Dec
31
The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet The Proven Program for Lasting Weight Loss through Fat Burning Foods
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Cathi Graham lost over 186 pounds and kept if off for more than 20 years with a simple diet secret.
In 1982, Cathi Graham tipped the scales at 326 pounds and her doctor scribbled three words on her medical chart that would forever change her life: “patient morbidly obese.” Horrified, she began intensive research and discovered the power of thermogenic foods—foods that stimulate your metabolism and help you burn fat.
The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet explains this revolutionary way to lose weight, and helps you create an overall plan to reduce your weight for a healthier life. Thermogenic foods, such as hot peppers, apple cider vinegar, salsa, and celery, help you lose weight no matter what your body type.
Complete with inspirational stories from people who have lost weight on the diet, The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet provides an eating plan to fit your specific needs and body type, including a special program to help end emotional eating.
A literal life-saver for people dealing with a diagnosis of morbid obesity as well as an effective diet for anyone who wants to shed pounds, The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet is a tried and trusted way to lose weight and keep it off. 15 photos.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Not as expected
I thought the book was informative. However, She often referred you to her web-site which did not provide the additional information as suggested. Overall I thought the book was a good food guide.
2 Stars There are better books out there.
I tend not to trust books that are full of weird before-and-after pictures where backgrounds have been changed, and the people pictured are clearly making efforts to look like total crap in the before pictures, and are make-uped and sucking it in in the after shots.
The fact is, pictures of 20 people who claimed to lose weight based on the plan in your book doesn’t convince me of anything. I could tell the general population to eat nothing but butter for three months, and I can practically guarantee you that someone out there will lose weight based on my plan. Welcome to the mind-boggling disaster that is human nutrition.
The basis of this book is that adding certain “thermogenic” foods to your diet will boost your metabolism and help you effortlessly lose weight. There is SOME truth to this, ingredients such as cayenne pepper and cinnamon have all been scientifically proven to raise metabolism–very, very slightly. It’s not going to have some magical fat-burning effect if you add these items to your normal diet. If you’re overweight, you’re still going to have to cut your calories and exercise.
Not that this book doesn’t say that–half the book is about cutting calories and dieting. It’s just all tucked nicely in the chapters AFTER the ones saying that putting Tabasco in your V8 will make you lose 8 dress sizes.
Plus, this book claims that people with “apple” body shapes (although the book inexplicably refers to them as “peaches”) should slash out carbs to drop the belly fat.
Fact: Carbs do not specifically create belly fat. Never did, never will.
All the food we eat, protein, carb or fat, is broken down and either used or stored by the body. If you eat too many calories from steak, you’ll store fat just like if you eat too many calories from bread. And cutting out entire food groups isn’t going to “melt” fat from any specific part of your body. All it’s going to do is deprive your body of the nutrients you would normally gain from that food group. It may help you cut calories overall, leading to weight loss, but to what effect? Yes, I realize your body does go into a special state on a no- or extremely low-carb diet: ketosis. But even the magical *cough*harmful*cough* effects of ketosis don’t SPECIFICALLY burn belly fat.
The fact is, if your genes are programmed to hold onto fat in your middle, it’s going to be really tough for you to lose fat in your middle. Not impossible, just tough. Eliminating a food group isn’t going to start taking fat away from one specific area. Think about it, if food were that magical, why wouldn’t scientists have discovered a food that increases fat in breast tissue?
The only thing that “apples” really should be doing more so than “pears” is monitoring their stress levels. Visceral fat is specifically there to store fat for times of “famine”–i.e. stress. It’s an emergency fuel tank. So if you’re under constant, chronic stress, your body may be storing excess fat. Otherwise, you should be eating a healthy, reasonable diet and getting exercise to lose weight, just like everyone else. No magical fixes, sorry.
Not everything in this book is bad. It has some sound advice, and may be especially appealing to “emotional eaters.” However, I don’t see any of the actual good advice as “earth-shattering” and I think a lot of what it has to say is misleading to make people think losing weight is going to be some quasi-effortless salsa festival. It’s simply not true, and any book that conveys that message is a joke.
5 Stars Excellent Diet
This really works and the foods mentioned taste good as well. A great way to get your metabolism stoked and running to the max. I actually lost 7 pounds in 3 days. The food is a little hard to find but it is worth the effort if you want to lose weight quickly.
