The Yoga of Eating Great and Losing Weight

This fun book shares the true story of a girl's father who was able to lower his cholesterol by diet alone without having to take cholesterol-lowering medications. After Jahnavi's father had emergency double bypass heart surgery, she was determined to never let her father's arteries get clogged again. Knowing that her father doesn't like bland, boring food, Jahnavi decided to make all his favorite foods fat-free: such as fat-free pizza, fat-free lasagna, fat-free tacos, fat-free cupcakes and fat-free nachos. Surprisingly, in just two months her father's cholesterol level dropped from 250 mg/dl to 150 mg/dl without medication. Then another happy thing unexpectedly happened when Jahnavi's father started eating whole grains and eliminated the oil and butter from his diet. He lost excess weight without even trying. He dropped 20 pounds while eating fun food like fat-free donuts and fat-free pizza. Jahnavi's father doesn't count calories and eats as much as he feels like. Eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans helps you become slim. This is how he effortlessly lost weight and easily keep it off. Jahnavi's book shares countless medical studies by physicians like Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. John McDougal showing the link between high fat consumption and major diseases like heart disease, cancer, adult diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. You can truly prevent and even reverse major killers such as heart diseases just by giving your food a makeover. You can have your cake and eat it, too!

This fun book shares the true story of a girl's father who was able to lower his cholesterol by diet alone without having to take cholesterol-lowering medications. After Jahnavi's father had emergency double bypass heart surgery, she was determined to never let her father's arteries get clogged again. Knowing that her father doesn't like bland, boring food, Jahnavi decided to make all his favorite foods fat-free: such as fat-free pizza, fat-free lasagna, fat-free tacos, fat-free cupcakes and fat-free nachos. Surprisingly, in just two months her father's cholesterol level dropped from 250 mg/dl to 150 mg/dl without medication. Then another happy thing unexpectedly happened when Jahnavi's father started eating whole grains and eliminated the oil and butter from his diet. He lost excess weight without even trying. He dropped 20 pounds while eating fun food like fat-free donuts and fat-free pizza. Jahnavi's father doesn't count calories and eats as much as he feels like. Eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans helps you become slim. This is how he effortlessly lost weight and easily keep it off. Jahnavi's book shares countless medical studies by physicians like Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. John McDougal showing the link between high fat consumption and major diseases like heart disease, cancer, adult diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. You can truly prevent and even reverse major killers such as heart diseases just by giving your food a makeover. You can have your cake and eat it, too!

Jahnavi Angela Sankhla is an Indian American chef, writer, and television personality. She appears on several television news programs such as Great Day Houston, which is a morning show on the CBS News affiliate in Houston, Texas. Her heart-healthy cooking, especially her famous fat-free donuts have also been featured on many other morning shows in the United States, such as Good Morning Washington, which is on the ABC News affliate in Washington, D.C. Her interviews have been featured on the local ABC and NBC evening news and other television shows. Sankhla is the younger daughter of Chandra P. Sankhla, who works in the Pentagon, Department of Defense, and her mother is Kiran L. Sankhla, who is faculty at the University of Maryland. She has an elder sister who is happily married. Her grandfather in India is Justice Kan Singh Parihar, a retired High Court Justice in Jodhpur, India. Jahnavi comes from the royal family of Jodhpur, India - the Parihar dynasty. Her ancestor is Maharaja Shri Nahar Rao Parihar who was the brave King of Mandore in the ancient capital of Marwar. During the Clinton administration in 1995, Jahnavi worked in the White House for Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform. Healthy eating being her passion, Jahnavi began catering for congressional luncheons in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1995. Jahnavi made friendships with several members of Congress who are impressed by her advocating a healthy diet which would cut down health care costs. Several Congressmen and their wives - such as former House Minority leader, Congressman Richard Gephardt and Congressman Lane Evans - have come to Jahnavi's home to enjoy her gourmet heart-healthy cooking. Congressman Dennis Kucinich and his wife appreciate Jahnavi's heart-healthy cuisine as well. When Jahnavi's father had emergency double-bypass open heart surgery, Jahnavi's career in heart-healthy cooking began. Jahnavi's goal was to lower her father's cholesterol by making all of her father's favorite foods fat-free. Using her creativity, she developed totally fat-free pizza, tacos, donuts, lasagna and nachos. Her goal was to create delicious healthy junk food. Her father's colleagues in the Pentagon were so impressed that her father's cholesterol dropped from 250 mg/dl to 150 mg/dl in just two months of eating Jahnavi's very low-fat diet, without needing any cholesterol-lowering medications. They all began to ask her for her recipe for fat-free cake. Thus, she decided to put all her recipes together in a cookbook and was soon interviewed on the local ABC evening news in Washington, D.C. Jahnavi is the author of three cookbooks: Heart-Healthy Wealthy And Wise, Thank God It's Fat-Free Fun Food, and The Yoga Of Eating Great and Losing Weight, which is based on the bhakti yoga taught by Srila Prabhupada. Jahnavi was trained in ayurveda in the Himalayas where she learned yoga and meditation in the monasteries. She is a bhakti-yoga instructor and became a naturopathic physician. She has extensively studied alternative medicine in the field of cancer immunology. As a faculty at University of Marlyand, Jahnavi started the Food For Life club, whose mother organization is the international food relief program Food For Life. Jahnavi's catering company has also catered free healthy meals for the Christ House which is a homeless shelter in Washington D.C. Jahnavi has met with several notables such as President Bill Clinton, Larry King, and Regis Philbin. On the CBS News morning show, she is known as the Deepak Chopra of the culinary world.