I'd like to think I came up with that one myself, but I have a feeling it was on the jacket
cover of a diet book I was reading at the library.
Although there are a
lot of diet books and tapes on the market, finding the best one for YOU is the key to successful weight loss.
It seems that over the past 15 to 20 years,
hundreds of diet books have been printed, and no two were identical.
Every year
tons of diet books hit the shelves, all having the ultimate answer and magic formula for making pounds disappear.
(Ifthere was one, the
number of diet books at your local bookstore would probablybe cut in half overnight.)
Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes (Alfred A. Knopf) Taubes's latest addition to the crowded
genre of diet books dismisses as folly the common wisdom of calorie counting.
You only have to look at the
amount of diet books there are on the shelves, and how many ads for meal replacements and weight loss programs there are on TV to know that we are all struggling to find a healthy balance between what we put in our mouths, and how we feel about ourselves.
Water for weight loss
Plenty of diet books will tell you that guzzling water is the secret to fighting the battle of the bulge.
Considers the
influence of the diet book industry on what people eat, the diets they choose for themselves, and how that interacts with the principle of bio-individuality.
This has led to the
proliferation of diet books, packaged «cleanses» and other all - in - one products that promise to flush all of the toxins out of your body in one fell swoop.
Yet another example of the same dietary advice not being good for everyone (and one big reason why, despite the
prevalence of diet books, we have failed so miserably at controlling the obesity epidemic), is the wild variation in blood sugar response that can occur when subjects in controlled dietary studies eat foods like cookies, bananas, sushi and whole - grain bread.
Recommendations This diet is a book and like all those hundreds
of diet books sitting on the shelves, you need to be a fairly motivated and focused person.
I feel like I've been teased with the author denouncing all but one
of the diet books and seemingly unwilling to reveal the one that she can recommend.