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April 11, 2014
“Best Health and Nutrition Book of this Century,” Amazon Review by Gary Massad, M. D. of Nancy Addison’s book: “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian”
Amazon Reviews of Nancy Addison’s book: “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian”
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5.0 out of 5 stars “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian,” August 28, 2012
By
Michael Hall, DC –
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian – wonderful book!!
Finally, a book that I can recommend to my patients without reservation. It is concise, well-written, and easy to follow.
Patients and consumers alike are inundated with the number of books, articles, and marketing that surround our eating habits.
This book easily puts the fundamental concepts into one place that anyone can understand and utilize. The recipes are tasty and can be made with relative ease.
For anyone wanting to make a positive and healthy change in their eating habits and their health this is the book for you!
5.0 out of 5 stars “Best Health and Nutrition Book of this Century,” August 27, 2012
By
Dr. Gary Massad – See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
“How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian” is an excellent book. Having had the opportunity to assist and promote health and nutrition with world-class athletes over the last 25 years; it is my opinion that Nancy Addison’s book is a formula for high-level performance in our daily lives. I can’t imagine a more informative book for the person looking to improve their health. The chapter about sugar is the most complete information available. Nancy is an expert in Nutrition. What you put on the end of your fork is more powerful medicine than anything you will find at the bottom of a pill bottle.”
Gary L. Massad M.D.
-First National Corporate Medical Director and founder of Occupational Health Centers in America. Attending physician to the Iron Man Hawaii; Attending Physician, United States Triathlon Association; Attending Physician United States Tae Kwon Do Association, Attending Physician United States Cycling Federation.
5.0 out of 5 stars “Fantastic Book,” October 31, 2013
By
Benjamin McKinley (San Antonio, TX, US) –
Amazon Verified Purchase
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
Two years ago I had a quadruple bi-pass, and my cardiologist told me that if I changed to a plant based diet, I would never have this problem again. Being from Texas, I grew up on meat and potatoes, and I was not compliant with his advice. I came across Nancy Addison’s book and it made perfect sense to me with the simple and understandable approach. I’m started off dropping all animal meat, including chicken, which has as much unhealthy fat as steak. Within a month I dropped 17 lbs, just doing that. My system is functioning a lot better, I’ve added more fruits and vegetables, and doubled my energy. I haven’t given up seafood, but maybe down the road I will take the next step. Brava Nancy for getting me to take the first step,and helping me create a new,healthier life!!!!!
Ben McKinley – Naples, FL.
5.0 out of 5 stars “FINALLY SOMETHING EASY TO UNDERSTAND!,” July 29, 2012
By
Eve Baughman (Camarillo, California United States) –
“This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
The thing I love about this book is it is clearly written and easy to understand! I’ve purchased so many books in the past that were supposed to be written for beginners in the vegetarian lifestyle, but ended up being geared toward people who were either scientists or well versed in what vegetarianism entails (when that was not what I was looking for or how it was marketed) and they didn’t do me much good! BUT THIS BOOK IS THE REAL DEAL! Reading it made me feel like the writer was personally guiding me through the things that are important for me to know. And it is full of a whole bunch of great (and easy) recipes too! I know several teens in my family who are experimenting with vegetarianism and I will be purchasing several copies of this book, so they will learn to do it in the right way from the beginning. Actually, it would make a great gift for anyone thinking about trying to become a little healthier by incorporating a few more vegies into their diet!”
5.0 out of 5 stars Lifestyle change and healthy eating….. Good News!, September 13, 2013
By
Bob Fanucchi (USA) –
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book. This information and recipes that Nancy has included was instrumental in getting back on the path of being healthy. Me being a vegetarian, well honestly I’m not all there yet… but I’m not done yet.
It’s still a challenge, but after reading her book, I am making better choices in food that I do eat. Using the choices and new recipes has and is instrumental in my weight loss too. It’s a great lifestyle change book and she goes in depth explanation of the benefits why we should change our diet.
I’ve been known carried this book into the groceries stores with me when I have shop. I buy organic foods and most of its all vegetables and then learning how to prepare them. It’s all in the book.
Our most important asset is our body and our health. So we need to get serious and Nancy puts in easy reading form what we need and how it works and how to do it.
