Eat for Life

Harvey Diamond

Description

Bestselling author Harvey Diamond shines a bright spotlight on how to lose weight naturally as part of a healthy and forgiving eating lifestyle.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Health
• Diet
• Weight Loss

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781591203490
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
Basic Health Publications, Inc. 28812 Top of the World Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651 949-715-7327 www.basichealthpub.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available through the Library of Congress.
ISBN: 978-1-59120-305-6
Copyright 2011 by Harvey Diamond
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.
Editor: Carol A. Rosenberg Typesetting/Book design: Theresa Wiscovitch and Gary A. Rosenberg Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Introduction
1. Does Heat Make You Fat? Clearing Up Calorie Confusion
2. The Grandest Gift: Enzymes for Life
3. Choose Life! Living the Adage You Are What You Eat
4. Does This Go with That? Combining Foods for Better Health
5. Is There a Perfect Food? The Sweetest Prize
6. You Gotta Move! Exercising for Fat Loss
7. Interview with Dr. Mamadou on Enzymes
8. Recipes for Life: Good and Good for You
Conclusion
Afterword: A Note from Toby Coriell
Appendix: Dr. Steven Lamm on Slender GR
About the Author
Contact Information
I NTRODUCTION
H I , MY NAME IS H ARVEY , AND OH BABY , do I love to eat. For as long as I can remember, sitting down to, or should I say diving into, some scrumptious meal of delectable food has always been right up there at the top of my favorite things to do list. Lots of people are ruled by their egos (or so I ve heard). But me? I m ruled by my taste buds. Being so enamored with food and its taste turns out to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, food, in all of its glorious, lip-smacking diversity, has been an always-reliable source of pleasure and gratification. But then there s the flip side of all the gustatory indulgences: if one is not careful, that same source of so much pleasure can also be the source of pain, obesity, ill health, and even death.
I have wrestled with my weight for most of my adult life. Oddly, I was a really skinny kid. So much so, that other kids at school, and even my own brothers, made fun of me. Strangers tried to give me food! I m serious. Until I was about eleven years old I grew up in a little coal-mining town called Harlan, Kentucky. Think of the fictional town of Mayberry as depicted on The Andy Griffith Show and you know what Harlan was like. In fact, that show could easily have been filmed in Harlan. Harlan was about as homey and laid back as any place you ve ever seen. Everybody knew everybody else and friendliness was a way of life. You could knock on any door anywhere in town and ask for some water because you were thirsty, some food because you were hungry, or even to use the bathroom, and you were invited in and treated like a long-lost cousin. I loved growing up there and have only the fondest memories of the place.
Harlanites would see me walking home from school and call me over and, after making some crack about my weight-like if I didn t put some rocks in my pocket a good wind was going to blow me away-they would ask, Darlin , would you like a piece of cake? Now what kid is going to turn down a piece a cake? But no matter how much I ate, I remained skin and bones.
Even as a teenager, I never thought I would be fat. I had what I refer to as the arrogance of the skinny. You know the types: eat as much of anything they like and never gain an ounce. Go to the beach and whip off their shirts with plenty of fanfare while looking around with pride to see if any of the ladies are watching. Not until I was in my late teens and early twenties did it start to become apparent to me that the party was over. It was a real shocker the first time I was forced to say to myself, Hey, what s going on here? I m getting chubby! I actually went from someone who could completely throw caution to the wind and stuff myself with anything I pleased without gaining so much as a nanogram, to someone who put on weight by reading Gourmet magazine.
I spent four years in the military with my weight fluctuating up and down the entire time. My last year was in Vietnam where it could be 120 degrees for long stretches. Not only was the food not anything to write home about, but frequently the meals were C rations. If you like to eat, you don t want to know what C rations are. Here s a hint: they were left over from World War II! Between the stifling heat, the less than appetizing regular food, and the insufferable C rations, let s just say it was not a challenge to refrain from overeating. When I returned home in January 1967, I was 145 pounds. And that was the last time I was ever anywhere near that weight. My mom took one look at me, all emaciated and gaunt, and nearly fainted as she put her hands to her face and exclaimed, oh my God! Her Jewish-mother thing kicked in and she started feeding me as if I were being fattened up for slaughter. I continued eating with wild abandon, and, well . . .
The next three and a half years were filled with anguishing over food, obsessing over my weight, and-one of my least favorite things to do in life-dieting. Lord, I hated to diet. But what else could I do if I didn t want to wind up blocking out the sun for my neighbors and having to grease my thighs to pass through a doorway? And I tried every whacked-out diet that appeared on the scene. Try eating celery and cottage cheese for thirty days straight and see how amiable you remain. Yes, I did do that one. Lost a lot of weight, too, but whoa, let s just say it was not fun. I always dieted for thirty days-don t know why exactly. It s just the number of days I convinced myself I had to do for it to be worthwhile. And I would lose weight.
For two days before I knew I would be going on a diet, I would stuff myself till food was oozing out of my ears,-making the first few days of the diet practically unbearable. Then I spent the remainder of the ordeal fantasizing over what foods I would ultimately gorge myself on when the agony of not being able to eat what I wanted was over.
Needless to say, I would always make all of these proclamations about how I was going to eat more healthfully and rationally after the diet was over, so I could maintain my weight loss and not have to diet anymore. Yeah, right. That lasted about a day and a half-maybe. After I fought mightily, and struggled and suffered to lose twenty-five or thirty pounds, which I always did, I wound up putting all the weight back on and then some. Back to square one, until I became so disgusted with myself that I went on the next diet that came along. No way to live.
D IETS D ON T W ORK !
There are certain things in life that are self-evident. The sun is hot, and it s moist in the tropics-both self-evident; you don t need written proof. Politicians don t always tell the truth-again, self-evident. And there is something else that is patently self-evident: diets don t work! They are temporary measures that have failure built right into them. They are designed to fail. Because as soon as the diet is over and the old eating habits that brought on the need to diet in the first place return, all the weight comes back. Doing this over and over makes it harder and harder to lose the weight the next time. So in the long term, constant dieting will actually wind up making you heavier. How s that for irony?
I am closing in on my seventh decade on earth. I don t remember a time when diets were not in vogue. Have they worked? No! It s self-evident. About $60 billion is spent on weight loss a year in the United States alone. And what has that astounding expenditure of money reaped? After decades of dieting, we find ourselves today in the midst of the most dire obesity epidemic the world has ever known. It is now even affecting children in unprecedented numbers. That s some track record.
Do you think that over the same forty years during which wonder diets, weight-loss books, and other weight-loss schemes became popular that it is a mere coincidence that overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions? The reason why diets don t work long term is simple, really. Whether it s a diet from the past or one that is in vogue today, they all have the exact same shortcoming built into them that insures their long-term failure. All diets are designed, one way or another, with these four common goals: to help you lose as much weight as possible, as fast as possible, by any means possible, and at any cost !
Unfortunately, the single most important element required for successful, long-term, permanent weight loss is left out of this equation: how to so nourish and strengthen the body with proper diet that maintaining a healthy body weight becomes an automatic result of how and what you eat.
C HANGE Y OUR F OOD S TYLE , C HANGE Y OUR L IFE !
Did you know that today, while you are reading this book, 800 people will die of obesity-related causes? And 800 died yesterday, and another 800 will die tomorrow, and every day to follow if something isn t done to alter this sorrowfu