The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook Wins Prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence

Friday, May 06, 2005

ROCHESTER, Minn. — This week The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook received top honors at a national awards gala in New York City. The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook was honored as the James Beard Foundation for Best Focus on Health Cookbook. Co-medical editors for the cookbook, Donald Hensrud, M.D. and Jennifer Nelson, M.S., R.D., accepted the award for Mayo Clinic. The 2005 James Beard Foundation Awards recognize excellence and achievement in the culinary profession.

"On behalf of all the people who worked on this book and Mayo Clinic, we want to thank the James Beard Foundation for this award," Dr. Hensrud said when accepting the award. "More and more, the public is interested in the relationships between diet, nutrition and health. We hope our book has demonstrated that eating healthy and eating well are not mutually exclusive terms."

The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook (Oxmoor House, ISBN0-8487-2758-4, $34.95) demonstrates that eating healthy can and should taste good. The cookbook takes a contemporary approach to cooking and follows the basic principles of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid. The cookbook includes 300+ pages with full-color photographs, 150 delicious and healthy recipes, a description of the Mayo Clinic Health Weight Pyramid, and suggestions for serving sizes, as well as tips and sample menus.

The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook is available by calling 877-647-6397 or visiting Bookstore.MayoClinic.com. Copies are also available in local bookstores. Revenue received from the sale of this book helps support Mayo Clinic's medical research and education programs.

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About the editor

Donald Hensrud, M.D., is a nutrition specialist and endocrinologist with Mayo Clinic. He also is the editor of the new book, Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for EveryBody (Mayo Clinic Health Information, soft cover, $22.95, April 2005). This new book focuses on the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid and answers your diet questions with its comprehensive and sensible approach to eating healthy.

Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for EveryBody

Based on their work with thousands of patients, Mayo Clinic physicians and dietitians have created a program to get you on your way to a healthy weight. Inside this 319-page book you will find:

The Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Food Pyramid — Confused about food choices and portion sizes? This easy-to-use, full-color visual tool helps guide your food choices and takes the mystery out of portion sizes. The pyramid is the foundation of a healthy-eating approach that's easy, filling, tasty — even adventurous.

The Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Program — Ready to lose weight and be healthier? This step-by-step program launches you on your way to a healthy lifestyle with 12 weeks of menus, shopping lists and recipes. No longer do you need to restrict your diet to a limited category of food. Choose from such great tasting dishes as Braised Chicken with Mushrooms and Pearl Onions, Greek Salad with Feta Cheese and Kalamata Olives, and Chocolate Pudding Pie.

An Action Guide to Weight-Loss Barriers — Do you dread going to the gym? This guide helps you identify your personal barriers to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and provides practical solutions to get over the rough spots. Learn about how consistent daily activity, not just traditional exercise, can contribute to your healthy weight.

Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for EveryBody is available for $22.95 (plus shipping, handling and applicable sales taxes) online at Bookstore.MayoClinic.com, by calling 866-516-4974 and in most bookstores nationwide.

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To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. MayoClinic.com is available as a resource for your health stories.