5.0 out of 5 stars “This book has inspired me to get healthy!,” September 30, 2012
By
Amanda Addison (Dallas, Tx, US) –
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
I love this book for so many reasons! To begin with, it is the perfect tool for a busy, working person because it includes both the health information you need to know and quick and easy recipes for putting that information to use. I keep it in my kitchen where I can browse through it when I’m looking for something fast and healthy, and I’m able to refer back to the nutritional information whenever I have a question. It’s the perfect book for busy vegetarians who want to efficiently and easily stay healthy, and eat delicious food!
5.0 out of 5 stars “Best Health Book Ever,” September 30, 2012
By
S. Sclater “DART Rider” (Dallas, TX) –
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
“I bought the book, and have started reading it. Nancy breaks concepts about health down into easy to understand, thought-provoking words. I would highly recommend this book, even to us non-vegetarians, for the health benefits learned. And, oh my gosh, the food recipes are terrific!”
5.0 out of 5 stars “Healthy for LIFE!,” September 6, 2012
By
Lori Markman –
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
“Nancy Addison’s book on How to be a Healthy Vegetarian is a wonderful testimony to how she has lived her life!! I have know her since childhood, and she has always maintained a young radiance, a joyful attitude, and and healthy lifestyle. I am grateful that she has shared her vast knowledge for all of us to access. There is so much important information in this book that is easy to comprehend and adapt to your life. It is a great book for beginners and for those of us who eat healthy, yet need that extra push to incorporate more nutrition into our everyday lives. Nancy is living proof that a healthy lifestyle will keep you energetic and young! A must read!”
5.0 out of 5 stars “Something Meaningful For Every Person Interested in Nutrition,” August 25, 2012
By
Marsha Paisley –
“This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
Nancy Addison has done an incredible job summarizing a lifetime of experience with every facet of food and nutrition. From the garden to the table, be it vegetarian, vegan or raw, Nancy does it and she does it well. Even the preface is exciting! She has recipes for everyone from new renditions of traditional comfort foods to cutting edge raw dishes that will please even the toughest carnivore guests.
Nancy has put so much into this book and I believe it can and will help many people make changes that will improve their lives significantly. Not only does she tell the reader how and what to prepare, but she also provides a very comprehensive resource section, so that no matter where you live in the country you will have access to everything you need. Great book!!”
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5.0 out of 5 stars How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian is a GREAT Resource, August 12, 2012
By
Adele Good –
This review is from: How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian (Paperback)
“How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian is an awesome tool for even non-vegetarians! I found the information on Protein and Sugar to be very useful. It is great to have a this resource to support us on our path to Radiant Health.
Kudos to the author! Thank you for this great compilation.”
Thank you everyone who took the time and energy to write reviews for my book!
April 4, 2014
What We Put On Our And Our Baby’s Body Matters! by Nancy Addison
What We Put On Our And Our Baby’s Body Matters!
One day, when my children were small, I read some information on how the innocent Minnie Mouse Bubble Bath, I had just bathed my children in, could cause blindness. I was so alarmed. I started researching everything in my bathroom and reading ingredients on everything. I couldn’t believe the US government would allow toxin and carcinogenic ingredients in my and my children’s toothpaste, bubble bath, shampoo, etc.
I went through my bathroom cabinets and read all the ingredients. Because of that, I threw out almost everything that was in my and my children’s bathroom! Since then, I have been very careful about what I put on my body and my children’s.
The ingredients to look for are:
1. DEA or Diethanolamine- an ingredient used in many household and personal products like shampoo, bubble bath, lotions, detergents for laundry or dishwashing. DEA is a known toxin in industrial applications, now proven to cause cancer when applied to the skin of rats. DR.Samuel Epstein, author of “The Safe Shopper’s bible and founder of The American Coalition to Prevent Cancer and a leading authority on toxicology, issued a strong warning about the use of cocamide DEA or lauramide DEA. Many products contain these ingredients and don’t have warnings on them.
2. Propylene Glycol – an ingredient (main) in anti -freeze, hydraulic fluids and used as a solvent. It is also in pet food, lotions, shampoos, toothpastes, deodorants, processed foods, etc. This is a colorless, hygroscopic liquid has been tested by the American Academy of Dermatologists and found it causes skin irritation at low levels. it can be harmful if inhaled, ingested or absorbed into the skin. It can cause nausea, headaches, central nervous system depression, eye irritation, skin irritation, and gastrointestinal disturbances.
