The Foundation Diet: Your Body Was Designed To Eat

Manufacturer: Vermilion

Based on the idea that weight gain is due to food cravings, this guide is designed to alter the body's biochemistry, ridding it of cravings for sugary, fatty foods. The result should be weight loss and increased energy levels. Devilishly handsome actor Ralph Feinnes, who packed on pounds for his role in Schindler's List, followed this plan and said it helped him keep his energy level high enough to survive his grueling, eight-times-a-week performances of Hamlet. The word "diet" in the title may be a bit misleading, as it's more of a blood sugar-regulating eating schedule; once blood sugar is normalized, says author Adele Puhn, cravings soon dissipate, and that helps excess pounds fall off almost by themselves. It's not a five-day diet, either, as the title implies; rather, that's the amount of time it takes to get your blood sugar fully normalized. Puhn, who has a master's degree in medical biology and has been certified as a nutritional specialist by the American College of Nutrition, has 20 years of experience working with this diet. She says that timing is the key. Each day, there's a mandatory snack within two hours of breakfast, and two more snacks in the afternoon. There are a few no-no foods that would cause a rush of blood sugar (no pasta for lunch, no plain bagels for breakfast, no grapes for snacks), but other than that, the program is remarkably simple. Puhn says that losing weight is 75 percent physiological (cravings sabotaging your efforts) and 25 percent psychological, such as when your inner "fathead" says you have to have that piece of chocolate birthday cake or you'll hurt Aunt Fanny's feelings. The 5 Day Miracle Diet shows you how to conquer both of these forces, leading to weight loss, improvements in energy, and decreases in blood pressure and cholesterol levels. While its advice may be unusual (vegetables or turkey get the okay for breakfast), its message is clearly sane. It's "not about never eating certain things again. It's about learning h...

Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Publishers

Examining society's preoccupation with weight, this volume offers ways to escape the diet/weight trap, including accepting that body shape is often determined by genetics and recognizing the prejudices of size oppression. Original.

Manufacturer: Not Avail

A great book for the pasta lover. Lots of good recipes for healthy low calorie dishes.

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Manufacturer: Basic Books

This approach to weight control contends that no matter what diet one tries, it is doomed to fail because each body has a certain "setpoint" or level of stored fat.

Manufacturer: Joseph Henry Press

Once dismissed by the medical profession as a purely cosmetic problem, obesity now ranks second only to smoking as a wholly preventable cause of death. Indeed, it's implicated in 300,000 deaths each year and is a major contributor to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and depression. Even conservative estimates show that 15% of all children are now considered to be overweight--worldwide there are 22 million kids under five years old that are defined as fat. Supersized portions, unhealthy diets, and too little physical activity certainly contribute to what's making kids 'fat.' But that's not the whole story. Researchers are at a loss to explain why obesity rates have risen so suddenly and so steeply in the closing decades of the 20th century. But head out to the beaches, playgrounds, and amusement parks, and it's obvious that overweight children are more numerous and conspicuous. We see it in our neighborhoods and we read it in the headlines. Our nation--indeed the world--is in crisis. But knowledge is power and it's time to arm ourselves in the battle to win the war on obesity. Fed Up! is just what the doctor ordered. Based in part on the Institute of Medicine's ground-breaking report on childhood obesity, this new book from family physician and journalist Susan Okie provides in-depth background on the issue; shares heartrending but instructive case studies that illustrate just how serious and widespread the problem is; and gives honest, authoritative, science-based advice that constitute our best weapons in this critical battle.

Manufacturer: Thorndike Press

By the time Susan Blech was 38 years old, she weighed a staggering 468.1 pounds. She binged. She was "only a little chubby," or so she convinced herself. Gripping, sometimes shocking, and ultimately inspiring, Confessions of a Carb Queen is the story of how Susan changed her life to save her life, ultimately losing 250 pounds without surgery. Susan speaks candidly about eating binges, fat sex, and other topics no obese person has dared to address as she recounts her transformation from a vulnerable woman to one charged with willpower and courage. Her powerful story is a blend of memoir, advice, and delicious, health-conscious recipes that will inspire all who listen to it.

Manufacturer: Hodder Mobius

Most diets are known to be unsuccessful. Leading naturopath Roderick Lane's pioneering Adam and Eve Diet is different - it works because it targets your individual evolutionary type and works in harmony with the body's specific needs. The principle is simple. We each belong to one of five body types - Hunter Gatherer, Pioneer, Pathfinder, Farmer and Dancer. Our type governs our physique and has its own dietary requirements, so treating your body to the best nourishment for its type will reward you with the best possible health. Determine your own body type with The Adam and Eve Diet, and discover: The most effective natural diet for your evolutionary type / What, when and where to eat / How to adapt for stress and life changes / Invaluable recipes and menus for a healthier, happier, slimmer you.

Manufacturer: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Lt Brand: Brand: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing G

No hunger pangs. No faddy diets. No complicated calculations. This is the most SIMPLE diet ever. It is EASY. It is HEALTHY AND BALANCED. It is SUITABLE FOR ALL. And it WORKS. Just choose most of your foods from the green lists, some of your foods from the amber lists, and few foods from the red lists. Including the facts, figures and info on obesity, THE TRAFFIC LIGHT DIET is based on all the main weight-control recommendations for individuals made in the Commons Select Committee 2004 report on obesity.