Book Description
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.
Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-theskin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.
Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.
With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet -- The Owner's Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.
Customer Reviews:
A Must Have!.......2007-10-25
This book helps you learn to eat healthy and live healthy.
Crucial today when the obesity rate is skyrocketing. Pains me to hear the new statistic that kids today, the first time in history, will have a shorter life span then their parents due to obesity and diabetes. Please get informed, there is way more food out there that is not healthy then healthy. Some "healthy" food or what you think is healthy isn't be warned you shouldn't be eating anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup. He has a list of five ingredients that shouldn't be in any food you eat, get the book and add years to your life. Get any of his books or any Michael Roizen has written. Feel better, live longer, and retrain your palate to enjoy nutrient rich, calorie poor food.
Excellent.......2007-10-25
It gives great advice all logical and not "trendy". It recommends foods and exercise etc. I found it to be easy to read and to do.
Good but not great.......2007-10-24
I found this book difficult to follow as they oversimplified things and made the book seem like it should be part of the "for Dummies" series.
Dr. Georgia Andrianopoulos, author, Retrain Your Brain Reshape Your Body.......2007-10-23
Congratulations Drs Roizen and Oz on another successful book! Once again you have shown your readers a gentle way to the basic, root causes of excessive overeating and weight gain. The brain is the ultimate root cause of cravings and overeating and determines the success or failure of any diet. "Retrain your Brain Reshape your Body" is a complementary resource that helps ready the mind and body for the challenges of any weight loss program, in just two weeks! Drs Roizen's and Oz's tips for avoiding overeating become easier to follow when your mind is helping your efforts.
For those who know everything about dieting..........2007-10-21
I'll admit it, saw him on Oprah...yes that is right, a stay at home mom and I watched Oprah. Big surprise there? Well I bit and bought the book. Read the whole thing too. Even though I was pained at the attempts at humor, I got thru it. Kinda boring, but refreshing to see no magic pill, or hocus pocus diet. I thought I knew it all...okay learned a few things. Decided to just get with it... I joined the Y and stopped thinking about food. Just started eating what was good for me. Ok you want the nuts and bolts...I lost the inches and the lbs...sorry Dr I still watch the scale...6 weeks 10 lbs. Haven't had time to watch a single Oprah since. So the pluses just keep adding up.
So if you want the quick version here it is...
Find something other than food to make you happy. Get off the couch and take a walk and eat a handful of walnuts 20 minutes before lunch.
So how did I do?
Book Description
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author Kevin Trudeau comes the last diet you will ever need. Imagine, you will lose at least 30 pounds in 30 days...with no hunger...no exercise...and no surgery!
An absolute cure for obesity was discovered almost fifty years ago by a British medical doctor. Tens of thousands of people used this simple, inexpensive, safe medical treatment and achieved miraculous, fast, and permanent weight loss. Stubborn area fat deposits melted away. Body reshaping of the hips, thighs, buttocks, and waist was so dramatic it appeared as if the patients received liposuction! Amazingly, this medical breakthrough has been debunked, discredited, and suppressed by the American Medical Association, the Food and Drug Administration, and other medical establishments throughout the world. Now, for the first time in fifty years, this revolutionary breakthrough discovery, which permanently cures the condition of obesity, is being released to the public.
The main problems that overweight people deal with are massive, intense, constant physical hunger; food cravings and uncontrollable urges to eat when not hungry; low metabolism; and an abnormally high amount of fat stored in stubborn secure problem areas such as the hips, thighs, buttocks, and waist. This "weight loss cure protocol" has been proven to be virtually 100% successful in correcting these conditions, thus curing the individual of obesity for life! Read the fascinating true story of how this discovery was made and, more importantly, how this miracle weight loss breakthrough has been hidden from the public so that drug companies can make billions of dollars selling their expensive drug treatments and surgical procedures for obesity. You'll be amazed to read how the food manufacturers actually have a financial incentive to make you fat! This is the book that answers all the questions about why people today are continually getting fatter and fatter. The good news is this book gives you the cure that can solve your overweight condition once and for all.
Customer Reviews:
Not what I expected!!!.......2007-10-25
The book is definitely over hipped. The author claims he has this magic cure to trick the hypothalmus gland into releasing the extra fat in our body. The only problem is the material to do this trick is not available in the USA. It is actually illegal to sell. The book was full of the same useless garbage you see in a 100 other weight loss books on the market. Nothing new!!! This author is basically a snake oil salesman, but a good one!!! Simple formula for losing weight is eat less calories than you burn each day. Lose two ounces a day for a year and you will lose forty five pounds. Book is "absolutely" not worth the price!!! Place the book in the bathroom, next to the commode, and put a note on the top that reads "Use in case of an emergency."