3. “SLS or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate- found in detergents, concrete cleaners, engine degreasers, etc. SLS is used in clinical studies to irritate skin tissue. It corrodes hair follicles and impairs ability to grow hair. When combined with other nitrogen bearing ingredients, carcinogenic nitrates can form. SLS enters the and maintains residual levels in the heart, liver, lungs and brain from skin contact. (shampoos?)” (2)
4. Talc- is similar to asbestos. ” Talc may result in fallopian tube fibrosis with resultant infertility. Question raised by Doctors Kasper and Chandler in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 3/15/95. “Talc’s harmful effect on human tissue has been known for quite some time. Long ago, its dry lubricating properties were used as a glove-donning powder (easy to glide on) for surgical gloves. As early as the 1930′s, Talc was linked to post-operative granulomatous peritonitis and fibrous adhesions.” (3)
5. Alcohol used in many mouthwashes. “Mouthwashes with a content of higher than 25% or higher have been implicated in mouth, tongue and throat cancers.” (4)
Many people ask me what I put on my body and use for make up. I will never forget reading that lipstick has things like lead in it. So now, I use a certified organic make-up and skin care line by NYR Organic.
What we put on our skin, our largest organ, is absorbed right into the blood stream, so it is important to use safe and toxin free products.
I love this English company’s certified organic make-up, body care, baby products, essential oils, etc. They are also having some April and mother’s day specials. People ask me what I wear. This is where I order my make up, soaps, shampoos, essential oils, etc. I love the rose and frankincense products. The baby oil, shampoo and things are terrific. Right now they are having a couple of specials for April and Mother’s Day.
Here is the link for NYR Organic’s site:
Click Here
If you have a health business, you can become a distributor and have it as part of your business.
The mouthwash I use and love is from Young Living an essential oil company.I have loved it and use it frequently. It is a combination of anti viral, anti bacterial essential oils. It is called Thieves. it got it’s name from a band of thieves who would cover themselves with oil and then go rob the dead people who had died of the Plague. They never got the plague or died. So, the name of this combination is thieves. Here is the link to that site: Click here.
So, in conclusion, read ingredient labels and become savvy in protecting you and your family from toxic chemicals in your daily life.
Resources:
Rub A Dub Dub…Is Cancer In Your Tub. Published by Network News and Publications 1999. Young Living Oils brochure. Website: https://www.youngliving.org/oils4well...
1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program- NTP TR 478. Two year study concluded 1997.
2. Rub A Dub Dub…Is Cancer In Your Tub. Published by Network News and Publications 1999. Young Living Oils brochure. Website: https://www.youngliving.org/oils4well...
3. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 3/15/95 from the Nutrition Health Review , Summer 1995 n73 p.8
and U. S News and World Report, March 17, 1997, v122 n10 p 77.
4. National Cancer Institute 4/22/91
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March 30, 2014
Chef and Nutrition Expert- Nancy Addison is interviewed at the International Chef’s Food Festival in Green Turtle Cay
Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas Has International Food Festival
Nancy Addison attended the international food festival in Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas this week.
Yachting around the Bahamas lead her group to some exciting activities. Nancy met Tom Fleming, a chef from Dallas, TX. Kevin Taylor of Nassau, with Dream Katcher TV interviewed Nancy, while she attended the event.
It is a beautiful island and here is the link for the event.
(Dallas Chef) Tom Fleming and ( International Chef, Nutrition Expert and Author) Nancy Addison pictured here at Opening reception, at the Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas, Coco Beach, Food Festival
Candia, Kevin Taylor ( Dream Katcher TV), Adele and (nutrition expert, chef and author )Nancy Addison. Kevin and Cadia interviewed Nancy Addison for the Nassau news.
March 9, 2014
Eat Like A Cow and Be As Strong As An Ox!

Wheatgrass
I am going with a green theme this week in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. In step with that, I am going to expand on green food today.
The amazing health benefits of using wheatgrass for healing were brought to the public’s attention by Ann Wigmore in The Wheatgrass Book: How to Grow and Use Wheat grass to Maximize Your Health and Vitality.
When I started learning about cleansing, some 25 years ago, I started learning about the amazing positive effects grasses have on our body. I learned about barley grass as well as wheatgrass.
The chlorophyll- rich grasses have enormous amounts of anti-oxidants and are highly alkalizing. There are so many benefits for consuming juice freshly extracted from grasses.
Here are some of the benefits, according to Ann Wigmore.
Wheatgrass juice can:
1. When externally applied to the skin, help eliminate itching almost
immediately.
2. Soothe sunburned skin and act as a disinfectant.
3. When rubbed into the scalp before a shampoo, help mend damaged hair and alleviate itchy, scaly scalp conditions.
4. Soothe and heal cuts, burns, scrapes, rashes, poison ivy, athlete’s foot, insect bites, boils, sores, open ulcers, tumors, and so on. (Use as a poultice and replace every two to four hours.)
