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Body for Life Success Journal

Bill Phillips

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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Bill Phillips comes Body–for–Life Success Journal. With over three million copies sold and after more than three years on bestseller lists, Body–for–Life is still going strong. People everywhere are discovering that they too have the power to change their body, their mindset, their life. They are discovering that when they make a change, they make a difference –– they become an inspiration to others, a positive example of living a healthy style of life. And now, with this new Success Journal, becoming a Body–for–Life success story is within reach for everyone.

More than just a typical log book, this complete Success Journal guides you, day by day, step by step, through the entire 12–week Program. Bill Phillips designed this book to help you stay focused and inspired. Through its pages, he will be with you every step of the way and so will other people who have successfully completed the Program. Each and every day they will support you, encourage you, and help you complete the Program in championship style. When you finish this Success Journal, it will document your success story. However, the real reward will be your new, transformed body and your clear, empowered mindset.

The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

Brendan Brazier

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The Thrive Diet is a long-term eating plan that will help you develop a lean body, sharp mind, and everlasting energy, whether you’re a professional athlete or simply looking to boost your physical and mental health. One of the few professional athletes on an entirely plant-based diet, Brendan Brazier researched and developed this easy-to-follow program to enhance his performance as an elite endurance athlete.Brazier clearly describes why it’s easier for the body to utilize nutrient-rich foods in their natural state than refined, processed foods and how to choose nutritionally-efficient, stress-busting whole foods to maximize energy and health. And because plant-based foods are more environmentally friendly to produce, you’ll also help the planet while improving your personal health.The Thrive Diet features a 12-week whole foods meal plan, over 100 easy-to-make recipes with raw food options that are free of dairy, gluten, soy, wheat, corn, refined sugar, including exercise-specific recipes for pre-workout snacks, energy gels, sport drinks, and recovery foods, and an easy-to-follow exercise plan that compliments the Thrive Diet program. With The Thrive Diet, you can lower body fat and increase muscle tone; diminish visible signs of aging; increase energy and mental clarity; sleep better and more restfully; experience better moods; build a stronger immune system; lower cholesterol; and eliminate junk-food cravings.

The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

Ori Hofmekler

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Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution–to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary changes but rather a radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul.

Drawing on both scientific studies and historical data, Hofmekler argues that robust health and a lean, strong body can best be achieved by mimicking the classical warrior mode of cycling—working and eating sparingly (undereating) during the day and filling up at night. Specific elements from the Warrior Diet Nutritional Program (finding ideal fuel foods and food combinations to reduce body fat) to the Controlled Fatigue Training Program (promoting strength, speed, and resilience to fatigue through special drills), literally reshape body and mind. Individual chapters cover warrior meals and recipes; sex drive, potency, and animal magnetism; as well as personalizing the diet for women. Featuring forewords by Fit for Life author Harvey Diamond and Fat That Kills author Dr. Udo Erasmus, The Warrior Diet shows readers weary of fad diets how to attain enduring vigor, explosive strength, a better appearance, and increased vitality and health.

The Magnesium Miracle

Carolyn Dean

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“Magnesium is indeed the unsung hero and is a key nutriceutical that everybody needs to know about. . . . This book needs to be read by any individual wishing to improve their quality of life. . . . Dr Dean has the best credentials in bringing solutions to those suffering from the hidden magnesium disorders that affect most of us.”
–DR. STEPHEN T. SINATRA, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.N.
Author of Lower Your Blood Pressure in Eight Weeks

More than seventy-five years ago, medical scientists declared magnesium to be an essential nutrient, indispensable to life. When this mineral is part of your diet, you are guarding against–and helping to alleviate–health threats such as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But while research continues to reaffirm magnesium’s irreplaceable contribution to good health, many Americans remain dangerously deficient.

In The Miracle of Magnesium, Dr. Carolyn Dean, an authority on this mineral who has used it with dramatic success in her own practice, explains the vital role that magnesium plays in the control of many serious ailments–from painful muscle spasms and bladder problems to traumatic brain injury and complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Inside you will discover

• How diets and lifestyles can create a dangerous magnesium deficiency
• Which magnesium-rich foods keep your vital organs healthy and which to avoid
• Why other nutrients, including calcium, need magnesium to become potent
• What vitamins and minerals work with magnesium to treat specific ailments
• Why prescription medicines, such as birth control pills, can deplete magnesium
• Which magnesium supplements are best for you

Whether you need help with a serious health problem or merely want to protect the good health you already enjoy, The Miracle of Magnesium will answer all your questions. It may even save your life.

The Vitamin D Cure

James Dowd, Diane Stafford

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Unhealthful Diet Recomendations 1 out of 5 stars.
5 of 16 people found this review helpful.