Lets get real--this is snake oil.......2007-10-24
Kevin Trudeau wants you to get a daily injection, for 45 days, of a perscription drug that can not be procured legally in the United States for weight loss purposes. Trudeau's advice? If your doctor won't accommodate you and give you your daily injection of hCG, get another doctor, or smuggle the stuff in from abroad. That and the every other day colon cleansing plus the 58 other things one has to do before one even starts the daily injections, made it clear that this is pure snake oil. If you don't lose weight on this impossible regimen, Trudeau would probably claim that you didn't follow the protocol.
The Weight Loss Cure???.......2007-10-24
I bought this book thinking that it might hold some answers for me. Instead, it was full of hard-to-do suggestions. I don't know ANY doctor that would prescribe growth hormone injections as a tool for weight loss. In fact, Kevin had to go to another country to get a prescription for these injections. This "weight loss cure protocol" as he calls it, is difficult or even impossible for the general public to follow. I bet Paris Hilton could get an RX for the injections, but then SHE doesn't need them. This book is not worth the money or the time and it definitely does not live up to all the hype.
Is obesity an incurable disease?.......2007-10-21
As with all Trudeau's books also this one contains some good info but there is also a lot of stuff that calls for mistrust. The author suggests some practices that might not be at all safe and healthy. What's the point of losing weight, if you get sick by doing that? The other problem with following Trudeau's ideas is that one would have to spend tones of money on supplements, vitamins, and procedures. And I am absolutely against spending any money to buy some questionable injections... All in all the author has some good ideas but mostly they are too eccentric, and possibly dangerous. So I have a hard time putting my trust in his writings. Instead I suggest books like Cure the Incurable or "Can we live 150". The author of these two titles proposes very safe and simple, natural solutions to health problems, obesity being one of them.
It works! It really works!.......2007-10-21
Like a lot of people have stated, the book is poorly written, and Kevin Trudeau is a huckster. BUT, I'm so thankful he wrote this book because without it, I would not have found out about Dr. Simeon's protocol.
I am a vegetarian, so I switched all the meat to meat substitutes, not sure if it would work. But here I am on day 25 and I've lost 25.2 pounds. I have PCOS and insulin resistance, so losing weight it usually extremely difficult. Difficult to the point that I can eat 800 calories a day, exercise and still gain weight or at best, hold my weight steady. Eventually the weight starts to come off with traditional diets, lowering calories, etc., but we're talking MAYBE 1/2 pound per week. Now, on my worst days I lose 1/2 pound per day!
I've seen many, many people have success with the protocol. And it's not expensive, if you know where to look.
As far as Phase 1 - I didn't touch it. Organic foods? When they are easily accessible. Other than that, I use normal products because that's what is available to me.
Don't be afraid to do some research.
Book Description
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?
Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how–and the myriad reasons why–we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.
Zimbardo is perhaps best known as the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Here, for the first time and in detail, he tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners.
By illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. He replaces the long-held notion of the “bad apple” with that of the “bad barrel”–the idea that the social setting and the system contaminate the individual, rather than the other way around.
This is a book that dares to hold a mirror up to mankind, showing us that we might not be who we think we are. While forcing us to reexamine what we are capable of doing when caught up in the crucible of behavioral dynamics, though, Zimbardo also offers hope. We are capable of resisting evil, he argues, and can even teach ourselves to act heroically. Like Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, The Lucifer Effect is a shocking, engrossing study that will change the way we view human behavior.
Customer Reviews:
it depends what you expect..........2007-09-26
There is no question that Zimbardo is a great scholar and that he had spent years, decades, studying this subject. Yet, good scholarship doesn't always translate to good writing. This is a thick (literary and otherwise) book. The overall argument presented by Zimbardo is clear, but it feels that it is bogged down by so many details. There are pages after pages of transcripts from the original study. And here is the point. It all depends what you expect. If you want very detailed account of the 1971 study, that's what you get. Clear, detailed, well-supported and well-explained. If you look mainly for straightfoward answers to the question how good people turn evil, this book could be a difficult read.
The Stanford Prison Experiment and Onward to Others.......2007-09-23
Well worth the read just to recapture the fascination of the students involved in the Staford Experiment. In 1971 I was new to college and later heard of the experiment in class lectures. The reactions of the student prisoners and guards, even down to the despondency and controlling behaviors that emerged, was intriguing. The Stanford Prison Experiment has now taken its place as a psychological and sociological cornerstone.
Disaster after disaster is addressed, all having the thread of decent people succumbing to psychological situations. Results are dire in each. Excellent discussion on tendencies of social scientists' to explain poor behaviors on personality traits, while underestimating the situational forces at play.
