Different approaches to weight loss: diet plans
that stress low fat/high carbohydrate vs. high protein/low carbohydrate -- DawgByte
let's you choose the diet plan that suits you best--plus exercise plans to up your
metabolic rate-- . |
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The Complete Book of Food Counts
by Corinne T. Netzer
If you really want to analyze and/or change your diet, you need to know more than a
count of the calories you're taking in; you also need to know the fat, cholesterol, fiber,
and sodium. You get all this and more from The Complete Book of Food Counts, a 770-page
paperback that lists every food you can think of, including brand-name items. Each food is
analyzed by calories; grams of protein, carbohydrate, fat, and fiber; and milligrams of
cholesterol and sodium. |
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Eat More Weigh
Less : Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating
Abundantly
by Dean, M.D. Ornish
Combines practical weight-loss advice with 250 low-fat recipes by celebrated
chefs, in a guide that enables dieters to eat as much as they want while addressing such
issues as depression and poor self-image. Ornish shows how a low-fat
vegetarian diet is healthy, delicious, and also just the thing for those wanting
to loose weight. The first half of the book explains the plan in detail. The second half
of the book is full of tasty recipes |
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Strong Women Stay
Slim
by Miriam E. Nelson, Sarah Wernick, Wendy Wray
The basis of this book is simple: because muscle is metabolically active and
fat is not, when you increase your muscle mass, you're able to burn more calories, even
when at rest. The author, an assistant professor at Tufts University's prestigious School
of Nutrition Science and Policy, has shown that of a group of women who followed a special
weight-loss diet, those who also did weight-training exercises lost 44 percent more fat
than the other women and increased their overall metabolic rates by up to 15 percent.
Nelson's plan is especially effective for women looking to drop postpregnancy
weight. The book includes tests to determine your fitness level, injury-preventing
stretches, dumbbell exercises that give quick results, progress charts, and pages of
suggested menus and recipes that include handy shopping lists. The plan's goal is to
increase muscle strength, not bulk, and it's geared toward first-time exercisers and those
who lose motivation easily. For those who are skeptical of weight-loss books, rest assured
that this one won't disappoint. |
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Strong Women Stay
Young
by Miriam E., Ph.D. Nelson, Sarah, Ph.D. Wernick, Wendy Wray
A proven strength-training program for women outlines simple and safe exercises,
provides essential information on fitness and the body, and includes the stories of women
who have transformed their lives with strength training.
By the author of: Strong Women Stay
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Protein
Power: The Metabolic Breakthrough
by Michael R. Eades, Mary Dan Eades (Contributor)
Similar to Dr. Robert
Atkins's New Diet Revolution, the authors cite insulin as the main culprit in weight
gain and expound the benefits of a diet extremely low in carbohydrates. Carbohydrates,
which are changed into sugar during digestion, stimulate the body to store fat, making
weight loss virtually impossible. The most revolutionary idea put forth in Protein Power
is that the fat you eat has very little bearing on the fat you gain: in other words, we
aren't what we eat after all. Researchers have found that eating larger portions of
protein in conjunction with severely reduced portions of carbohydrates causes people to
burn the excess fat stored in their bodies. |
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Dr.
Atkins' New Diet Revolution
by Robert C., Md. Atkins
Designed to catapult your body into a state of fat meltdown, Dr. Atkins's diet
has taken America by storm. It targets insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar
levels. The bodies of most overeaters are continually in a state of hyperinsulinism; their
bodies are so adept at releasing insulin to help convert excess carbohydrates to fat that
there's always too much of the hormone circulating through the body. This puts the body
into a bind; it always wants to store fat. Even when people with hyperinsulinism try to
lose weight--especially when they cut fat but increase carbohydrate consumption--their
efforts will fail. This is why Dr. Atkins refers to insulin as "the fat-producing
hormone." |
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The Zone : A Dietary Road Map to Lose Weight Permanently : Reset Your
Genetic Code : Prevent Disease : Achieve Maximum Physical Performance
by Barry Sears, Bill Lawren
Barry Sears looks at why Americans still have dietary problems in spite of
following the advice of experts. Challenging the current recommendations for a high
carbohydrate diet, Sears looks into man's history as well as the diets athletes succeed
best on, to build a new dietary picture. Anyone looking for better health through an
improved relationship to what they eat should put this book on their list. With lists of
good and bad carbohydrates, easy-to-follow food blocks and delicious recipes, The Zone
provides all you need to begin your journey toward permanent fat loss, great health and
all-round peak performance. In balance, your body will not only burn fat, but you'll fight
heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression and cancer, as well as alleviate
the painful symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and HIV. This Zone state of
exceptional health is well-known to champion athletes. Your own journey toward it can
begin with your next meal. You will no longer think of food as merely an item of pleasure
or a means to appease hunger. Food is your medicine and your ticket to that state of
ultimate body balance, strength and great health: the Zone. |
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Zone
Anti-Aging Plan
by Barry Sears
Americans have been systematically overeating for the past 15 years, author Barry
Sears states, and thus cheating themselves out of longer, more functional lives. So
passionate is Sears about his central idea--eat less, live longer--that it seems as if he
has to deliberately put the brakes on his own voice to keep his theories from tumbling out
in one big incomprehensible jumble. (Even with the brakes on, many words--like
cal'rie--lose a syllable.) Sears makes the case that his high-protein,
low-carbohydrate, moderate-fat Zone diet plan will help people live to a riper old age.
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Sugar Busters! : Cut Sugar to Trim Fat
by H. Leighton Steward et al.
Once you've read Sugar Busters!,
you'll never look at a Snickers bar, a baked potato, or even a carrot stick in the same
way. Developed by three doctors and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, the basic theory of
this diet plan is that intake of too much sugar produces too much insulin, which prevents
you from losing weight. And since sugar hides in breads, other starches, and some
vegetables, following the plan means more than just cutting back on Twinkies. Author H.
Leighton Steward narrates the tape with a slow New Orleans drawl that takes some getting
used to, but he paces the information so you can catch the details. The diet is quite
simple, and since recipe cards are included, you should be able to implement the plan
immediately. |
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