Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-3149-7 • Hardback • June 2020 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-3631-7 • eBook • June 2020 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
Candice P. Rosen, RN, MSW, CHC, is a registered nurse based in Los Angeles, CA. As the founding member of Gilda’s Club Chicago and its first executive director and program director, she created and coordinated a diverse array of wellness-related programs. She was appointed by Mayor Richard Daley to serve as Chair of Healthcare Initiatives for Chicago’s Sister Cities International Program (CSCIP). CSCIP provided an opportunity to advocate for preventive medicine, improve maternal and infant healthcare, stress disability access, promote nourishing diets, and bring awareness to the obesity and diabetes epidemics that now affect populations on a global level. She is married and the mother of four adult children and grandmother to a precious granddaughter.
Note to the Reader - Challenging a Deluded Nation
SECTION I –THE BASICS
Chapter One – What Happens When I Eat?
Chapter Two – How Do High Glucose and Insulin Affect Weight & Health?
Chapter Three – Hormones, Stress and Weight
SECTION II – DATA DRIVEN FUELING
Chapter Four – Data Driven Fueling Guidelines
Chapter Five – The Data Driven Fueling Lifestyle
Chapter Six – The Data Driven Fueling Program
Chapter Seven – A Day in The Life of Data Driven Fueling
Chapter Eight – The Data Driven Fueling Calendar
SECTION III – OTHER ISSUES AFFECTING WEIGHT AND HEALTH
Chapter Nine – Behavior Modification
Chapter Ten – Movement
Chapter Eleven - The Importance of Sleep
Chapter Twelve – Sabotage
Chapter Thirteen - Addictions Other Than Food: Drugs and Alcohol
SECTION IV – Data Driven Fueling Toolbox
Chapter Fourteen – Basic Food Combining
Chapter Fifteen - The Anatomy of a Meal
Chapter Sixteen - Meal Choices
Chapter Seventeen - The Importance of Journaling and Meal Discovery Cards
Chapter Eighteen – What to do With a High Glucose Number
Chapter Nineteen – Vitamins
Chapter Twenty - What to do if You Hit a Plateau
Chapter Twenty-One - Eating Out of Your Element: College and Travel
Chapter Twenty-Two – Recipes and Juice Fasts
Despite the title, unlimited pizza, potato chips, and chocolate cake are not on the menu. Rosen, a registered nurse with a master’s degree in social work, tries to empower failed dieters by warning that excess pounds increase the risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, sleep apnea, and osteoarthritis....[T]here is much sound and useful information here for everyone searching for diet guidance.
— Booklist
Candice Rosen--nurse, social worker and clinical health educator--talks directly to you whether you are a woman, man, or a family who needs to adapt a new lifestyle. The nutritional science in this book is fascinating and the recommendations highly relatable. The personal stories and insights of the author's own journey to create her science-based Data Driven Fueling program help establish a healthy lifestyle so you can live and live better.— Marla A. Mendelson, MD, Director, Women's Cardiovascular Health Program of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine