You On A Diet The Owners Manual for Waist Management
You On A Diet The Owners Manual for Waist Management
Book Description
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting–and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America’s most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They’re going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body’s fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you’re going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.
Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body’s size and its health. You’ll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.
Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you’d think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It’s a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you’ll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.
With Roizen and Oz’s signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet–The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you’ll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.
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“Fat Chances: The Secret Story of What’s in Your Belly” by Michael F. Roizen, MD, and Mehmet C. Oz, MD
Whether you’re carrying a few extra pounds of fat on your thighs or a suitcase’s worth in your belly, it’s hard not to think about fat. You feel it when you walk, you roll on it when you sleep, and you curse it when you try to slide into last year’s jeans. But while most of us are intimately familiar with how fat looks on the outside, we’re not quite as familiar with how it works on the inside.
As we explain in YOU: On a Diet, we believe that to change your body, you need to know your body.
In the simplest form, everyone knows the formula for gaining weight. Daily buckets of ranch dip plus photo-album-sized hunks of cheesecake plus a life of couch-dwelling equals a very unfortunate conclusion: too-frequent popped buttons.
But many of us really don’t know how fat works and how it works against us. Here’s the inside story on the story of your insides.
Continue reading this exclusive essay
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YOU: On a Diet–The Shopping List
Print out this exclusive shopping list, created by Michael F. Roizen, MD, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and UnitedHealthcare, to get a jumpstart on the waist-reducing, health-boosting plan you’ll find in YOU: On a Diet.
Check out the exclusive Shopping List
Getting to Know YOU
 YOU: On a Diet Workout DVD |
 YOU: On a Diet [Audio CD] |
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 YOU: The Smart Patient |
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Very Inciteful
This book is full of all the information you will ever need on what happens to food when you ingest it. If only this information was taught in school, maybe obesity wouldn’t be so out of control. I have always struggled with weight issues, comfort and love comes from food. Now I am more aware of the things that I need to put in my body, healthy nutrition, not junk. This book not only offers the idea of good food but tells you why it’s so good for you. It offers recipes, that aren’t complicated. I use to rely on artifical sweetners, not a good idea. I always wondered why I felt so hungry after using these sweetners. Well, what I learned is that our bodies don’t know how to process them. Fresh fruit is the way to go. I reccommend this book very highly for anyone that needs to lose weight. Even reading it to help your children make good choices from a young age is a good idea. Even with the book weight loss is a struggle, but it helps to understand all about the food you put in your mouth. I am feeling more confident these days as I know now I am on the right track for shedding the pounds for good. Happy reading to all that decide to buy this book…..Don’t lose hope!
4 Stars Good for those who need a foundation in nutrition and weight loss
While this book can be tedious, with its ‘dumbed-down’ illustrations and YOU-reka interruptions, for someone who is new to studying nutrition and wants to learn how food is affecting their body, this is a very useful book. I especially appreciated the way the authors presented the effects of saturated fats on our arteries, and their introduction to the omentum - an organ that many of us never learned about in school. The tips about the effects of cinnamon on insulin resistance and eating nuts before a meal as a weight-loss aid will be very new information for some.
People who already have a good education in nutrition and biology will likely find this book too simplistic, but for many others, this book presents valuable information in a highly accessible format. I really recommend it for anyone who wants to understand why diets are making them fat.
3 Stars Ok Diet Book
I purchased this on the recommendation of my doctor. It is an easy read, the cartoons are cute. However, it really didn’t tell me that much new. By eating more healthy foods and exercising more, we can all be in better shape.
1 Star zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I like Dr. Oz so I picked this book up at the library and dove in to it. It kept repeating the same thing over and over. We know you tried to diet and exercise before but you don’t have good will power. It went on like this for many pages. I give up. I’m so glad I didn’t buy this book.
5 Stars Physicians On Diet
How refreshing to have physicians write scientifically-based books that promote a healthy body, healthy living, and disease prevention. Maybe these authors will inspire their colleagues to talk more to patients about living healthfully. The book is written in a way that makes nutrition and physiological insights readable and understandable by people who do not have a strong science background. The emphasis is on trimming your waistline rather than focusing on weight. The authors explain the interaction of the brain, hormones, muscles, stomach, heart, and genes in dictating body size. They provide information on diet and exercise, and include a two week program. I hope our authors are closing the chasm between patients and doctors by raising issues that patients can further discuss with their doctors resulting in healthier patients. Author of THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams
