Download or read book Why Diets Make Us Fat written by Sandra Aamodt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If diets worked, we'd all be thin by now. Instead, we have enlisted hundreds of millions of people into a war we can't win." What’s the secret to losing weight? If you’re like most of us, you’ve tried cutting calories, sipping weird smoothies, avoiding fats, and swapping out sugar for Splenda. The real secret is that all of those things are likely to make you weigh more in a few years, not less. In fact, a good predictor of who will gain weight is who says they plan to lose some. Last year, 108 million Americans went on diets, to the applause of doctors, family, and friends. But long-term studies of dieters consistently find that they’re more likely to end up gaining weight in the next two to fifteen years than people who don’t diet. Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt spent three decades in her own punishing cycle of starving and regaining before turning her scientific eye to the research on weight and health. What she found defies the conventional wisdom about dieting: ·Telling children that they’re overweight makes them more likely to gain weight over the next few years. Weight shaming has the same effect on adults. ·The calories you absorb from a slice of pizza depend on your genes and on your gut bacteria. So does the number of calories you’re burning right now. ·Most people who lose a lot of weight suffer from obsessive thoughts, binge eating, depression, and anxiety. They also burn less energy and find eating much more rewarding than it was before they lost weight. ·Fighting against your body’s set point—a central tenet of most diet plans—is exhausting, psychologically damaging, and ultimately counterproductive. If dieting makes us fat, what should we do instead to stay healthy and reduce the risks of diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related conditions? With clarity and candor, Aamodt makes a spirited case for abandoning diets in favor of behaviors that will truly improve and extend our lives.
Download or read book Always Hungry written by David Ludwig and published by Grand Central Life & Style. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Harvard Medical School expert and "obesity warrior" (Time magazine) Dr. David Ludwig rewrites the rules on weight loss, diet, and health in this guide to retraining your cells and reclaiming your health for life. Forget everything you've been taught about dieting. In Always Hungry?, renowned endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig explains why traditional diets don't work and presents a radical new plan to help you lose weight without hunger, improve your health, and feel great. For over two decades, Dr. Ludwig has been at the forefront of research into weight control. His groundbreaking studies show that overeating doesn't make you fat; the process of getting fat makes you overeat. That's because fat cells play a key role in determining how much weight you gain or lose. Low-fat diets work against you by triggering fat cells to hoard more calories for themselves, leaving too few for the rest of the body. This "hungry fat" sets off a dangerous chain reaction that leaves you feeling ravenous as your metabolism slows down. Cutting calories only makes the situation worse by creating a battle between mind and metabolism that we're destined to lose. You gain more weight even as you struggle to eat less food. Always Hungry? turns dieting on its head with a three-phase program that ignores calories and targets fat cells directly. The recipes and meal plan include luscious high-fat foods (like nuts and nut butters, full-fat dairy, avocados, and dark chocolate), savory proteins, and natural carbohydrates. The result? Fat cells release their excess calories, and you lose weight - and inches - without battling cravings and constant hunger. This is dieting without deprivation. Forget calories. Forget cravings. Forget dieting. Always hungry? reveals a liberating new way to tame hunger and lose weight for good.
Download or read book Hungry for More written by Adrienne Youdim and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger Hunger is emotional, hunger is spiritual, and hunger is universal. Overweight or not, our relationship with food is symbolic of our relationship with ourselves, and our hunger for food is symbolic of a deeper hunger that seeks to be understood. We are hungry for connection, for belonging, for understanding and for meaning. For over fifteen years, Dr. Adrienne Youdim has guided hundreds of people through their weight loss journeys. Through her extensive clinical experience, she understands that weight loss is not just a matter of calories. A change in our relationship with food can have a rippling effect transforming every aspect of our lives. With a desire to help others navigate the same waters she encounters in patient interactions every day, Dr. Youdim shares personal and patient stories, medical commentary and scientific research to help us understand our hunger once and for all. Hungry for More, Stories and Science to Inspire Weight Loss from Within is a blend of story and science to get to the heart of what we are truly hungry for. Follow along with her in this inspiring book as she and her clients discover the real triggers behind weight gain and how to conquer them for once and for all. These insightful, memorable essays on medical weight loss uncover the emotional and spiritual hunger behind our lifestyles and offer proven advice for overcoming them to achieve wellness and well-being. This inspirational and empowering book won't just help you lose a few pounds. It will fundamentally alter the way you look at yourself-in the mirror and beyond.