When it comes to the best kind of diet to eat, one size does not fit all. Some people need more protein and fat, others need more carbohydrates, and still other people need a mix of protein, fat and carbohydrates. Author of "The Vitamin D Cure," Dr. Janes Dowd, would have everyone eating a low fat, almost no carbohydrate diet. The mainstays of the diet are fruits, vegetables, and lean meat. Yuk! Being a person who needs more fat and protein, this diet definately isn't for me. Dr. Dowd's book is just another rehash of the the modern Atken's diet. The original Atken's diet gave you plenty of fat with your protein, fruits and vegies. While the original diet wasn't wonderful, the modern politically correct version of the diet has cut out the fat, which is downright dangerous. I think the reason so many people did as well as they did on the Dr, Dowd's diet is the horrible way they ate previosly.

Another point to consider. Our Creator made us to run on fat, protein, and complex carbohydrates (whole grains). Even though I'm a fat and protein type, I still need some complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates give us energy. Proteins are the building blocks for the body, and fats are used inside & outside the cells to enable them to do their jobs. Fats also provide satiation and help us not to over eat. Depending on your need, eating the good fats can help you lose or gain weight. The polyunsaturated omega 3 fats (EPA & DHA) are brain food. The short chain fats found in butter & yes, cocconut oil are antimicrobal, antibacterial and anticarcinogenic, according PhD biochemist and lipids researcer, Dr. Mary Enig. They also give the cell wall stiffness, so that the polyunsaturated Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids won't leak out of the cell. Omega 3 & 6 fats are liquid in the body, just as they are outside of the body.

Some fats are killer ones. Your definately want to stay away from transfatty acids, which are found in products such as vegetable oil margarines. Vegetable oils are high in omega 6 fats, which having a double bound on their fatty acid chain are very unstable and easily oxidized fats. That is why you should never cook with Canola oil, corn oil, sunflower or safflower oils, etc. Saturated fats with no double or even single bonds, which is what monounstarated olive oil has are the best for cooking with. You also want to stay away from the artery clogging oxidized cholesterol. Bake your chicken and fish, don't pan or deep fry any food, french fries or onion rings included. The one food I try to purchase organically grown is meat. The way our animals are raised is nasty. I do not want to be eating gtowth hormones, antibiotics, etc.

What about fruits and vegetables. They are loaded with much needed vitamins and minerals and should be a central part of any healthy diet. Steaming you vegetable until tender crisp is the best way to cook them. I have at least one raw vegetable salad a day, my husband almost always has two of them. We use red or green leaf lettuce, not iceberg and the freshest vegies we can find. Did you know that the minerals in vegetables and fruits need the good fats to enable them to do their job?

Dr. Dowd's onformation on the benefits of vitamin D is good. This almost convinced me to give the book two stars, but the dietary information is so bad, I gave it only one star. Along with Dr. Joseph Mercola, D.O., I contend that the best way to get your vitamin D is from moderate sun exposure. Sun exposure does not provide EPA & DHA, you'll have to get that from cold water fish or fish oil tablets. Also if you live a northern climate, I live in northern Wisconsin, you will either need to supplement your vitamin D or buy a sunlamp or tanning bed. The best book I've read on vitamin D, is by Paul Stitt, "Vitamin D, Is It The Foutain of Youth?" Another most excellent book on magnessium, "Is The Magnerssium Miracle." Mary Enig & Sally Fallon's book, "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" is also eccllent.

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Groundbreaking new research has traced the source of a wide array of to a single common factor-—vitamin D deficiency. Leading rheumatologist and researcher Dr. James Dowd reveals the causes of vitamin D deficiency and offers a simple, easy-to-follow five-step program that can eliminate or alleviate a host of seemingly incurable conditions, such as arthritis, in as little as six weeks. Better yet, by staying on the program, you can enjoy robust health and improved fitness for the rest of your life.

The Sonoma Diet: Trimmer Waist, Better Health in Just 10 Days!

Connie Guttersen

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Total reviews: 136 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

It's helped me lose 24lbs in 5 weeks 5 out of 5 stars.
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I've followed the plan faithfully. YES the diet works best if you cook at home. YES cooking at home requires time and effort. YES you have to plan your meals ahead of time. YES you have to plan your grocery list before you go to the store. But what diet doesn't require these things?

I've faithfully been on the diet for 5 weeks now and as such I've tried almost every recipe in this book. The recipes are well written, easy to follow, contain ingredients easy to find in most grocery stores, and produce great results. Many of the recipes use cilantro, parsley, marjoram, rosemary or cumin as flavor enhancers. Particularly good is the Marinated Flank steak recipe in Wave 1. I've served it 3 times for dinner parties and have gotten rave reviews on it. Conversely, none of the "en papillote" recipes turned out very well (vegetables always turn out undercooked and don't have much flavor).

