The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight (Hardcover) Review

First of all, I will tell everyone that this is NOT a diet book: NO menus, NO fitness routines, NO chants for self-improvement. This is in fact a History book. The History of the last 100 years of America's quest for fitness and the holy grail of diets.

That being said I will admit that this is the last book I expected to be un-put-downable. Honestly, Susan Yager writes very matter of fact, but the topic is so touchy on both a psychological and emotional basis that quite often it reads like a thriller. Yager narrows down her topic by limiting it to the 20th century and the U.S. but clearly had she explored this from an international perspective she would still be writing.

We all know from our own personal experience with our bodies and an often contentious relationship with what we eat how we feel at any given time of the day. What was shocking for me, was my awareness of this expanding past myself and immediate family/friends to our Nation as a whole. I also found myself mortified by our rather passive search and acceptance of experimental Diet and fitness programs. From Kellogg & Graham to Atkins & South Beach as well as the eternally pervasive veganism, despite our very serious urge to be thin and healthy, we are willing to put ourselves in some very frightening regimens. Often ingesting substances that are toxic or create a toxic situation within our bodies.

What I found remarkable was the 100 year debate/struggle between actual science and the psuedo-science theory between actual practicing physicians! Quite often my jaw was on the floor while reading this. I highlighted passages so that I would remember them exactly when sharing data with others. On the surface Yager's subject might not seem all that interesting, but in actuality it is never boring and an eye-opener. I guess the most startling conclusion we can come away with is that for all our energy and desire to be fit, thin and if we're lucky, Healthy. We, as a nation take a very passive route by eagerly accepting ANY trend and fad to achieve our goals.

Don't get me wrong, Yager also covers the diet/fitness procedures that work (eat less, pay attention & take an active, knowledgeable interest in what you eat and exercise.) and even covers an OCD obsession with carbs and calorie counting. Yager also provides and interesting detail on our genetic and physiological make-up to define our sometimes collective mind-frame. But overall, we all want a miracle and will often blindly accept the supposed quick-cure method. (enemas and lemon/pepper/syrup juice, anyone?)

The Hundred Year Diet was an excellent read for me, and it actually made me want to take responsibility for my own diet with a more questioning and educated approach.

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A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dieting
As a nation battling an obesity epidemic, we spend more than $35 billion annually on diets and diet regimens. Our weight is making us sick, unhappy, and bigger than ever, and we are willing to hand over our hard-earned money to fix the problem. But most people don't know that the diet industry started cashing in long before the advent of the Whopper.
The Hundred Year Diet is the story of America's preoccupation with diet, deprivation, and weight loss. From the groundbreaking measurement of the calorie to World War I voluntary rationing to the Atkins craze, Susan Yager traces our relationship with food, weight, culture, science, and religion. She reveals that long before America became a Fast Food Nation or even a Weight Loss Nation, it was an Ascetic Nation, valuing convenience over culinary delight.
Learn how one of the best-fed countries in the world developed some of the worst nutritional habits, and why the respect for food evident in other nations is lacking in America. Filled with food history, cultural trivia, and unforgettable personalities, The Hundred Year Diet sheds new light on an overlooked piece of our weight loss puzzle: its origins.

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The Boredom Diet: Permanent Weight Loss as a Matter of Routine (Paperback) Review

I looked for this book on Amazon.com because I heard the author talking about it when he was a guest on a large local radio morning show.I was curious then but impressed now.It's a short book and I am reading it for second time.
I liked the book because it was simple to understand. It contained good advise and allows the reader to develop his/her own diet according to simple rules.
The author clearly was not out to get rich but to help people.Some of his statements have been validated for me lately by other doctors I have heard who agree with his theories as well.Although they didn't give him credit, they also didn't say these ideas were their own.
I liked his theories and the system continues to work for him.It is working for me too.

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Finally, a diet book that shows you how to stick to a diet long enough to make it work--permanently! (Written by a skinny guy who used to be fat.)