A fascinating plunge into the dark side of man.......2007-09-17
Zimbardos book is exceptional in both scientific and entertaining terms. He is surprisingly eloquent writer for a scholar and has a great sense of humour which makes the description of the Stanford Prison Experiment he conducted, a delightful plunge into the dark side of man.
Not Exactly Honest.......2007-09-12
I purchased this book with the intention on learning about how situation can influence a person's actions. Do that extent, this book does an excellent job. What I did not like is this overwhelming sense that this book was written as a way to use Abu Ghraib as a way to attack the Bush Administration, of which the author is obviously opposed. Don't get me wrong, I am not opposed to criticizing the president and I do believe he has accountability for his actions. My issue is that the author threw his bias into a book that appeared to offer an unbiased view of social behavior as it relates to situational forces.
As long as he brought it up, I disagree with the author's views on responsibilty in Iraq. The author attempted to make Mr. Bush's office ultimately responsible for this awful situation; but wasn't it really the cumulative voice of the American people. I am not saying majority, but I am saying the loudest. I, for one, have always felt that we should take the war to the enemy and keep it from my front door. I was more interested in result than I was with how they were gotten (ie. if you torture them, don't tell me). I really did not have a problem (okay, a slight concern) with the Patriot Act or with the wiretapping of our phones. I supported the idea of not treating terrorists as POW's, though I believe it did get out of hand. My point is the president is not ultimately to blame, though he does have some culpability. The ultimate responsibility lies in the hands of each and every citizen. But in what I feel was a biased view, the author stopped at Bush.
Again, this book would have been fine had I known what I was buying. Unfortunately, it used wonderful research to present a distorted and partial view of the Iraq situation. I would have thought that Mr. Zimbardo would have learned from his SPE experiment that not only can you not be researcher and warden and get good results; you also can't be researcher and political analyst either. What you end up with is invalidated ideas.
Mr. Zimbardo, you are thought highly of in the world of social psychology. Why would you attempt such a poorly veiled attack?
A Plea for Ordinary Heroes.......2007-08-30
Having always been fascinated by psychology, I was excited to read that Prof. Zimbardo had finally written a book about the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). The first 200 pages go into great detail about the six days the experiment lasted (though it had been planned to last two weeks) before being cut short due to the drastic changes in both "prisoners" and "guards." The next 100 pages present his detailed examination of the different variables in the experiment, their implications then and now, the nature of good and evil, and what makes people change. The last 200 pages cover the Abu Ghraib abuses, their frightening similarity to the SPE on many levels, the call for bringing the military and governmental brass to some accountability for creating the "bad barrel" that led normal soldiers to become abusers. He ends with a description of heroism and how we can avoid being coerced by the situations and systems that surround us to act for a better world. A terrific book! Much needed.
Book Description
Lots of people enjoy making or buying treats for their pets, but wouldn't it be wonderful to cook a real meal for the four-legged member of the household? Quirky yet practical, these cookbooks provide recipes that are nutritionally balanced and veterinarian-approved. They even include sections on "tandem" recipes - recipes for humans that, with slight modifications, can also be served to pets.
REAL FOOD FOR DOGS is written by Arden Moore, the first non-veterinarian to write the pet column for Prevention magazine.
Customer Reviews:
Puppies gone wild...........2007-10-24
I bought this book to give my two puppies some variety in food and because they are getting bored with certain foods. They go wild for this stuff. It's as if they know I'm cooking for them. They will patiently sit in the kitchen with me until it's finished. They even lick the bowls clean, no wasted food here.
Vital information missing.......2007-10-15
To feed your pet healthy food you need to know the calories and the portions. To cook a sufficient amount, you need to know the number of sized servings per recipe. This book gives none of this vital information.
Great recipes.......2007-10-01
Good alternative meals for dogs, with ingredients that you already probably have in the fridge. Also has great treat ideas that I didn't have in another treat cookbook.
Fun book.......2007-09-26
This book has great dog treat ideas and a fun format. The recipes are unusual and very simple. I was disappointed that there weren't more recipes for everyday dog food, though. This book is more for special-occasion food.
Good beginner's book. Not for the long haul.......2007-09-18
I picked this up on a whim just after I adopted my dog. I've been feeding my cats a homemade diet using Feline Future for years now. This is a very cute book. A very fun book. But it is NOT a very healthy book. It advocates a lot of highly processed ingredients. Refined white rice and refined white bread. Corn meal. These are not good for your dog.
It says nothing about whole, fresh, organic ingredients. Vitamins. Nutrients.
If you're looking to get started, this book is a good one for beginners. Although some of the recipes are far too ingredient heavy.
