The Healthspan Solution: How and What to Eat to Add Life to Your Years

by Raymond J. Cronise and Julieanna Hever M.S., R.D.

Fancy optimizing your health and living a longer and fuller life with plant-based recipes?
Then this may be the book for you! 

Looking to adopt a healthy vegetarian diet this New Year but don’t know where to start?
No worries, we’ve got you covered!

Authors and leading plant-based nutrition experts Julieanna Hever and Ray Cronise have spent over a decade researching diet and nutrition, analyzing longevity studies, and helping their clients achieve sustainable, lasting health benefits by adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet.

So what are you waiting for? Dive straight in to discover:
- 100 delicious and nutritious plant-based recipes for the whole family to love
- Evidence-based research on the scientific underpinnings of the healthspan diet
- Easy-to-follow guidelines simplify food choices without being restrictive
- Beautifully photographed recipes offer options and flexibility 

In The Healthspan Solution, they share the simple and effective diet that has allowed their clients to lose weight, reverse disease, reduce or eliminate medication use, and achieve optimal health.

This healthy recipe cookbook examines the health risks posed by typical Western eating habits and explains how a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices can lead to lower blood pressure, a healthy gut, weight loss and longer life expectancy.  

Their flexible, customizable approach to eating challenges the conventional idea of breakfast, lunch, and dinner and focuses instead on soups, salads, sides, and sweets. With 100 delicious recipes to choose from, this healthy cookbook ensures that adopting a plant-based lifestyle is simple and sustainable. 

Still not sure? Check out our riveting reviews below and discover just how much The HealthSpan Solution has changed people’s lives for the better!

“Ray and Julieanna didn’t write a fad diet book. It’s about making a permanent lifestyle transformation. The magic is I still can eat anything I want. The trick is what I want has profoundly changed. They did the trick for me and saved my life—now let them help you.”—Penn Jillette, Las Vegas entertainer and magician

“Ray is a scientific visionary and Julieanna is a master of nutrition. Together they’ve written a fact-based recipe book for longevity that belongs in every kitchen. Buy it.”—David Sinclair, PhD, AO, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
 
“Working with Julieanna and Ray has given me a profoundly new understanding of how food impacts health and how what we eat is often dictated by social influences. I’m excited to be a part of their effort to push to this message out to a far bigger audience.”—Cyan Banister, angel investor and entrepreneur

“Julieanna and Ray are an incredible team. While others have sought to demonstrate the adequacy of an exclusively plant-sourced diet, they teach how it can be superior and mimics longevity research.”—Rich Roll, plant-powered ultra athlete and author

• ISBN10: 1465490078
• ISBN13: 9781465490070
• Publish Date: 17 December 2019
• Publish Status: Remaindered
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
• Imprint: Alpha
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781465490070

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

The Healthspan Solution is a diet guide with recipes aimed at increasing the quality of lifespan by improving lifestyle/diet choices. Due out 17th Dec 2019 from Penguin/Random House on their DK imprint, it's 256 pages and will be available in hardcover format.

There is a bewildering plethora of diet advice out there suggesting that eating one thing or avoiding another will improve your health and prolong your life. This book takes a more holistic view and provides some interesting fact based reasoning for following a plant based diet in order to reap a longer healthier lifespan with a slower decline than most western based (meat heavy) diets.

The book's introductory chapters give an overview over society's change from a crisis of under-nutrition and the struggle to acquire enough food to survive to the current situation of over-abundance in much of the world, and an overabundance of cheaper, easier, less nutrient dense (wrong) foods. The authors also spend a fair bit of time and effort explaining the biological changes in aging and maturation, the idea of health optimization by lifestyle and diet choices, and other biochemical processes involved in metabolic processes and how they are affected by aging. Roughly 40% of the page content is used exploring the available research and explaining some of the biology involved. They do an admirable job of making the science interesting and layman accessible.

The introductory chapters are followed by recipes arranged thematically: soups, salads, sides, sweets, and sauces. Each of the recipes includes an introductory description, ingredients listed in a bullet point sidebar (US measurements only, no metric conversions), and step by step instructions. There is no nutritional info provided. The recipes are photographed very well and clearly, with roughly 50% of the dishes shown in a photograph. Serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate.

The recipe ingredients themselves are mostly easily sourced and will be available at well stocked grocery stores along with some ingredients being found in international/Asian markets (kombu, nori, etc). The book does include a solid cross referenced index which includes ingredients.

The book also includes an impressive links/annotations/resources list which will give readers a rich source for further investigation.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.