How to Flatten Your Stomach

Manufacturer: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of

This diet aims to help the reader lose weight fast by identifying the foods that make them look and feel falesly fat - and eliminating the allergy-like food reactions that cause real weight gain. It offers an easy-to-follow regime that can be tailored to the individual and contains recipes and the "no-hunger" programme that aims to bring instant results and long-term benefits. If you know you swell up after bee stings, you avoid bees. If you know a close encounter with poison ivy will leave you itching and scratching for a week, you keep your eyes open for three-leafed plants. But, according to The False Fat Diet, many of us spend our entire lives eating foods that "don't agree with us," and as a result carry around extra pounds, put up with allergies, and go through life looking older and feeling less energetic than we should. Of course, the hook here is weight loss. If you eliminate the foods that make you gassy and bloated, you can probably drop pounds instantly--up to 10 pounds of "false fat" in a week, Elson Haas says--and then keep dropping weight in subsequent weeks and months, the real fat, all without feeling hungry or deprived. Haas offers two ways to figure out if you've got food sensitivities: a medical blood test or an elimination diet, in which you cut out certain foods for a while, then gradually reintroduce them to see if they're the ones causing the problems. (The usual suspects: dairy, wheat, corn, sugar, eggs, soy, peanuts.) The False Fat Diet offers detailed instructions on how to eliminate each of these foods, and also offers ideas about supplements to take and other strategies to deal with the strangeness of not eating what are probably your favorite foods. Although the basic idea behind The False Fat Diet is counterintuitive--that the foods you like and crave the most are causing you the most severe physical problems--the potential benefits are enormous. Haas and Cameron Stauth tell numerous stories of patients (including Stauth and his sister...

Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Each year 400,000 pregnant women in the United States get the weight loss surprise of their lives: They lose so much weight after delivery that they weigh less thanthey did before they were pregnant. "The weight just seemed to come off by itself," they say.Want to know their secret? It's in this book--and in your "new mom" body. Contrary to popular belief, losing weight after childbirth is easier than at any other time--if you understand your body's unique postpartum chemistry. For the first time, weight loss expert Sheldon Levine, M.D., reveals the "three trimesters of weight loss" that occur after delivery, and how to lose weight at each stage, no matter how much you weighed before pregnancy:Birth to Three Months Postpartum: The best time to lose weight! The plummeting hormones and elevated metabolism of new motherhood naturally speed the process. Just follow Dr. Levine's simple dietary advice to help ward off the "baby blues" and boost energy, and your body will do the rest.Three to Six Months Postpartum: The key weight loss phase for overweight new moms: You can actually lower your set point--the weight your body "likes" best. Six to Nine Months Postpartum: Good news for overweight nursing moms: Their unique body chemistry allows weight loss to continue, offering a real chance of attaining (and maintaining) a healthy weight.Dr. Levine's simple fourteen-day menu plan is nutritionally sound for new and nursing moms. It increases energy, minimizes food cravings and mood swings, and includes recipes and lifestyle tips. His toning program takes only minutes a day. Both enhance the new mother's physical and emotional well-being.So forget sit-ups! Forget diets! Dr. Levine's new approach works with your body chemistry to make weight loss after childbirth easy, fast--and forever. "The time after delivery is the best time ever for you to lose weight!" writes Sheldon Levine, M.D., in Hello, Baby! Good-bye, Baby Fat! Not only can you lose the weight you gained during pregna...

Manufacturer: Xlibris Brand: Brand: Xlibris Corporation

Book by Cortright, Bill

Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Manufacturer: Robinson Publishing

A bewildering range of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements are now available, but legislation means that information about their health benefits cannot be given on packaging as it would constitute a health claim. Using an A-Z format, Dr Sarah Brewer's guide details everything you need to know about the main vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements. It describes their benefits, possible side effects and contra-indications, together with research evidence to back their effectiveness. The second half of the book deals with over 150 individual health problems, including irritable bowel syndrome, menopause symptoms, chronic fatigue and arthritis, and suggests which supplements are likely to help.

Manufacturer: DK Adult

A day-by-day healthy diet and exercise plan by one of the top names in fitness. Matt Roberts, personal trainer to the stars, has already shown what he can do for readers in the bestselling 90-Day Fitness Plan and Fitness for Life manual. Now Matt Roberts returns with Fat Loss -- a day-by-day personalized plan to give readers a leaner, toned body in just eight weeks. Combing a home-based exercise program with recipes for delicious low-fat meals, Fat Loss guides the reader step-by-step, day-by-day, toward an obtainable goal with sustainable results-a better-looking, better-functioning body, increased energy levels, and a new sense of well-being and self-confidence.

Manufacturer: Delmar Cengage Learning Brand: Brand: Delmar Cengage Learning

Eat Fit, Be Fit: Solutions for Health and Weight Management offers a fresh approach to weight control and nutrition. This unique book provides simple-to-read facts about eating better, controlling blood sugar, being healthy, and managing weight. It contains hundreds of recipes of "super foods" that make you feel great and curb your appetite without having to supersize portions. It includes guidelines for health, weight management, exercise, grocery shopping, and reading food labels. Nutrition principles discuss the impact stress has on hormones that cause overeating and emphasize the importance of not eating on the run to aid in digestion. Also explained is the role of phytochemicals (plant based nutrients) in reducing the risk for cancer, and fiber's impact on the heart, disease, diabetes, and cancer. This text offers information on how to improve bone density, memory and mood with the right food choices. The hundreds of recipes included are easily and quickly prepared and packed with nutritional value. Each recipe is coded so that readers can easily see the nutritional benefit of each meal. Eat Fit, Be Fit offers a well-rounded approach to healthy eating for the entire family, and its easy recipes for health and weight management will make all the difference for long term health.

Manufacturer: Michael Joseph Ltd

Aims to shatter the myths about dieting to reveal the real causes of weight gain and overeating. This programme shows the reader how to discover underlying chemical imbalances, and which nutritional supplements and foods your body needs to eliminate them.

Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publ Brand: Brand: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Bak

Helpful Accompanying Guide to Free to Be Thin A versatile tool for the rebuilding of a new outlook and a new look, the Getting Started Study Guide is designed to be used with Free to Be Thin in book or tape form. The material in the Guide corresponds directly with the chapters in the book and also represents the basic material that author Neva Coyle presents in her seminars to gatherings across the country. The Getting Started Study Guide consists of scripture passages for daily reflection, lessons on nutrition, eating, and other important topics, and valuable resource information that will help you apply the life-changing insights from Free to Be Thin to your life. The guide is meant to be used day-by-day as a help and reminder of the discipline needed to succeed. Lasting results are the only ones that matter, and this study guide offers you a unique opportunity to put to practice all the priceless information you have learned.