Average customer rating:
- The 'over-info-load' is appreciated when you need it
- Not what I was expecting.
- It's time to move beyond this book!
- The image on the cover says it all
- If it's free, fine, but probably not worth more than four bucks
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What to Expect When You're Expecting, Third Edition
Heidi Murkoff ,
Arlene Eisenberg , and
Sandee Hathaway
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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The third edition of Americas bestseller, What to Expect When You're Expecting, is updated and is revised with better features for expecting families. The authors are very experienced including Heidi Murkoff, an established writer, and Sandee Hathaway, holder of B.S. in Nursing from Boston University and they have quite a bit to say about this book. Arlene Eisenberg also puts her two cents in. The What to Expect When You're Expecting books has more in-depth coverage of complementary and alternative birthing. Greater detail is also give to the way families handle everything from second pregnancies to HMOs. Workman Publishing Company publishes books that are insightful and informative.
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Eighteen years after it first hit the shelves and having sold more than 10 million copies, What to Expect When You're Expecting is still on nearly every mother-to-be's reading list. This completely revised and updated edition is packed with answers to hundreds of questions and worries expectant parents may have. The information is presented in a month-by-month format starting with planning a pregnancy and choosing a practitioner, and follows through to six weeks after delivery. Each chapter begins with an explanation of what to expect at a particular month's prenatal visit and a brief description of how mom and baby are growing and changing before getting to the heart of the matter: What You May Be Concerned About. Topics are presented as questions ranging from "Should I be taking vitamins?" to "What if I forget everything I learn in childbirth education class?" to "Will I be able to breastfeed?" The answers are generally reassuring and provide enough information to soothe a worried mom between prenatal visits. Despite the reassuring answers, however, the sheer volume of worries discussed may alarm an otherwise calm mom-to-be.
The book also features a complete nutrition plan (though many women may find it difficult to follow), a special chapter just for expectant dads, and extensive information about dealing with minor illnesses, chronic conditions, and pregnancy complications. What to Expect has guided countless women through their pregnancies and makes an informative addition to the mainstream pregnancy and childbirth bookshelf. --Jennifer Lindsay
Customer Reviews:
The 'over-info-load' is appreciated when you need it.......2007-10-25
I'm firmly in the camp that ignorance is NOT bliss when it comes to anything, but even with that, yeah, this book could be a little alarming.
Then I had a subchorionic hemotoma 8 weeks into pregnancy, and this was the only book that covered first trimester bleeding in any detail and accuracy. Trust me, once you've had a horrifying incident like that happen to you, you can't get enough information about it. (The good news, however, is hematomas -- at least in this case -- do not harm the baby or the pregnancy).
So, I give the book thumbs up on keeping women OUT of the dark. Not as to scare you, really, but to make sure you're informed of the crazy things that are going on while your body is making a baby.
The thumbs down (hence the 3 stars) is there very little in terms of pictures or charts or anything like that. You get this black and white image of what 'mom and baby' look like month by month and that's about it.
Not what I was expecting........2007-10-25
This book was just given to me by a friend. It's my second pregnancy book and I was so excited to have a new one to read, I just ran home and started right away. Man was I disappointed. I feel judged by this book. It makes me more paranoid than anything and I'm pretty much bored out of my mind. This all from someone who usually loves to absorb anything pregnancy related, even before becoming pregnant. I've tried to give it more than one chance and was even told by my Doctor to stop reading it since I'm losing sleep over it. The only good thing about this book is the amount of information. So if you enjoy a dry, boring, judgemental read, then I recommend this.
It's time to move beyond this book!.......2007-10-19
The only reason this book has sold so many copies is that most OBGYN offices give it away. This book is a study in how not to have a natural, joyous pregnancy and birth.
The image on the cover says it all.......2007-10-13
Take a look at the coverart and you'll get an accurate feel for the book. The woman looks completely miserable and worried. Exactly how you'll feel when your through reading the book. The condescending attitude of the author and anxiety-producing information in the book is enough to make any mother-to-be feel like she is an inadequate "little woman". Also, the cover art is so outdated...looks like all pregnant women should look frumpy and wear clothes from 20 years ago. The message -- you are not strong and confident. And forget sexy. The quilted background and rocking chair top it all off. Pregnant women, stay home and sew, but only after you are done cooking and cleaning for your "husband." If you don't have a "husband", for shame! The cover art of the book is a big clue that the book is outdated and better suited to the 1980s.
Don't waste your money.
If it's free, fine, but probably not worth more than four bucks.......2007-10-06
When I was not pregnant I thought of this as THE book for pregnant women. Once I got pregnant I realized that it left a lot of holes in the story, had a weird flow to it, and really only made two or three points over and over and over and over.
