You don’t have to wear those fat genes your family passed down to you—achieve healthier life from the host of TLC's Honey, We're Killing the Kids. Are human being just products of our environment and genetic blueprint? Or do we have some control? If we had family members that are overweight or obese and never learned healthy habits, are we doomed to the same fate? The answer is a hearty No! Felicia Stoler once struggled with her own “fat genes,” and now shows you how to take control of your own health. No more FADs (Fast Acting Diets) that don’t work. No more yo-yo’s or funny supplements. Here at last is a lifestyle plan based on dietary science that emphasizes nutrition, exercise, rest, and ever-tricky time management. Felicia knows time is often the biggest obstacle of healthy living—she is a busy working mother of two! This is not a “diet” you go on and off of, but a way of life for you and your whole family. It is time to focus on your best health, not just the numbers on the scale. It is time to ditch those fat genes forever! In Living Skinny in Fat Genes, Felicia's health plan discusses: All foods can fit. Never cut out entire food groups again! Learn from other cultures: Greek yogurt? Coconut milk? Couscous? Expand your horizons right on your plate and get away from fast food. Don’t be fooled by trends and fads—Food is fuel! Are you giving your body what it needs to run at its best? Quick and easy recipes and nutritious meals kick-start a healthier you.
You don’t have to wear those fat genes your family passed down to you—achieve healthier life from the host of TLC's Honey, We're Killing the Kids. Are human being just products of our environment and genetic blueprint? Or do we have some control? If we had family members that are overweight or obese and never learned healthy habits, are we doomed to the same fate? The answer is a hearty No! Felicia Stoler once struggled with her own “fat genes,” and now shows you how to take control of your own health. No more FADs (Fast Acting Diets) that don’t work. No more yo-yo’s or funny supplements. Here at last is a lifestyle plan based on dietary science that emphasizes nutrition, exercise, rest, and ever-tricky time management. Felicia knows time is often the biggest obstacle of healthy living—she is a busy working mother of two! This is not a “diet” you go on and off of, but a way of life for you and your whole family. It is time to focus on your best health, not just the numbers on the scale. It is time to ditch those fat genes forever! In Living Skinny in Fat Genes, Felicia's health plan discusses: All foods can fit. Never cut out entire food groups again! Learn from other cultures: Greek yogurt? Coconut milk? Couscous? Expand your horizons right on your plate and get away from fast food. Don’t be fooled by trends and fads—Food is fuel! Are you giving your body what it needs to run at its best? Quick and easy recipes and nutritious meals kick-start a healthier you.
Breakthrough genetic research indicates that genes are not just onoff switches for characteristics we can't control (like gender or eye color). Some genes, including those that shape our bodies, actually adapt to outside influences. In Turn Off the Fat Genes, Dr. Neal Barnard draws on this cutting-edge research to create a revolutionary new program for activating thin genes and suppressing fat genes, a dramatic tool for sculpting away excess pounds to reveal the healthy, vital body that nature intended. In Turn Off the Fat Genes, Dr. Barnard begins by explaining the dynamics of nutrition and its impact on genetics. Once you understand how the genes that control your shape can be influenced, the next step is positive intervention. The heart of Dr. Barnard's book is a three-week gene-control program (complete with menus and recipes) specifically designed to influence the five key genes that determine: (1) which foods you prefer, (2) the strength of your appetite, (3) whether your calories are burned or stored as fat, (4) how fast you burn calories, and (5) your muscular type and ability to exercise. Dr. Barnard's program enables all of us to enjoy the same virtually effortless weight control as the naturally thin people we have always admired.
Review: "a great book if you are sceptical about weight loss diets, confused by the competing claims of different approaches, and not sure of the way forward. It's a positive and supportive read that puts weight loss in perspective..."C Michael, journalist Product Description: If you want to know the medical evidence for the cause of weight problems, and which will be the most successful diet or exercise regime for you personally, then this book holds the answers. If you are overweight, it is not your fault but is due to your inherited genes combined with other factors. The tendency to eat automatically, "comfort" eating and the changes in modern food availability, can all contribute to a weight problem. Most people are unaware that weight is inherited to the same extent that height is inherited. People who lose weight, and successfully keep the weight off for a period of years, do so by following an individual plan. If having extra weight is not your fault, then why worry about it? Unless you are particularly vain, you will want to know whether there is likely to be an effect on your health. Being overweight or mildly obese is not likely to increase the chance of early death, and the association of weight with illness is put into perspective in Chapter 2. It has been found that larger people are often treated disrespectfully by the medical profession (they are the most common targets for derogatory humour from doctors) and you will also find strategies for dealing with this sort of discrimination in this book. You will want to know whether diets "work" and the medical evidence for their effectiveness. Chapter 3 looks at various diets, including the popular "intermittent fasting" diet, diets which vary proportions of fat, protein and carbohydrates, glycemic index diet, very low calorie diets (such as followed by Oprah years ago), commercial diets, meal replacements (such as Slim Fast), pre-packaged meals (such as Jenny Craig) and diet websites. Most diets cause weight loss in the first six months and this is often followed by partial or total regain. Long term success hinges on finding something that works for the individual, and this book aims to help the reader to find a regime that will work for them personally. It is a myth that exercise always helps with weight loss. In fact, some of us will lose weight with exercise, but others compensate by eating more. Chapter 4 will help you to decide which category you fall into. Men tend to lose weight with exercise and women get less relative benefit. Preventing weight regain is more difficult than losing it in the first place. Chapter 5 discusses the evidence that some strategies to avoid weight regain are much more successful than others. The sort of eating regime you have, the frequency of weight monitoring, and even the way in which you think about food, can all influence the likelihood of regaining weight. If you have a significant weight problem (and particularly if you are female) it is likely that you have come across prejudice associated with your size. There is discrimination in many areas - including employment, the media and transport. Studies show that those most likely to be prejudiced are conservative, racist men who are in favour of capital punishment and afraid of gaining weight themselves. Chapter 6 gives practical advice about how to cope with the stigma that can go with being overweight, and presents the evidence that the prejudice is unfounded. The final chapter will help you to work out the best way to manage your own weight problem. If you do have a weight problem, then the information in this book can help you to make an individual plan. This includes all aspect of weight issues, including whether you have an uncontrolled, emotional or restrained attitude to eating. Managing a weight problem on an individual basis is the way forward.