Dec
31
Posture Get It Straight Look Ten Years Younger Ten Pounds Thinner and Feel Better Than Ever
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Posture Get It Straight Look Ten Years Younger Ten Pounds Thinner and Feel Better Than Ever
It’s true - improving your posture can make important differences in the way you look and feel. Like many people, though, you may think that your posture is hopeless, especially after years of slouching, slumping, or working in positions that have strained your muscles and stressed your body This fully illustrated guide shows you how to beat bad posture habits and demonstrates easy strengthening exercises that start working right away. Make yourself a promise to learn these simple techniques - and enjoy the rewards of better posture today!
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars If You Suffer From Poor Posture, You Will Find This Book Helpful
There are millions of people who suffer from poor posture or clinically known as Postural Distortion Syndrome. And I am quite sure that many of us including myself have heard our mothers and spouses tell us to straighten up. In fact, countless experts have attributed such health problems as arthritis, sore necks, back pain, leg pain, digestive problems, headaches, obesity, and other chronic physical symptoms to poor posture.
According to Janice Novak, author of Posture Get It Straight, just straightening up is not the answer. Novak goes onto inform us that when most of us try to improve our posture, we jam the shoulders back, suck in the bellies, and stand stiff as soldiers. The problem with this, as Novak states, is that it is very difficult to sustain this position for more than a few seconds, but moreover, it does not align the body properly. The position feels and looks unnatural and uncomfortable. Our bodies are meant to function from a position of balance and equilibrium and here is where the techniques outlined in Posture Get It Straight come into play.
Novak is considered to be a leading posture expert and her unique posture program was developed over a period of twenty years as she worked with individual clients as well as presenting thousands of workshops for hospitals, universities, and professional organizations. She holds a master’s degree in health and physical education and has been quoted in several magazines including Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Muscle & Fitness, Natural Health, and American Baby. In addition, she can often be heard on radio and seen on television.
In Posture Get It Straight readers are presented with a step-by-step guide as to how to stand straighter instantly and how to keep yourself standing straighter through a combination of stretching and strengthening exercises as well as practical tips for better posture.
The 136 -page book divides itself three parts, an epilogue and an index. The first part is a general overview where we are given the tools to assess our posture, and shown why we suffer from poor posture as well as what constitutes good posture. An entire chapter demonstrates how to have better posture instantly where we are given six tips entitled One Minute to Better Posture Technique wherein this technique will get our ears, shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles in a direct line. According to Novak, it will help us have been posture immediately.
From this opening section, Novak goes onto explore common posture problems where she deals with heads that slump forward, general slumping, rounded shoulders, lower back alignment, strengthening the abdomen, knees, feet and ankles. To correct these problems, Novak provides her readers with numerous illustrated simple exercises.
The last part shows us how to have good posture all day long when sitting at our computers, planes, trains and automobiles as well as sleeping positions, lifting objects safely, good posture for sports and workouts, hobbies. There are also chapters that explore eating for stronger muscles and bones, as well as mothers who suffer from new baby backache blues, and a section dealing with osteoporosis and posture.
The Epilogue counsels when to seek medical care as when you may have been in a car accident or have fallen, when you have a feeling of numbness or tingling or a shooting pain into your buttocks or legs and the pain is sharp or stabbing, when there is a stiffness or a decrease in range of motion, weaknesses in the ankle, big toe, hand, fingers, or a loss of gripping in your hand, a neck pain that lasts for more than ten days or one that is accompanied by fever or nausea that many be symptoms of meningitis.
It should be pointed out, as mentioned in the disclaimer to the book, that the instructions, procedures and advice in the book are in no way intended as a substitute for medical counselling. Before attempting any of the exercises in the book it is highly advisable that you consult with your physician and physical therapist.
What I found quite helpful is the index that lists the exercises and stretches contained in the book along with their page references.
Written in straight- forward language with ample excellent illustrations, Posture Get It Straight is not meant to be the last word on improving posture, but should prove to be a good starting point for those who wish to take the first step.
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor Bookpleasures
5 Stars Order the book, AND the DVD.
I was considering buying the “Posture Alignment” book by Paul D’Arezzo, but decided to buy “Posture, Get It Straight…” by Janice Novak along with the DVD. And boy, am I ever satisfied with both items. I find the book to be very easy to read, with basic, but invaluable information. The exercises/stretches are simple to do, but you’ll feel completely refreshed/satisfied/better after doing them.
I particularly loved the section on food intake and the specific amount of calcium/potassium/magnesium/vitamins and other minerals and supplements that your body require on a daily basis, in order to have not just healthy bones, but an overall healthy body.
Not to say the exercise instructions on the book is difficult to follow, but if you’re the type of person that benefit greatly from visual examples, then the DVD is the perfect accompaniment to the book. It takes a lot of the exercises (not all) directly from the book and put it into visual form for you to understand. For some reason, the reviewers for the DVD version neglect to mention this fact, but there’s a resistance band that’s included with the DVD. You’ll find the book has a lot of exercises that required the use of a resistance band. However, if you get the DVD, you’ll have all the necessary tools to get started toward a healthy body.
I absolutely recommend the book and the DVD, 5 Stars, anything less is an insult to Janice Novak’s 20+ years of experience and her programs.
4 Stars Read this!
Posture, Get it Straight! discusses the widely overlooked secret to long term health care–our posture and how it affects our body, attitudes and outlook on life. More often than not we are reminded that exercise is needed to keep off weight while posture is not discussed. The good news is that regardless of the condition your posture is in, Janice Novak suggests it can immediately be corrected and improve your well being by simply adjusting sitting or standing positions.
Using her suggested stretching exercises to help limber up muscles, trains them for straight posture. My favorite sitting exercise is the trapezoid stretch, which I use when I find myself hanging my head forward while working on the computer. I was amazed to learn that sleeping with a pillow between the knees not only protects the lower back alignment and prevents the weight of the thigh from pulling on the hip socket; it also protects the posture.
After several weeks of using the suggested stretches the author offers, I discovered that good posture affects every area of our lives whether it is recreational or work related.
This book is an excellent reminder that good health begins with posture and that it does play a significant role in our personal long-term care. Who knew that something so simple that harkens back to my mother telling me to straighten my shoulders would be something I still need to be reminded of!
Armchair Interviews says: With so many of us getting computer-itist, this is a great book to put us back in order.
5 Stars Practical advice, easy to put in practice
I like doing things the easy way with the least amount of work and that’s why I found “Posture, Get It Straight” to be invaluable. The drawings help me understand what I’m supposed to be doing and the author is very complete with explanations and instructions.
Because I sit at a computer for most of my workday, I tend to become round in the shoulders and both my neck and mid back get very sore. There is a chapter called “The ABCs of computer comfort” that explains how to set up your mouse, monitor, keyboard and chair so that you put the least amount of stress on your various body parts. One thing the author mentions that never occurred to me is to tilt the monitor so it can be viewed with bifocals. I’ve been perching my glasses on the end of my nose and bending my neck to get just the right view. No more!
There are lots of exercise and stretches to do to build muscles in various areas and they actually feel good to do. The exercises can easily be done around the house using walls and chairs as props but some require the use of a resistance band. I particularly like the door frame stretch for shoulders and chest and the foot exercises to help strengthen arches that get beat up from wearing high heels.
Other chapters in “Posture, Get it Straight” cover how to sit on a plane or in an automobile, how to choose a pillow and how to sit while doing crafts. Whether your concern is posture while pregnant or how to avoid osteoporosis, you will find some practical suggestions.
The subtitle of the book is, “look ten year younger, ten pounds thinner, & feel better than ever!” I think it must be true because since I’ve been practicing better posture, people have asked me if I’ve lost weight.
I’d recommend this book to anyone of any age. It will help you understand how your body works and how you can use your body more efficiently by keeping it aligned.
Dec
30
Conquer the Fat Mental Makeover
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Conquer the Fat Mental Makeover
Learn to achieve the body and health of your dreams by conquering all obstacles in your path. This book teaches you how to apply success principles to your weight loss approach. Most people are doomed for weight loss failure before their start. By strengthening your mental approach, you can defeat those roadblocks that halt the progress of millions seeking weight loss.