Download or read book Starving to Be Fat written by Marco Girgenti and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hungry and the Fat written by Timur Vermes and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times. "Whizz-bang energy and gleeful imaginative savagery" Sam Leith, Guardian "More than mere satire, it's a book that engages deeply" Alex Preston, Financial Times "An immensely enjoyable read" Daniel Hahn, Spectator "A caustic, clever satire with a powerful emotional core" Becky Long, Irish Times "Satirical, sharp, believable . . . Brilliant" Rick O'Shea, RTE REFUGEE CAMPS IN AFRICA ARE SWELLING And Europe has closed its borders. The refugees have no future, no hope, and no money to pay the vast sums now demanded by people smugglers. The only thing they have is time. AND THEN AN ANGEL ARRIVES FROM REALITY T.V. When model and star presenter Nadeche Hackenbusch comes to film at the largest of the camps, one young refugee sees a unique opportunity: to organise a march to Europe, in full view of the media. Viewers are gripped as the vast convoy moves closer, but the far right in Germany is regrouping and the government is at a loss. Which country will halt the refugees in their tracks? THE HUNGRY AND THE FAT A devastating, close-to-the-knuckle satire about the haves and have-nots in our divided world by one of Europe's finest and most perceptive writers. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Download or read book Why We Get Fat written by Gary Taubes and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.” —The New York Times What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management. Complete with an easy-to-follow diet. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.
Download or read book Eat Fat Get Thin written by Dr. Mark Hyman and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary diet program based on the latest science showing the importance of fat in weight loss and overall health, from #1 bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman. Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefits of a high-fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, oils, avocados, and other delicious superfoods. In his new book, bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman introduces a new weight-loss and healthy living program based on the latest science and explains how to Eat Fat, Get Thin, and achieve optimum wellness along the way. Offering practical tools, meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists, as well as step-by-step, easy-to-follow advice, Eat Fat, Get Thin is the cutting edge way to lose weight, prevent disease, and feel your best.
Download or read book Eating Free written by Manuel Villacorta and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are sick of yo-yo dieting and overly restrictive diets that limit carbs, or if you're stuck in a diet plateau, Eating Free can give you back the food and the life you love—while still helping you to lose weight. To date, 2,000 men and women have transformed themselves on the Eating Free program—with an 84% success rate of weight loss maintenance. Other diets, on average, have an 85% failure rate. Eating Free reveals why a little-known hormone, ghrelin, is wreaking havoc on your waistline; why almost everything you think you know about weight loss is wrong; and why what most Americans do in earnest to lose weight actually creates the Perfect Storm for them to gain weight! Eating Free is a refreshing change from diets that leave many Americans depressed, exhausted, and malnourished while stalling their motivation and metabolism. With Eating Free, you can lose the guilt, the misconceptions, and the weight—for good! Eating Free sets the record straight on these common myths, and many, many more. Myth 1: Exercise Is Critical for Success. Exercise is important for health, but not as critical for weight loss. You don't need to spend hours at the gym. Eating Free offers a realistic alternative to the gym-rat mantra by proving that weight loss is 80% nutrition and only 20% exercise. What's more, since exercise causes ghrelin levels to spike, hitting the gym may be more detrimental than hitting your snooze button. You'll learn how to shop, not sweat your way to being lean, and focus on preparing delicious food instead of exercising excessively. Myth #2: You Need to Cut Out Carbs. With Villacorta's formula for optimal weight loss—45% carbohydrate, 30% protein, and 25% fat—you will satiate your appetite by controlling the hunger hormone ghrelin and green-light a wide variety of delicious 'forbidden' foods (pasta, potato, rice, and chocolate) so you don't feel deprived. This formula prevents muscle breakdown and keeps you energized while losing weight. Myth #3: You Need to Track Your Weight Progress Daily. Instead of obsessing over what the scale reads each morning, you'll learn why it's more effective to gauge your body's needs in weekly increments. With a free online tool, The Free Q, you can score every lifestyle element that impacts your weight loss, including lots of stress and little sleep. This tool helps you live wisely for weight loss each week. No other program demonstrates how these elements play a critical role in weight loss with a free practical tool.