If you're looking for a gift for your baby-crazy friend who won't be having kids anytime really soon but still wants to dream, get this. If you want something for your pregnant friend, don't waste your money.
There are a million other books with actual information, organized in a logical manner, and displayed in a slightly less "friend-y" way. Please, go for them first and if you still feel like you need this one after reading a real reference (perhaps written by medical professionals) go ahead and buy this. But don't pay full price, I beg you.
Book Description
Any sensible diet will help you lose weight, but the challenge for 90% of Americans is actually staying on the diet they choose.Enter Dr. Judith Beck and The Beck Diet Solution.Dr. Beck, one of the foremost authorities in the field of Cognitive Therapy, has created a four-week plan that will help people stick with their diet, lose weight with confidence, and keep weight off for a lifetime. This program is not only based on the authors personal success and on her success with her many clients, but also on published research. It all starts with how you think. With other programs, you think about nothing but food: counting, weighing, and worst of all, food you cant have. This way of thinking inevitably contributes to diet failure. The Beck Diet Solution is the only program that helps dieters use Cognitive Therapy methods scientifically proven over 20 yearsto forever change those treacherous thought patterns that lead to overeating, cheating, excuses, and other dieting downfalls.
Customer Reviews:
A simple and easy-to-follow way to retrain the way you think about food.......2007-10-10
Coming from a family of obesity and over-eating, this is the one book that is enabling me to break the cycle and break free from my old ways of doing things (that were not getting me anywhere). It's definitely not another "diet" book but a great way to condition ourselves in order to succeed at any diet we choose to follow. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is tired of failing at dieting and failing themselves and ready to make some real changes that will result in lasting and joyous results.
Applies to more than just diet.......2007-09-27
Judith S. Beck is right, and her approach works not only for diet, but it can be applied to other efforts in life as well where people derail themselves with their own thoughts. This is a tool for success, not a diet.
Beck Diet Solution.......2007-09-21
This book is great for anyone who wants to lose weight and keep it off. Cognitive Behavior Therapy is the same thing I used to quit smoking 20 years ago, and it really works. The book is written in layman's terms so it's easy to understand, yet not condescending. I highly recommend it.
Brain training........2007-09-17
Judith S. Beck, The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person (Oxmoor House, 2007)
The Beck Diet Solution is not a diet book in the strict sense; there are no eating plans to be found here. This is, more accurately, a diet book adjunct; Beck has designed this to be usable with any diet, whatever you work with. Even the grapefruit diet. (If you're crazy enough to try the grapefruit diet, of course.) Beck's goal here is not to change what you eat so much as the way you eat it, the way you think about eating it, and your habits while eating. After all, as millions of us are well aware, just changing what you eat is in no way guaranteed to shed pounds and keep them off. The idea is to read a chapter a day for six weeks, learning Beck's tips and techniques gradually in order to change your mindset towards food. Does it work? I know that since reading it, I've looked at a few things differently; it's certainly worth a try. *** ½
Awesome book!.......2007-09-15
I am always telling people to buy this book. I have made a friend buy it. Now the tricky part is sitting down and doing it daily. It is a process. I can't wait for the workbook to come out in Oct 2007. This book needs the workbook. It should have been thought out before.
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- It's worth it
- I LOST 20 LBS AND & COUNTING
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The Fiber35 Diet: Nature's Weight Loss Secret
Brenda Watson , and
Leonard Smith
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It's time to revolutionize the way you think about dieting!
Bestselling author Brenda Watson shares the remarkable secret that helped her take charge of her health and change her life forever. Now you can do the same!
The Fiber35 Diet will show you how to lose weight and improve your health by taking advantage of the extraordinary health benefits of fiber.
In recent decades, a change has taken place in America. In contrast to the fiber-rich fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains once prevalent in our diet, we now consume an overwhelming number and amount of processed foods filled with refined sugars and harmful trans fats. As a result, we have almost completely stripped our diet of what is quite possibly the most beneficial nutrient on the planet.
In addition to helping prevent many of the major diseases of our time -- including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer -- fiber helps to increase satiety, reduce hunger, and actually decrease caloric intake.
The Fiber35 Diet will show you how getting 35 grams of fiber every day is the key to losing weight and staying healthy for life. Unlike many of the low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets that currently saturate the market, the Fiber35 Diet is based on scientifically verified techniques clinically proven to help you lose weight. Most important, this diet corrects one of the most dangerous falsehoods of our time: that carbohydrates are bad. The Fiber 35 Diet teaches you a lifetime eating system that helps you shed pounds safely and effectively.
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A personalized weight loss formula based on how many pounds you want to lose.
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Healthful and fiber-rich recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.