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Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss (Paperback) Review

As many people know, losing weight is often times easier than keeping it off. Atkins addresses this issue in his latest book, "Atkins For Life".
The book "Atkins for Life" is an excellent resource book. It is filled with practical advice and tips on how to make your low carbohydrate weight loss a permanent success.
Over the years Atkins name has been maligned and sneered at as he pioneered the idea that its not the fat in our diet that makes us fat its the excessive amounts of carbohydrates we have been consuming. The low fat diet was presented to Americans as the best way and the healthiest way to lose weight. However, recent researchhas revealed the low fat diet to be a miserable failure. As the fat has been taken out of the diet carbohydrates have been added in their place and many Americans have become obese and unhealthy. Dr. Atkin's proposal that eating less carbs can lead to weight loss and better health has been vindicated.
The Atkins weight loss method is a 4 step approach. Phase 1 INDUCTION is where you limit your carbs to 20 grams per day to jump start your weight loss program. Phase 2 OWL or ONGOING WEIGHT LOSS allows you to slowly add back carbs until you discover the amount of carbs you can eat and still lose weight.
Phase 3 PRE-MAINTENANCE has you slow your weight loss by adding in more carbs so good eating habits become ingrained. And in Phase 4 LIFETIME MAINTENANCE you learn to enjoy a wider variety of foods and maintain your weight loss. This book "Atkins for Life" discusses each of the phases but is mainly concerned with Phase 4 LIFETIME MAINTENANCE.
You can learn what to do to lose weight with this book, but for in depth information, you would be better off selecting "Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution".
This book covers in great detail how to maintain the weight you have lost. Part One: A Lifetime Plan recaps the Atkins program. It includes information on the diet, the effect on your body, putting it into practice and how to benefit from exercise. Part Two: Eating for Life teaches you how to get your kitchen in order, and gives thirty meal plans with carb counts. It includes twenty meal plans for special occasions. 125 recipes for success are also given.
YES you can eat carbohydrates. You can have bread, cake and pizza or even wine. The key of course is knowing how many carbohydrates your body can handle each day without gaining weight. And using techniques to get the most bang from your carbohydrate buck. These techniques are taught in the book. For example if you crave bread Atkins has several pages of information to help you make the best selection. Breads are ranked on their ability to effect your insulin levels. There are also tips on how to enjoy bread without overdoing it such as eating the crust only. Atkins shares techniques like this for a variety of foods.
Comfort foods are a big issue for many. Atkins tells you what to choose or what to substitute. Eating out is another area covered. Best choices at different restaurants is given in detail. Atkins also includes mental tips to help you avoid backsliding.
Key to the book is the detailed menu plans given for 4 ranges of carb levels at 45g, 60g, 80g and 100g . Just adjust up or down so you are at your level (which you learn from his diet).Meal plans are simple and include snacks.A sample day for a 60 g plan would include 1 slice lemon zucchini bread, with an egg and ricotta cheese for breakfast. Meat loaf with whole-grain bread and salad for lunch.
Jerk shrimp with pasta or collard greens for dinner and 1/2 cup of cantaloupe for a snack. Carb counts are given so you can substitute as desired.
Crab Deviled Eggs, Cherry Muffins, Mixed Berry Shortcakes, Pinwheel Cookies, Roasted Chicken and Feta Cheese Wrap, Chocolate Souffle and Southwestern Style Pork Fajitas are among the 125 recipes. Recipes include nutritional information, but are not pictured.
The 370 page book also includes self tests and quizzes to help you stay on task. My favorite part of "Atkins For Life" has to be the success stories. There are a number of remarkable stories in the book with black and white photos included! Very inspiring!
The book "Atkins For Life" makes living a low carb life in our high carb worldeasier and enjoyable! I highly recommend it!

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Health Journeys: A Meditation to Help You with Weight Loss [Abridged][Audiobook] (Audio CD) Review

This tape, A Meditation to Help You With Weight Loss, is an extremely positive experience.It was one that was listed in "Walking" magazine.I was a little skeptical, at first..However, I read the reviewsbefore my purchase..I was totally satisfied.Ms. Naparstek's voice is verycalming, very sincere... I appreciate the fact that this tape is not timeconsuming...You can listen to the positive affirmations in the car, and Iplay the meditation side before I go to bed.One of the worse parts aboutbattling weight loss is the negative feelings.This tape is full ofpositive thoughts and sayings..It works great for me!