Download or read book Never Be Fat Again written by Raymond Francis and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fight Fat at Its True Source . . . Your Cells. An M.I.T.-Trained Scientist Explains the ONE Secret You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Keep It Off. Raymond Francis is the scientist people turn to when diets don't work. His groundbreaking approach treats excess weight for what it reall y is--a disease caused by malfunctioning cells. As Francis explains, many of the foods we eat every day, especially the 'health' and 'diet' ones we dutifully buy to lose weight, have the opposite effect . Full of hidden toxins and lacking nutrients, they actually poison your cells and alter your weight-control genes, causing your body to put on the pounds. Like he's done for thousands of other people, Raymond Francis can help you turn this fat cycle around and reclaim your waistline--and your health. His simple yet scientifically supported plan will have you looking and feeling better than you have in years-- in just six weeks. You'll discover: Which low-fat and no-fat products actually make you fatter How one missing nutrient can signal your body to store fat Which food additives are most toxic--and how to spot them on a label The 'Big 4' worst foods to eat--with delicious and nutritious alternatives How to sneak more fiber- and nutrient-rich foods into your day Plus, delicious recipes for meals and snacks and week-by-week to-do lists to keep you on track Your body already knows how to regulate its weight--you just need to give it a fighting chance. Now you can--for life.
Download or read book The Hungry Brain written by Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D. and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.
Download or read book Always Hungry written by David Ludwig and published by Orion. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALWAYS HUNGRY? will be both a relief and a revelation to many who struggle with weight. We're not getting fat because we're overeating; we're overeating because we're getting fat. In other words, what makes us constantly hungry, overweight, and undernourished is not a lack of will power, but a biological reaction to our present-day diet and lifestyle. Our fat cells are hoarding the nutrients from the food we eat instead of releasing them into the bloodstream to be used, triggering a starvation response that sets us up for failure: if we eat more, we'll gain weight; if we eat less, we'll slow our metabolism down and (again) gain weight. HELP! ALWAYS HUNGRY shows us how to break out of this cycle that is keeping us overweight. It helps us to: - re-programme our fat cells - tame humger - boost our metabolism - lose weight In a clear, compassionate, and authoritative voice, Dr Ludwig debunks the calorie myth that losing weight is simply a matter of eating less. He explains the science and the research behind our epidemic of overweightness and presents a detailed, highly structured plan to help us conquer the cravings.
Download or read book The Ice Cream Diet written by Holly McCord and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides recipes, exercise advice, and meal plans utilizing ice cream to lose weight, alleviate PMS symptoms, lower blood pressure, and reduce the risk of colon cancer.
Download or read book Dieting Made Simple written by Ransford Sterling and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Sterling has released his long awaited "Dieting Made Easy." Try Dieting Made Easy and loose unwanted pounds in days. Always remember, your body is alive, so do not underestimate it. Think of your Brain in terms of the bodies Computer. Without your Computer nothing on your body would function. Now consider the Body itself, it is there solely as a life support system for your Computer and no part of the life support system operates without first getting a signal from its Computer. Every limb connected to your life support system is there to perform a definite job with only one goal; to keep your Computer alive. With this said, the problem with dieting is no Computer likes to deprive its life support system of what's been given to it. As you intake food, the stomach portion of the life support system notifies its Computer that it has met the required amount to sustain all life support systems. When you over eat the stomach has no other choice but to store the overflow into what is called fat cells. What happens when you decide to go on a diet is the stomach alerts its Computer that less food is being taken in and this forces the Computer to notify the life support system to release the fat cells. Because those fat cells have been stored for so long the Computer considers them a vital part of its existence and a starvation alert occurs and that sets into motion whatever plan it feels it needs to hold on to those fat cells. An Army is sent throughout the life support system to fight this food loss. This is why dieting is so hard because most of the time the Army wins by convincing your subconscious to stop dieting. By following the guidelines in the book you will be on your way to loosing weight without alarming your Computer. Look for other books by Ransford Sterling and become a fan.