Dec
30
Death to Diabetes The Six Stages of Type 2 Diabetes Control and Reversal Version 1 0
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Death to Diabetes The Six Stages of Type 2 Diabetes Control and Reversal Version 1 0
This book explains the 4 major root causes of Type 2 diabetes and how to properly control and reverse the disease. This is based on an easy-to-follow, systematic 6-stage process, 200 clinical studies/medical references, and the experience of an ex-diabetic engineer. This book will help you learn how to: Retrain your body to increase its glucose uptake and utilization of insulin, using 5 key nutrients; Avoid the 7 most common mistakes that diabetics make; Save time and money in preparing nutritious meals that lower glucose levels; Enjoy exercise in less time while increasing glucose uptake and energy level; Use your blood glucose test results to reduce your insulin resistance; Enjoy your favorite foods without increasing your glucose level; Select quality nutritional supplements based on 7 key criteria; Determine the 8 core nutritional supplements for most diabetics and the 4 critical nutrients to optimize exercise results; Use the wellness protocols to prevent, control or reverse problems with the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart; and, lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and homocysteine; Control appetite and eliminate food cravings; Program your body to burn fat and lose weight (fat) permanently; Use your inner spirit to reduce your stress and improve your physical and mental health; and, Work with your doctor to safely wean yourself off the drugs. In addition, this book defines the 5 super foods, the 5 “dead” foods, a Super Meal Model and the 8 “living” elements (activities) — all designed to work synergistically to reduce insulin resistance, increase glucose uptake, burn fat, and repair the sick cells.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The ONLY book a diabetic needs! With cookbook of course.
Thank you Dewayne for sharing what you have learned with all of the rest of us. I am so grateful for the courage he had to not only get through his experience but keep going on to success in what must have been a very scary situation. He had no example before him to follow. I cant say enough good about this book!I have read and re-read it and will continue to do so until I also am no longer a diabetic.I am getting every diabetic person I know to read the book. I have learned from my own personal experience that what he is saying is the truth. I just ordered his cookbook.I started following the advice in his book and my numbers went to normal for the first time probably since I was a teen.
1 Star Extremism is not a good thing.
Perhaps it is true, but anecdotal evidence is not good evidence. Perhaps this worked for the author, but having consulted a couple of Dr.s, (also anecdotal), it has been suggested to me that I should consider something a bit more balanced. It is possible to end diabetes, without having to go to such extremes.
5 Stars Death to Diabetes
This book has helped me considerably! I have recommended this book to everyone that I know suffering from diabetes. This is a ‘Must have’ for Type II’s!
5 Stars The Valuable Knowledge in This Book Can Change Your Life
This is a fantastic book on how to manage, control and perhaps reverse Type II Diabetes. The author Mr. DeWayne McCulley who has a background in biochemical engineering really did his research on the subject of Type II Diabetes. This book is first hand knowledge from the author who had almost died from and then was able to reverse the disease. The book is very clearly written, understood and so down to earth that once I started reading it I didn’t want to put it down. I am so excited about how the plan has helped me to bring my sugar glucose and cholesterol back to normal, eat healthy, plus lose and maintain weight.
This is my story:
In November 2007 I went to my doctor for my yearly physical exam and discovered that I had an A1C level of 7.5 and a cholesterol level of 267. After following the diet and exercise plan in this great book my progress report was excellent. I went back for a check-up in May 2008 and my doctor was very pleased and surprised. My A1C had gone from 7.5 to 5.8 and my cholesterol count went from 267 to 160.
This book is a must to have for Type II Diabetics, those with a pre-diabetic glucose level, plus those who want to learn about how to manage high blood pressure and lower high cholesterol. It is all explained thoroughly in this fantastic book! I have even bought it as a gift for friends and family members.
3 Stars Death to Diabetes
I didn’t find this book as enlightening as I thought it would be. I am not into Detoxing the body as the author is.
I think the write-up to promote the book should have indicated that this book is religious in nature as well as an opinion of the author.
On the positive side, there are some correct facts and to some could be very motivational.
Dec
29
Breaking the Fat Pattern The Diet Detectives Plan to End the Cycle of Yo Yo Dieting
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Breaking the Fat Pattern The Diet Detectives Plan to End the Cycle of Yo Yo Dieting
In Breaking the Fat Pattern, Charles Stuart Platkin, “The Diet Detective,” explores the behavioral reasons why, when we lose weight,we always gain it back, offering as an antidote a ten-step process for identifying and replacing our “fat patterns.”
Research has proven that fad diets are misguided and that the only way to permanently lose weight is through behavioral and lifestyle modification. Learning to identify and break one’s fat patterns enables readers to relearn how to create a relationship with food and fitness that is comfortable and maintainable.