5. Return gray hair to its natural color.
6. Greatly increase energy levels when consumed daily.
7. When the juice is consumed, act as a beauty treatment that slows down the aging process.
8. Wheat grass will cleanse your blood and help rejuvenate aging cells, slowing the aging process way down and making you feel more alive right away. It will help tighten loose and sagging skin.
9. Lessen the effects of radiation. One enzyme found in wheat grass, SOD, lessens the effects of radiation and acts as an anti-inflammatory compound that may prevent cellular damage following heart attacks or exposure to irritants.
10. Restore fertility and promote youthfulness.
Many health clinics in the United States today (like the Ann Wigmore Foundation and Retreat Center, Hippocrates Institute, Tree of Life, and Optimum Clinic, just to name a few) use wheatgrass as a mainstay basic of their healing programs. The grass is high in anti-oxidants, oxygenates the blood, and is nutrient-dense. It is such an easy and simple healing modality.
So, this year, contemplate drinking a little fresh wheat grass juice.
When you think of it,
if you eat like a cow,
you can be as strong as an ox!
by Nancy Addison CHC, AADP copyright@nancyaddison2013
Cancer Support Community at Presbyterian Hospital with Speaker Nancy Addison, Nutrition Expert, Motivational Speaker and Healthy Chef

speaker- Nancy Addison with representatives of the Lymphoma Research Foundation
Nancy Addison presented a class for the Cancer Support Community at Presbyterian Hospital and the Lymphoma Research Foundation on Making Healthy Eating Delicious.

Chef/ speaker/ author/ nutrition expert- Nancy – giving cooking Instructions for Presbyterian Hospital”s Cancer support community

Author of How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian, Nancy Addison, signed books for audience members of the Cancer Support Community who attended her speech at Presbyterian Hospital on Healthy Eating Can Be Delicious!
August Highlights w nancy ‘s class highlighted and w lymphona research foundation
Cancer Support Community at Presbyterian Hospital where Speaker Nancy Addison, Nutrition Expert and Healthy Chef spoke about how to eat healthier. The Lymphoma Research Foundation sponsored this presentation.
I loved speaking for this group. I have been contributing to their newsletter with healthy tips.
My next program is a lunch and learn about Eating Through Side Effects.
February 26, 2014
Nancy Addison Is Having Rejuvenation Retreats at Redonda Beach, Nicaragua
I am having a marvelous time at Redonda Beach in Nicaragua.
I have enjoyed seeing gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, eating fresh food, meeting fun new people.
I have loved it so much, I am going to start having rejuvenation retreats here this spring.
I’ll put the information in my next months newsletter!
You’ll want to be at this event!
February 12, 2014
Nancy Addison has just been named Associate Program Director for the non-profit Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation of Texas.

Nancy Scuba Diving
Dr. Anitra Thorhaug working with Sea Grasses at Long Island
Nancy Addison has just been named Associate Program Director for the non-profit Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation of Texas
Nancy donates a good deal of time to charity work. One of Nancy’s passions is saving the environment.
Nancy has just been named Associate Program Director for the non -profit Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation of Texas. Nancy is helping to implement education programs in school that teach about environmental sustainability of the oceans, plant and fish life ecosystems. Nancy is helping to raise money for restoring the coastal areas of the world. They are starting with Texas coasts. President, Dr. Anitra Thorhaug, who teaches at Yale Univeristy and is known to be the greatest sea grass expert today, has implemented the most successful sea grass restoration /gardening work to date. Nancy wants to help save the oceans. They are in such a decimated condition.These grass restoration projects will help with the global climate by taking carbon out of the air. Contact Nancy if you are interested in working or helping with this project.
February 10, 2014
Celebration Magazine Has New Health and Nutrition Columnists: Nancy Addison and Maryann De Leo
Celebration Magazine Has New Health and Nutrition Columnist!
Celebration Magazine has a new health and nutrition column and it is written by Chef and Nutrition Expert Nancy Addison and Academy Award-Winning
Documentary Filmmaker, Maryann De Leo. They recently released their book, Alive
and Cooking – An Easy Guide to Health for You and Your Parents, which
provides more than 100 easy, healthful, and budget-friendly recipes,
health tips and shopping resource guide to aid all in creating a
nutritional plan best suited for older adults.
What a great month to start our column! The month we celebrate love,
cooking is love – expressed through food.