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An effective, safe program combining guided imagery and self-hypnosis helps listeners lose weight and keep it off, offering guidelines for reducing cravings, enhancing will power, speeding up metabolism, and reinforcing positive behavior changes. Read by Belleruth Naparstek.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Training for Life: Walk Your Way to Fitness and Weight Loss in 14 Days [Hardcover] Review

Following this book EXACTLY helped me to lose 14 lbs in 14 days.No fad diet.You lose it eating healthy foods and walking.I have found it to be the only thing I have found to lose all the weight I want to lose.It has changed my life.I strongly recommend it.

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Celebrity fitness trainer Debbie Rocker is one of the original developers of Spinning, the international fitness phenomenon, and a world record holder in cycling. In TRAINING FOR LIFE, Rocker shows readers how to use walking, the body's most natural form of exercise, to achieve total transformation in a mere two weeks. She presents her personalized fitness philosophy in a 14-day program that includes walking basics, dietary recommendations, and additional upper body workouts that tone muscles, build bone density, and speed weight loss. Readers will discover how they can build confidence, attain total fitness, and train their minds to think of exercise and eating right as fulflling, important parts of life.

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The Resolution Diet: Keeping the Promise of Permanent Weight Loss (Unknown Binding) Review

Dr Heber is the first doctor to ever write a book that makes sense.It's not a diet, it's a way of life and looking at the things and stress we're under in the '90's (almost 2000).He's an extremely empathetic doctor,realizes that people are people and his book shows it.If you need orwould like to lose weight, this is your book.I have had weight losssurgery and read his book to keep up with my 130 pound weight loss (yes,you still have to watch what you eat after weight loss surgery)!He's agenious (and nice to boot) ... this book is easy to read, easy tounderstand, has working sheets after several of the chapters and is not amillion pages of reading.It's a smaller book which doesn't make it boringto read.Five (yes, five) people in my office have already bought and readthe book and are following his diet (hate that word) and are doing verysucessful on it.Money well spent.

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A diet program that really works! This book helps dieters make -- and keep -- a promise to follow individualized weight-loss plans.

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The Alpha Solution for Permanent Weight Loss: Harness the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Change Your Relationship with Food--Forever (Hardcover) Review

This book is very unique compared to other diet books, I'm surprised it hasn't done better. Get a PR person for crying out loud!He could have sold this has a ebook and made a fortune.

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What if you could lose weight easily--without diets, calorie counters, or complicated workouts?

For the last twenty-five years, Dr. Ronald J. Glassman has helped thousands of his patients lose weight-from five pounds to 150 pounds-and keep it off. And he knows that the answer to overeating is not another diet or exercise regimen. The answer is to harness the power of your mind. The Alpha Solution presents his phenomenally successful scientific approach to easy, permanent weight loss-and proves that you literally can think yourself thin.

For many of us, the result of years of poor eating, or eating for psychological and social reasons rather than nutritional ones, means that, subconsciously, we have been conditioned to eat the wrong foods in the wrong quantities. Despite our desire to be lean, strong, and healthy, we're still subconsciously programmed to overeat, crave certain foods, and snack unnecessarily. This is why diets don't work: Even if we know we should choose salad over pizza, our subconscious mind-ingrained with years of negative eating habits-undermines our efforts at every turn. The solution? Give your brain a new food blueprint by tapping into its "Alpha" state-the state right before you fall asleep in which your subconscious mind is open to suggestion and change.

Through a series of simple questionnaires, Dr. Glassman guides you through the process of identifying the food issues you need to overcome and creating two personalized scripts tailored to your specific weight loss needs. You will then record the scripts on a tape or CD and listen to the recordings each night as you fall asleep. The changes are immediate and dramatic-you will begin reaching for healthy foods, keeping proper portion sizes, and turning down the fattening, sugary foods you used to crave. Within days, your eating habits will be transformed and you will begin melting away the pounds-seemingly without effort!

Filled with success stories, The Alpha Solution is already changing the lives of people everywhere. Losing weight has never been this easy-and you will never have to "diet" again. What could be better than that?

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No special workouts

Finally, a medically proven way to change your relationship with food forever--no diet or exercise required! This revolutionary book reveals how to literally think yourself thin: by simply and easily training your brain to automatically crave healthy foods in the proper portions. Whether you want to lose ten pounds or fifty, The Alpha Solution will quickly make diet struggles a thing of the past-and keep you fit and thin for life!

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