Is your shampoo making you fat? Can lettuce be worse for your waistline than avocado? What ingredient in diet food causes your body to put more fat in your abdomen? If you are frustrated with your weight, then you have not read this book. You are not stuck in your fat jeans or fat genes. Become a skinnier, healthier person reading the truth in Skinny Genes.
A biochemist shows how we can finally control our fat—by understanding how it works. Fat is not just excess weight, but actually a dynamic, smart, and self-sustaining organ that influences everything from aging and immunity to mood and fertility. With cutting-edge research and riveting case studies—including the story of a girl who had no fat, and that of a young woman who couldn’t stop eating—Dr. Sylvia Tara reveals the surprising science behind our most misunderstood body part and its incredible ability to defend itself. Exploring the unexpected ways viruses, hormones, sleep, and genetics impact fat, Tara uncovers the true secret to losing weight: working with your fat, not against it.
Two nutrition experts present a guide to losing weight that shows readers how to identify which of six gene-based types they are and build a weight loss plan based on individual physical and emotional needs.
Is your shampoo making you fat? When is lettuce worse for your waistline than avocado? Is your diet or "health" food really lethal cuisine? Unlock your skinny genes by learning the real steps to wearing skinny jeans for life and creating a healthier internal body. Dump your diet, unzip your genes, and get your skinny on by reading Skinny Genes.
Morbidly obese at 386 lbs, depressed and desperate, Santie Pretorius could see no way forward. Then she heard about weight loss surgery and made the decision that would change her life beyond her wildest dreams.This book tells the story of her journey to achieve an incredible weight loss of 230 lbs - 100% of her excess body weight - in a little over two years. It demonstrates the importance of the team approach of a Bariatric Center of Excellence, and the value of support from family and friends.Conflicted about whether or not to go ahead with bariatric surgery, Santie spent months reading and educating herself about the success factors involved. From her desperation came determination to succeed. Once she decided to go ahead, she worked with an unwavering commitment to physical fitness and psychological preparation in the growing belief that - this time - weight loss would be achievable and permanent. Following gastric bypass surgery, Santie committed fully to learning to eat well, live well, exercise to develop fitness, and have fun. This book is not only about overcoming obesity and discovering the slim person within; it is also an intensely personal and searingly honest account of overcoming depression and replacing self-hatred with healthy, balanced self-love.Santie Pretorius is a clinical psychologist, management development consultant and motivational speaker.ContributorsGraham Neil Stapleton, MBChB, FCS (SA), MMed, General SurgeonGraham Alexander, MA (Clin Psych) (SA), Clinical PsychologistClaire McMahon, BSc Med (Hons) (Nutrition and Dietetics) (SA), DieticianPhillo Beukes, MPhil (Sports Physio) (SA), Sports Physiotherapist
If you've struggled to lose weight, lost and regained weight, and have tried every diet out there, it's time to end this cycle of frustration. We have been taught a false concept of how to lose weight. We focus on a diet or exercise program to lose weight only to end the project with minimal results or a rapid weight regain. This book details not only the reason people have excess weight problems, but the underlying causes for the weight issues, and the proper medical treatment of Obesity and Overweight disorders. Overweight and Obesity are disease states and must be treated as such. This book outlines and details the five areas of treatment required to gain control of ones weight and how to reach our best weight and stay there for life. Dr. Oliver and Macie will take you through the real cause for your weight problem and then give specific details and a plan to lose the weight and remain healthy, vibrant, and thinner for life. Don't struggle any longer. Your Journey to a thinner, active life awaits you and Yes, you can have a body that feels great, looks great, and performs at maximum capacity.