Leeann Lavin, who wrote the forward to our book, said, “Food is love.”
We could not agree more! We’d like to think as food as the celebration
of life and love!
I always say: The Main Ingredient Is Always Love! and the title of our column this month for February is:
The Main Ingredient Is Love
That makes me so happy!
Our recipe is our chocolate chip cookie recipe on page 246 and 247 where we use Garbanzo bean flour!
It is delicious with a healthy twist!
Sending you heart felt hugs for February!
February 8, 2014
Heart Health by Nancy Addison CHHC,AADP
Heart Health
Today is the American Heart Association’s Day to bring awareness of heart disease to society. February is the month where we celebrate love. So it is the perfect time to spread awareness about this terrible disease.
Heart Disease kills 1,100 women a day. One in every 4 deaths a year are from heart disease. So, because of this, in this month’s newsletter, I am going to address heart disease.
I’m a vegetarian and wrote the book, “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian.” I have been a vegetarian for over 27 years, because I had a great many family members die of heart disease, strokes and cancer. So, honoring today, I thought I would discuss this briefly.
Years ago, I took a Cornell University course on the plant-based diet. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, who participated in the China Study and wrote “The China Study” and Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. M. D. who wrote “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” were two of the professors that taught the course.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell as well as Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn (a former surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, -known as the number one heart clinic in the world) believes that by changing the diet, heart disease can be completely cured and prevented. In our class Dr. Esselstyn explained that cardiology has only focused on treating the symptoms and not the cause.
Dr. Esselstyn explained that a plant-based diet with only a minimum of limited/low healthy fats can not only prevent and stop progression of heart disease, but also reverse it. He explained that his scientific studies show with irrefutable scientific evidence that by changing to a plant based diet, heart disease can be prevented and the epidemic eradicated.
His drew evidence in his results testing with his own patients. He taught that despite the treatments the patients had already received, like bypass surgery or angioplasties, 5 of the original group of 17 had been told by their physicians that they would probably only have about a year to live. Of the group of 17, there had been at least 49 cardiac events leading up to this study.
Dr. Esselstyn’s 20 year clinical study comprised of 17 compliant patients on his plant based/low fat diet program the health improvement was dramatic. The patients cholesterol dropped, their anginia symptoms and blood flow improved dramatically. Within the 12 years, his 17 patients had no further cardiac events. The patients that stuck with the program survived beyond 20 years, free of symptoms. Anglograms taken of the patients showed a widening of the coronary arteries thus, a reversal of the disease. This study showed one of the most profound drop in cholesterol ever documented in a medical study.
So, if you think that heart disease just happens and that there is nothing you can do about it, then try switching to a plant based / low fat diet and see if that would work for you. It is a lot easier than you think. It just takes a new mindset, a few guide-lines, good recipes and a will to do it.
Last year was my 40th high school reunion. One of my classmates who had heart disease was told by his physician, that if he switched to a plant based diet he would never have to worry about having a heart attack again. He bought my book and has made some changes to move toward a plant-based diet.
I am so happy for him. Here is what he said about my book:
“Two years ago I had a quadruple bi-pass, and my cardiologist told me that if I changed to a plant based diet, I would never have this problem again. Being from Texas, I grew up on meat and potatoes, and I was not compliant with his advice. I came across Nancy Addison’s book and it made perfect sense to me with the simple and understandable approach. I’m started off dropping all animal meat, including chicken, which has as much unhealthy fat as steak. Within a month I dropped 17 lbs, just doing that. My system is functioning a lot better, I’ve added more fruits and vegetables, and doubled my energy. I haven’t given up seafood, but maybe down the road I will take the next step. Brava Nancy for getting me to take the first step, and helping me create a new, healthier life!!!!!”
- Ben McKinley – Naples, FL
So, in closing, what we eat in life is a choice. If you have heart disease, you may think about how the food you are eating is directly affecting your health.
I think of everyone who receives my newsletter as my dear friend and I love keeping in touch with you and adore hearing from you. Today, I am sending you big hugs and blessings for a healthy, loving heart this February and may you have a wonderful month full of health and love.
Copyright@nancyaddison2014
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January 23, 2014
New Health/ Nutrition/ Food Columnists for Celebration Magazine- Nancy Addison and Maryann De Leo
Maryann and I just finished writing our monthly article for the Celebration magazine’s February Issue.
We are very excited about being there health and nutrition columnists!
This month we are doing our introduction column and it is for February,
so our theme is Food, Family and Love!