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Leon was founded on the twin principles that food can both taste good and do you good. In this book, Leon authors Jane Baxter and John Vincent bring together 100 recipes for fresh, vibrant, delicious salads that will have you feeling healthy and happy. Divided into chapters that include Classics, Naturally Fast, Salads for Friends, Family Salads and Lunchbox, this book contains salads for all tastes and all occasions. Whether you're looking for a bright salad with which to dazzle your friends, or a simple salad to take to the office, this book is a must-have kitchen staple.Recipes include: Pink Quinoa SaladPolish Herring SaladHam Hock and Lentil SaladVietnamese Chicken Salad with Rice NoodlesCourgetti with Pesto and Grated Ricotta SalataBacon Fried Corn with Greens, Pork and Crisp Sweet PotatoBlack Rice Salad with Peas, Egg and a Curry DressingAsparague, Couscous, Feta & Orange Leon Original Superfood Hot-smoked Salmon, Beetroot, Horseradish & Dill.



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Jane Baxter

Little did I know that my dissatisfaction with my Masters in Social Work (MSW) program back in 1993 would drive me to research and develop a more well-rounded approach to the treatment of mood disorders and addictions. This book is the result of that journey. During all of my years in school, I was bewildered by the fact that exercise was never mentioned as a component of treatment.Being athletic my entire life, I knew how important exercise was to me personally. The weekend after I graduated from my MSW program, I entered a training program to become a personal trainer -- not that I wanted to be a personal trainer as such, but I wanted to know how to work with people in terms of strengthening their bodies with the thought that I would eventually integrate talk therapy and physical strengthening techniques. The idea was promptly shelved as I went through a doctoral program and had three children. It came back to life on the playground at my children's school, and it came back with a fury.Two friends of mine who were personal trainers asked me what to do when their clients start crying during the workouts. They said it happened all the time and they felt like they were becoming therapists. I told them about my idea and they strongly encouraged me to move forward with it. When I use the word "fury," I mean that I would wake up at 4 a.m. thinking about it. I had brainstorming sessions where I would cut yellow pieces of paper in half and scribble out ideas until my dining room table was covered with all the possibilities for how this hybrid therapy model could work.I went to bookstores and libraries and scanned indexes of books on neuroscience to see if they had anything on exercise. I bought a treadmill, balance balls, workout matts, dumbbells and strength training equipment. I then got up the nerve to ask friends to come in with a "safe" problem they would feel comfortable talking to me about, to get a sense of how a session could flow. I named the program PsychFit, Inc. and put my website up in 2003 (www.PsychFitInc.com). I then started talking to physicians and my friends in the medical field, and I made up a brochure that I posted around my neighborhood.Referrals began to come in. While the majority of my practice has been traditional therapy, at times I have 50% of my patients doing PsychFit. In 2005, a reporter from The Washington Post contacted me to do a story on the program, which I thought would be a small piece in their Health Section. Much to his and my surprise, the editor made it a front page story. It was later re-run by the Associated Press and appeared in newspapers all over the United States, Mexico and Asia.Similarly, last summer, WebMD did a story on PsychFit, and I was contacted a few weeks later by a publisher who felt there was a need for a self-help book about combining exercise with cognitive-behavioral therapy. She asked me if I would be interested in writing it. For me, it was hard to s



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