- A comprehensive
strength and cardio training program designed to help you maintain your ideal body weight.
Twenty years ago, author Brenda Watson was overweight, chronically tired, and battling constant health problems. Today she inspires hundreds of thousands of people just like you with her story of personal transformation. By starting the Fiber35 Diet, you are taking the first step on your own journey.
Customer Reviews:
It's worth it.......2007-10-15
I saw Brendas' PBS special and was very interested in the way she broke things down. I have had GI issues for many years, and I decided to give it a try. The book is simple to read, breaks all of the how's and why's down. Now, I like shakes as meal replacements because I don't have a lot of time to mess with anything and I found that giving myself too much decision making room with my meals is how I gained weight in the first place. I did look around for a high fiber shake that was not associated with this book and could not find anything on the market. So I ended up trying the FitSmart shake afterall. It was good and though a little expensive, it works well for me. Since I have started this plan, I have noticed that I feel better. I would recommend this book, especially if you like a more structured plan that's easy to follow.
I LOST 20 LBS AND & COUNTING.......2007-10-09
I saw the PBS special and was facinated by the concept. I think fiber is such a neglected subject in the diet industry but probably because it's not profitable. Once you learn the concept and shoot for:
~10 grams of fiber for breakfast
~10 grams of fiber for lunch
~10 grams of fiber for dinner
+snacks
You are well on your way to weight loss. Before starting the plan I was diagnosed as pre-hypertension and pre-diabetic. Now, all my numbers are better with just being on the program for 4 months. I'm never hungry and I always feel satisfied.
I haven't been doing any strenuous exercising, only walking the dog, minor strength training and playing my video games DDR and Nintendo Wii Sports (especially boxing). Also, even though Brenda's products are probably great, I have customized the diet to my likes and dislikes such as wheat tortillas, refried beans (in olive oil) and spanish brown rice. I have enjoyed reading food labels more and trying all the Kashi products such as their cereals, breakfast bars and pizza, but for me, a balance of soluble and insoluble fiber in it's most natural forms are best for intake/results.
I also try to eliminate all trans fats and corn syrup from my diet. I'm down three pants sizes now and losing 1-2 pounds a week. The Fiber 35 program is so easy to follow. Ultrametabolism is another favorite of mine (another PBS lecture special). Highly recommended.
Easy to Digest.......2007-09-08
I'm always interested in looking into the latest and greatest diet plan and this one caught my eye. I found Fiber35 to be a bit unique among the other books on the diet shelf.
The gist of Fiber35? Simple. You can lose weight and improve your health by taking advantage of all the health benefits of fiber. And, the book feels that fiber is possibly the most benficial nutrient on the planet. This is because fiber can prevent major diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer- as well as increase satiety and decrease hunger. The main plan? Well, as the book goes on the say, getting 35 grams of fiber every day is the key to losing weight and staying healthy for life.
The book has a three phase weight loss plan- an accelerated weight loss phase, a moderate weight loss phase, and a lifetime weight maintenance phase. Also included is a strength and cardio training program. The strength training program consists of a resistance band workout, and the cardio program is simply walking. Other goodies in the book include recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, as well as a personalized weight loss formula which is based on how many pounds you want to lose.
All in all, its a pretty neat book, and to me, the program seems pretty complete and laid out in an easy to follow manner. I say give it a try if the thought of eating more fiber sits well with you. Also recommend The Sixty-Second Motivator for readers trying to lose weight as diets can't help you unless you're motivated to stick with them. Good luck.
Not impressed.......2007-08-21
This oh-so-simple formula gets complicated quite quickly.
There are shakes and bars to buy. There are formulas to work out. Oh, and you should really try for 45 g of fiber, instead of 35. And, you should purchase any number of supplements for maximum effect. And, you should drink 1/2 your body weight in oz of water each day but no, you won't spend all day running to the restroom (?)
This book restates the same information over & over and essentially rehashes the information already covered in her H.O.P.E. program on PBS. The only thing that seems to be new is the launch of Fiber 35-related products available for purchase. I tried some of the bars before I even purchased the book just because they were convenient and had healthy ingredients. They're not bad but I shudder at the thought of living primarily on prefab fiber shakes and bars for a month (not to mention what this might do to someone with a sensitive GI tract).
For those who are unfamiliar with fiber, Omega-3 oils, and general colon health, then this book might have some valuable information. For those who have read a wide variety of diet and nutrition programs, this sounds like the same song, second verse...restrict calories, increase fiber, increase water, increase exercise and make healthy food choices.
satisfaction guaranteed.......2007-07-22
The Fiber35Diet book is well written in plain english and quite readable. The background information in support of the actual diet regimen is superior and again easily understood and readable.