Download or read book The Weight of Being written by Kara Richardson Whitely and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutally honest story about being fat in America--and one woman's experience with radical weight loss after a lifetime of fat shaming Kara Richardson Whitely thought she could do anything. After all, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro-three times! But now she's off the mountain and back home again, and there's one thing she just can't manage to do: lose weight. In many ways, Kara is living the life of everywoman, except that she's not everywoman because she weighs 300 pounds and is tormented by binge eating disorder. Her weight is a constant source of conflict and shame, as the people from every corner of her life, from her coworkers to the neighbors down the street, judge Kara for the size of her body. When it becomes just too much to tolerate, Kara turns to therapy and weight-loss surgery, a choice that transforms her body-and her life. Kara's story is one of living as a fat woman in America, where fat prejudice is rampant despite our nation's pandemic of obesity. In this fresh, raw memoir, Kara reveals this epic contradiction, and offers a revealing comparison of life before and after radical weight loss.
Download or read book Fat Detection written by Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste TransductionA bite of cheese, a few potato chips, a delectable piece of bacon - a small taste of high-fat foods often draws you back for more. But why are fatty foods so appealing? Why do we crave them? Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects covers the many factors responsible for the se
Download or read book The Weight Loss Cure they Don t Want You to Know about written by Kevin Trudeau and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a revolutionary plan that helps readers to reshape their body, get rid of abnormal fat, increase their metabolism, eliminate hunger and food cravings, and reveals why the food industry wants to keep the population fat.
Download or read book The Boring Diet written by Tom Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if it were possible to lose body fat without hunger? Based on the latest research into the how and why of the obesity crisis, The Boring Diet shares a practical plan, accidentally discovered by the author, to lose excess weight, preserve lean body mass, and get control over your hunger. In this exciting and groundbreaking book you'll learn: Why most diet plans work - for a while - but then stall out. Why low carb and keto are "half right" and why our body's particular pleasure response to food, not insulin particularly, is the more effective cause of obesity. How a groundbreaking approach to alcohol and drug therapy can be applied to the problem of addictive food. The biochemistry of food addiction, written in easy-to-understand language. How two studies involving a mystery "goop" and rats eating supermarket food provide clues to the causes of obesity. Why hunger is a relative concept, and how your body uses it to trick you into eating junk food. How to attack hunger from two directions by making your food environment less interesting - boring! - and providing healthy alternatives. The foods you absolutely must eliminate from your environment if you are to have any hope of success. Why low carb diets work, if followed, but also why they almost always eventually fail. How Hollywood stars routinely gain and lose weight for movie roles. The "BCAT" method for silencing your nagging hunger. What a drug with a miraculous ability to cure alcoholism - if the right procedure is followed - can teach us about combatting food addiction. A simple sample meal plan that applies all of the principles of the book. Why The Boring Diet is a simple, but not easy, way to retrain your brain's relationship to food. Why you should weigh yourself daily. How following The Boring Diet imperfectly can still produce great results. The purpose of exercise and why it's important for physical and mental health but has almost no impact on weight loss. Why the "Valley of Fat Loss" makes it so difficult to stick with a weight loss effort to achieve true fitness. Why people who are already at a healthy weight need to implement the principles of The Boring Diet to ensure continued fitness in our "obesogenic" society. The Boring Diet should be read by everyone who struggles with excess weight. Utilizing the latest concepts in biochemistry, neuroscience, addiction science, and how these were applied in the author's personal journey to maintain weight loss over more than a decade, The Boring Diet is a short, concise, easy-to-read solution. In the author's words: "I don't recommend taking my advice blindly, but testing it for yourself. I'm not a doctor, just an independent, analytical thinker. I have had some success in business, which helps me sort through complex information amid uncertainty to develop practical plans of action. The doctors don't seem to have the answers either, given the obesity epidemic. I hope what I say makes sense and is useful to you, but test it for yourself, take what's useful, and discard the rest."
