional, and spiritual way
• Practical, active tools to meet weight-loss and health goals
• A four-week menu of seasonal, local foods, low in saturated fat, sodium, and sugar, empowering you with the practice of conscious consumption
• Inspiring stories of "Ricers" who have achieved weight-loss success and inner healing breakthroughs

As you become more physically free of excess weight, clear of mind, and liberated of encumbering emotional baggage, you will connect with and learn to actualize your inner power, fueling the attainment and maintenance of your goal weight, optimal health, and life's potential.

Review Quotes

The Rice Diet Renewal is filled with wisdom and information that can help to heal and renew your life. It guides the reader on the true path to healing of one's life and becoming your authentic self. I know from my experience as a physician that it speaks the truth, and if you have the inspiration, the information it provides will lead you to the transformation you desire."-Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Faith, Hope, and Healingand 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

"The Rice Diet Renewal is an immensely wise guide to weight loss and sensible nutrition. If you think 'diet' is only what goes in your mouth, you seriously should consider this book. It touches all the important bases--not only food intake but also the psychological, social, and spiritual factors that are also vital factors in nutrition. Highly recommended.--Larry Dossey M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions and Healing Words

"Rosati skillfully describes the successful mind-body-spirit approach to weight loss that she pioneered with the Rice Diet. She has made the program into much more than a diet by adding the psychospiritual components that are missing from so many weight-loss plans."--Larry Burk, M.D., C.E.H.P., president of Healing Imager, Inc. and former director of education and cofounder of Duke Integrative Medicine

"Beautiful and practical.. . . Speaking from deep personal and professional experience, Rosati offers us a banquet of inspiration and an extraordinary variety of useful methods for healing and transforming body, heart, mind, and spirit." --Jeffrey Brantley, M.D., D.F.A.P.A., director, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program, Duke Integrative Medicine

About the Author

KITTY GURKIN ROSATI, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., author of the New York Times bestselling The Rice Diet Solution, Heal Your Heart, and The Rice Diet Cookbook, has worked in the field of weight-related disease prevention and reversal for two and a half decades. She is the nutrition director of the Rice Diet Program, has been a clinical instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has counseled diverse populations including drug and alcohol rehabilitation patients and IBM and Glaxo executives.