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With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.
Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)
As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"
That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy
Book Description
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:
€ Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty
€ Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
€ Plan projects as well as get them unstuck
€ Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
€ Feel fine about what you're not doing
From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
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"""The personal productivity guru"" (Fast Company) delivers powerful methods that vastly increase your efficiency and creative results-at work and in life In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to: Apply the ""do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it"" rule to get your in-box to empty Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations Plan projects as well as get them unstuck Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed Feel fine about what you're not doing From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down."
Customer Reviews:
Incredible Book.......2007-10-22
David Allen's methods (in conjunction with Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero series) have changed how I handle my work, for both my personal and professional life.
I am getting more done, and my stress level is drastically diminished. An empty inbox makes me happy. : - )
get SAVED now with simple, direct organizing techniques.......2007-10-15
Read GTD one time through. Hard to put down. Read it again to outline and make the knowledge my own. I'm like a born-again GTD evangelist. Like a true holy-roller I started doing as much as I could, as fast as I could because I have seen the light!
Projects that have been languishing on the back burner are now active and moving forward. Multiple stacks of piled paper are now neatly organized in a new lateral file cabinet. I didn't really have an inbox. Now I not only have an inbox, I'm spouting profound truths like, "there is no vision without an inbox."
Using my pda is no longer painful. I know right where my planning notes are. I can make notes that transform into clear thinking, then projects, then actions by context.
Save yourself, brother. GTD. This is the way.
Some Good Advice!.......2007-10-12
Allen's approach to managing yourself and your world is very good advice on how to be more productive and satisfied. This book is filled with practical, hands-on ideas, tips, tools, and techniques for more effective self-management. Many of us feel overwhelmed and out of control in today's fast-paced world. This book and the book Understanding: Train of Thought are great ways to get a handle on all that "stuff" in our lives and figure out how to better manage the flow of information that never seems to stop. Five stars all the way!
If you are not already naturally organized, then his process would be excruciating torture to you........2007-10-10
#1 if you are not already naturally organized, then I can only expect you will toss this book in the rubbish bin because his process would be excruciating torture to you. It is an in-depth, deep clean.
If you are already naturally organized and yet feel you are not truly maximizing the effort you are putting into it, then this is well worth the time to read.
I easily related to this book and took away a few productive processes. It is over all a helpful book on organizing beyond the ubiquitous to do list. He has clear steps to get stalled projects moving forward. Hammering the point that the frustrations you face in getting things done are in actuality your lack of dealing with the hard question of what is the next physical action I need to take with this to deal with it. That may very well be toss it in the rubbish or Make a phone call...
Unfortunately, more often than not his example of the next action step is make a call... I started to cringe half way through the book whenever he wrote "Finally, when it's time to actually do an action, LIKE MAKING A CALL..." Towards the end of the book I was saying out loud and laughing "What is our next action step... Oh, of course make a call!"
That one criticism aside, I am trying his tickler file concept and do find it useful. I have implemented his mind sweep to organizing myself before the week so as to be prepared to face all of the inevitable interruptions and schedule changes with ease while accomplishing my weekly objectives. Although, in my case frequently the next action step is "turn off the phone, IM and email" so that I can work.
It's That Next Step that Matters..........2007-10-09
David Allen's concise and useful guide is built largely on the idea that, while people "think" in terms of entire projects, human action can only be practically applied to one aspect of a project at any one time.
In order to be effective, and work intelligently,we must first diligently construct our catalog of things that "need" doing and then proceed to priortize them in terms of their relative importance. This is only list making, however the act of breaking each project down, in order of importance, into discrete action steps is a more complex intellectual process, and is where we often fail. It is not a complex concept, but even the very intelligent lose sight of it under the pressures of life and work.
I found it interesting that many of the key points emphasized by Allen were articulated by Earl Nightingale, a famous radio commentator, decades ago. They are no less true today. The difficulty is forming and maintaining the habit structure that enables us to be masters of work, rather than slaves to unfinished business.
Bob Moffit
Retired Executive & Industry Consultant
Book Description
The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century
"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't-which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.
Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a meal--at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.
We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?
Customer Reviews:
Must Read.......2007-10-25
This book is captivating from the first paragraph and a must read for anyone who wants to examine the way food gets to their table in this industrialized society.
Good, but too much of an advertisement.......2007-10-25
This book comes down hard on fast food and makes you think twice about corn and why so many farmers are growing it in such large quanities. It also comes down on the organic food movement making you question what makes foods organic. It even questions the morality of eating animals making a good case for being a meat eater. I like the criticism, but the overly sentimental passages about a farm in VA and the local food movement were overdone. Those sections felt a little like an infomerical. Still, it was persuasive enough to get me to look at food in the grocery store in a different light. I would recommend this book.
