Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases

by Dean Ornish

To undo most chronic diseases (paraphrasing Michael Pollan): Eat real foods. Just plants. Not too much sugar or fat.

more intensive exercise had only incremental additional benefit in reducing mortality.

achieve most of the longevity benefits of exercise in only five minutes a day if you run instead of walk.

these benefits were about the same whether someone ran five minutes a day or thirty minutes a day, and even at a relatively leisurely pace of ten minutes a mile or slower.

It’s not a diet, it’s not even just a lifestyle—it’s your calling to enter into your deeper self, to live full-heartedly, to experience the rewards available to you by living in accord with your highest health and well-being.

I’m an Undo” (another reason we chose this book’s title). “Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. It’s there already until you disturb it.