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Book Description Amazon.com Exclusive: Your purchase ofYOU: On a Dietincludes a 30-minute DVD with workouts designed for beginners, moderate, and regular exercisers--all done so you can exercise without lots of equipment.
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 bestsellingYOUseries, 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. InYOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the-skin 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 Dietis 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 Dietwill 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 theYOUDiet andYOUWorkout. 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 Managementwill 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.
Amazon.com Exclusive "Fat Chances: The Secret Story of What's in Your Belly" by Michael F. Roizen, MD, and Mehmet C. Oz, MD Whether you're carrying a few extra pounds of fat on your thighs or a suitcase's worth in your belly, it's hard not to think about fat. You feel it when you walk, you roll on it when you sleep, and you curse it when you try to slide into last year's jeans. But while most of us are intimately familiar with how fat looks on the outside, we're not quite as familiar with how it works on the inside.
As we explain inYOU: On a Diet, we believe that tochangeyour body, you need to know your body.
In the simplest form, everyone knows the formula for gaining weight. Daily buckets of ranch dip plus photo-album-sized hunks of cheesecake plus a life of couch-dwelling equals a very unfortunate conclusion: too-frequent popped buttons.
But many of us really don't know how fat works and how it works against us. Here's the inside story on the story of your insides.
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Amazon.com Exclusive YOU: On a Diet--The Shopping List Print out this exclusive shopping list, created by Michael F. Roizen, MD, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and UnitedHealthcare, to get a jumpstart on the waist-reducing, health-boosting plan you'll find inYOU: On a Diet.
Elisa Zied, registered dietitian, freelance writer, and author As a registered dietitian, I often approach diet books with some skepticism, as I have found many popular ones to be too gimmicky, too extreme, nutritionally imbalanced, or too unrealistic to be followed over the long-haul. Imagine my surprise when I read You on a Diet. As Drs. Roizen and Oz have done in the past, here they have managed to simplify science and draw attention to the health perils of having too much body fat (especially in the abdominal region) in a witty, warm, encouraging, positive, and entertaining way. They explain in simple, easy to understand language how to reprogram your body to support healthful weight loss. Along the way, they encourage people to consume more protein, fiber, and healthful unsaturated fats, and less saturated fats, trans fats, and sugar, all of which can certainly support weight management efforts and have heart-health and other benefits as well.
Too many diet books preach quick fixes and ask you to forego too many foods in pursuit of a thinner physique; instead, this book takes a very positive approach, shows people what to consume more of, supports regular physical activity, and encourages people to set realistic goals--instead of striving for model-thinness, it asks people to aim simply to lose some inches from their guts which can improve not only their physical appearance but their health as well. Perhaps the greatest strength of this book is its light and encouraging tone, not to mention the illustrations which make it an easy and enjoyable read.
Having lost more than 25 pounds myself, and having maintained a healthy body weight for more than 10 years, I know first hand how tough it is to lose weight. For me it was a slow, gradual process that took years. I would have found this book quite useful about 15 years ago (before I became a registered dietitian) when I started to change my eating and fitness habits, and now am happy to have a popular diet book to recommend to clients and the lay public.
Although calorie counting is not emphasized in the book, my experience shows that when you embark on weight loss, you need to first know where you're starting from in terms of calories; also, knowing something about the calorie content of the foods and beverages you consume can help you when you hit a plateau and your weight seems to stall at a certain level despite your continued efforts to lose weight. And while the menu plans and recipes in this book seem sound and do-able, they include few low-fat dairy foods and other non-dairy sources of calcium which may make it tough for many to meet their calcium and/or vitamin D needs without supplementation. Also, because the menu plans do not include many of the foods people in America commonly consume, such as refined foods including pizza and pasta, and snack/dessert type foods (many of which are admittedly low in nutrients and high in calories), following these plans to the letter may make people feel that they are in fact on a "diet" and that they have to eat very differently than they normally do to lose weight. This can make following the program a challenge over the long-term.
Overall, You on a Diet can be a useful resource and motivator, and can be quite helpful resource for those who are tired of extreme dieting and want to start living as they pursue a healthier weight. This book makes a great bookshelf addition for anyone who is willing to take the time to learn how the body works to improve their overall eating habits, get more fit, and lose weight for life.
Changing your perception of food When I visited Nicaragua a few years ago, I noticed there were virtually no overweight people. Like many nations in the Global South, there is a lot of poverty. When I lived with a Nicaraguan family, I ate with them, and they gave me as much as I wanted; but I still ended up losing a lot of weight during my trip. I think it was because I didn't feel an urge to "pig out," nor did I have food advertisements in my face all of the time. I also just had so many other activities to occupy my time, like playing soccer with kids, and practicing my Spanish. If I were to write a diet book, I'd recommend global travel before surgery (Groups like Global Exchange provide non-touristy travel experiences). A change of perspective can accomplish a lot. Also, I'd recommend going to those organic food stores like "Wild Oats" and "Whole Foods." They have all sorts of healthy foods available, and books by doctors like Andrew Weil that I think are helpful.
For the young people, I like to share the DVD "Super Size Me!" so they acquire a critical perspective of the marketing done by the fast food industry. When I stopped eating fast food, I lost about 30 pounds.
There are other ways we can entertain or comfort ourselves than through food. Maybe studying Buddhism will help us identify some of the emotions that have us looking through our refrigerators when maybe we should be looking through our hearts for the answers to our weight struggles.A Shout heard around Rooftops! My review for "You on a Diet" will be short and sweet (metaphorically, not calorically!). I am guilty of experimenting with every diet known to man, woman, and child.
Weight has been lost by me in most countries in the world. Subsequently, It has been recaptured in every city, town, (ok, at least most of them) and state in the United States of America.
Sinatra said it best in song (forgive my faulty paraphrasing): I have been up and down and big all around, each time I found myself flat on my face, I picked myself up and got back on a diet!
Now, not in a shy way, (after each meal) I can shout from rooftops: No more! No more! No more! Since discovering, reading, and following the exquisite game plan in this delicious book (no, I did not eat it), the weight is gone and has not returned.
Others have told me I have a gleam in my eyes and a certain spring in my step. And, best of all -- a smaller waist size! This review is over (all this talk about food has made me hungry!). Buy the book, lose the weight, and shout it from the rooftops!
Reginald V. Johnson, author, "How To Be Happy, Successful And Rich"