Fascinating.......2007-10-25
A fascinating view of our food supplies.
Apart from one very bad glaring mistake it is a damn good read.
The mistake? The brain does not need glucose to function. The brain functions perfectly well on ketones (derived from fat).
Apart from the above nonsense it is a great read.
This book is changing my life.......2007-10-23
I discovered Michael Pollan about ten years ago and happened to pick up his gardening book, "Second Nature", at a bookstore. Ten years later, I am still an organic gardener. His book about building, "A Place of My Own", was next and it really got me thinking about building and architecture. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" will surely change the way my family eats - it's fascinating, well-written, an easy read, and full of facts that will definitely change my life!
Everything you ever wanted to know about food - sure to change your perspective.......2007-10-22
I accidentally purchased this book at the airport bookstore for a recent 15-hour flight from Chicago to Delhi, primarily driven by the intriguing title (I used to be a vegetarian). It captivated me right from the very first few pages where Michael Pollan started narrating the contemporary agro-food industrial complex principally built around, believe it or not, a single crop known to us as golden Corn. His well researched and written treatise on the business of food and how it affects our culture, health (scourge of high fructose corn syrup and other corn derivatives), economy, and environment covers the entire spectrum from large agro businesses and food processing companies to sustainable "grass based" farms to modern day version of hunting and gathering in northern California.
You should NOT read this book if even one of the conditions apply: (1) you have nothing to do with food (2) English is your third language (3) you do not have to deal with modern society (4) you do not enjoy books which combine journalism, science, and exceptionally good writing. In other words, go ahead and get hold of this book (even if you have to sacrifice your dinner money) and it will be one of the best culinary decisions you would have ever made.
Pollan is primarily a journalist with a gift for both researching and penning down his thoughts. He well crafted prose reflects his careful and detailed understanding of the subject (which is food: whot it comprises, how it is grown/collected/hunted, processed, distributed, eaten and how it impacts our health, well being, and nature). Like a true journalist, he personally investigated many interesting aspects of food for this book. This led him to the large farming fields in Iowa where over the past few generations agriculture is now dominated with mechanized corn production, to slaughterhouses in Kansas where corn, animal waste and antibiotics fed cattle (which biologically evolved to eat grass and not grains) are raised in appalling conditions and sent to their "processing" in a fast moving pipe line. (Some of the details are rather disturbing and may force you to raise deeper questions, if not becoming an instant vegan.)
The second part of the book, dealing with sustainable farming, is most appealing and revealing. Here Pollan visits a grass-based farm in Virginia where cattle, chicken, grass, and humans create a sustainable cycle of life and provide a profitable production of tasty, fresh, and chemical free produce and meat for local consumption. Preserving his experiential credentials, Pollan finds himself rotating cattle over natural grass fields, gathering "happy" chicken roaming around in picturesque Shenandoah valley, and then also butchering some of them in a transparent and humane fashion (no one would let you inside a slaughter house where the cattle are killed, or some times partially killed before being processed). You are very likely to start exploring the nearest farmer's market in your suburbia after reading this section. Pollan also clarifies that not all organic food is sustainable and describes absurdities such as flying asparagus 6000 miles to an Organic super market in the USA. So the Whole Foods phenomenon is an improvement but not a panacea which not all of us fully realize!
The last section of the book focuses on hunting and gathering with all its moral and ethical complications. Pollan cites some well regarded writers who have philosophized hunting of all subjects. He takes us on a wile boar hunt in the Sonoma county near San Fransisco which is followed by one of the best short description of wile mushrooms and collecting them in Berkley and the high Sierras. Similar to the first two sections, this section also culminates in a grand meal utilizing meat, fruits, vegetables, and fungi personally collected, processed, and cooked by the author.
The Omnivore's Dilemma, however, is not a cook book on what to eat or how to eat and does not specify another dieting fad (even though it does literally covers many exotic dishes and their recipes). Instead it analyzes the reasons behind the rise of modern agro-food business, why it inproperly thrives in the name of efficiencies and conveniences, and how it is damaging the earth, health, and eventually economy. This chemical-based, energy-intensive, and environment-polluting approach has huge implications as China and India undergo rapid development, and if not careful, may blindly adopt similar models for food production, processing, and distribution. Pollan also notes that similar to the agro-food industrial complex, hunting and gathering is also another extreme and cannot scale to feed the current large populations.
So we are left to form our own opinions on how to proceed (as a producer, processor, and consumer) now that we are equipped with some useful tools built with knowledge embedded in this must have book. Don't be surprised if reading this book brings out the hidden activist or proselytizer in you!
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