Stay off My Operating Table - by Philip Ovadia (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

What foods to put on your table so you don't end up on mine

For the past century, we've been bombarded with diet ads and advice from gurus and governments. Yet heart disease remains the #1 killer worldwide, and 88% of adults are metabolically unhealthy. Up to 95% of dieters gain back all the weight they lost while following both dietary guidelines and popular fitness fads.

Here's why they fail.

Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. Whether low-carb or low-fat, the typical plan goes like this: restrict your food choices, exercise until exhaustion, and swallow stacks of supplements. These "solutions" do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you.

Meanwhile, the healthcare industry fails to prevent chronic disease. Rather than showing people how to remain healthy and prevent illness through proper nutrition, the system offers drugs and surgery to manage symptoms.

As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Philip Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed-metabolic health.

What you eat determines how long and how well you live. Yet most doctors don't learn that in medical school. And pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers have a vested interest in the public not knowing how to live and eat metabolically healthy.

In Stay off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease and optimize your health, a system that the diet and drug industries don't want you to know about. Unlike quick-fix, "7-day," radical diets, Dr. Ovadia's approach is a sustainable, long-term solution that works.

Whether you've suffered from chronic diseases or want to prevent them decades from now, Stay off My Operating Table will help you take back control of your health from the institutions and experts that have failed you.

A doctor's nutrition system to prevent and reverse disease

Review Quotes

"Stay off My Operating Table is a must-read. This is the book for any physician or patient who wants to prevent disease if possible and to otherwise improve outcomes. Dr. Ovadia understands the central role metabolic health plays in the body, knowledge which enables him to keep potential future cardiac patients off his operating table. I am sharing this book with other doctors at the USC Keck School of Medicine so they can learn how diet affects everything we do in medicine."

-Robert Lufkin, MD, Chief of Head Neck Imaging/Neuroradiology, Prohealth Advanced Imaging Network & Clinical Professor of Radiology, USC Keck School of Medicine

"Most so-called 'health experts' have no idea what they're talking about. In fact, their advice usually results in you getting sicker, fatter, and angrier. And you're left with no clue about what to do different. Dr. Philip Ovadia changes everything. Not only is he an actual doctor who understands the problems with our sick-care system, he knows how the human body actually works. In Stay off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia shows you how to get your metabolic health right and, in turn, get everything else right. Your weight, your blood sugar, your blood pressure, your cholesterol and triglycerides, your energy, everything."

-Vinnie Tortorich, Author, Fitness Confidential

"Working in clinical medicine for more than twenty years has demonstrated to me that we often overlook the root cause of chronic disease in an effort to manage symptoms. I firmly believe that if we could help identify the real etiologies and reasons for chronic illness, and the lifestyle contributors to inflammation, insulin resistance, etc., we would have a much healthier population. Dr. Philip Ovadia's book brilliantly identifies how best to empower our current medical establishment to help reverse current statistics and metabolic inflexibility."

-Cynthia Thurlow, Nurse Practitioner, Intermittent Fasting and Nutrition Expert, and Two-Time TEDx Speaker