Bottom line: Like all diets, this one requires effort. The extra effort does pay off in weight loss. The delicious recipes and variety of foods are what help make this diet easier to stick with. I'd recommend buying the cookbook as well for a larger variety of dishes.

Drawbacks: this is definitely a book for carnivores. Most of the vegetarian recipes are side dishes and do not have enough substance to carry themselves as main dishes.

Bonus: My husband and 2 year old daughter enjoy the food as much as I do.

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Top 10 Sonoma Diet Power Foods for weight loss and health.

Portion sizes made easy with The Sonoma Diet Plate and Bowl guidelines.

Detailed meal plans for surefire weight loss success.

Smart Food Combinations that make each food even healthier.

The science behind the diet—learn why it works!

Mouthwatering recipes, rich in flavor and nutrition.

Bonus: Diet guide pullout to make following the diet a breeze when on the go.

100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on Any Diet Plan

Linda Spangle

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Total reviews: 30 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Highly recommended, appreciate her approach 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I thought this was a very good book, with quick, easy, practical lessons. I found it motivating and insightful. Not every lesson resonated with me and I found some of the examples to be irritating and irrelevant, but I'm only one part of her audience and I'm sure those lessons and examples spoke to someone else. As far as the lessons go, you can do as much or as little as you want with them. Some days, I wrote a lot. Some days I wrote just a few sentences. If I missed a day, I just picked it up the next day. If you can't commit to that, I'm not sure if you're ready to commit to long-term weight loss or maintenance. The most important lessons, I think, are around managing long term weight loss. It really is a rest of your life challenge!

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This personal growth diet companion encourages dieters--no matter what diet plan they are on--to stick to it by giving them the tools to address the issues behind their eating habits and to make the right choices.

Going on a diet is easy, staying on a diet is hard and it is the consistent, long-term lifestyle change that results in real success. This book is not a diet but a diet companion. There are 100 short lessons that provide coping skills, behavioral tools, and personal growth ideas that serve as a companion and encourager and give dieters the daily strength to stick with their resolution. Spangle tackles the emotional and psychological issues of weight loss, which is missing from most diet plans. They tell you what to eat. 100 Days of Weight Loss gives you the personal tools to make the right choices.

Living the G.I. (Glycemic Index) Diet

Rick Gallop

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The easiest diet going is now even easier--and tastier. Off to an explosive start, The G.I. Diet quickly landed on New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, and required five quick printings (for a total of 190,000 copies) to keep pace with demand after national publicity discovered the "Canadian miracle diet" (Woman's World). Now, continuing to build on the nutritional wisdom of the glycemic index, Rick Gallop follows up with the essential companion--a cookbook and strategy guide for living the G.I. Diet.

Organized around the simple, intuitive principle of green-, yellow-, and red-light foods--if you can follow a traffic light, you can follow this diet--Living the G.I. Diet gets right into the kitchen with 135 dishes that are as easy to prepare as they are unrecognizable as diet food. Grilled Pesto Salmon with Asparagus. Beef and Eggplant Chili. Garlic Shrimp Pasta. Thai Chicken Curry. Pork Tenderloin with Grainy Mustard and Chive Crust. Cinnamon French Toast. Florentine Frittata. And desserts: Baked Chocolate Mousse, Basmati Rice Pudding, Pecan Brownies--that's right, brownies.

In addition, the book spells out how to lose weight (Phase I) and maintain weight loss (Phase II); how to make G.I. eating a family affair; navigating holidays, restaurants, vacation eating; and exploring the psychological and emotional aspects of food and food cravings--everything you need to stay on this proven track.

6-Day Body Makeover: Drop One Whole Dress or Pant Size in Just 6 Days--and Keep It Off

Michael Thurmond

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Total reviews: 88 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Nearly starved! 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This programs promises you will eat more and exercise less. NOT TRUE! For my body type, the diet is basically chicken, tuna and salad all the time every day 7 days a week. And not only do you have resistance exercises to do two days of every week, they also recommend that you do an hour of aerobic exercise 6 days a week. That doesn't sound like more or less of anything to me. The fact is, I couldn't stay on the diet. After 3 days I was sick to death of chicken and salad. And the fact is--if you exercise 6 days a week for an hour, it doesn't matter what you eat--you're going to lose some weight. Too expensive a program. You can get the same info. on the internet for free. It's also too hard for some people to figure their body type with this program. I answered all the questions and could have come under two body types, but it gives you no information about which diet to follow if you fit two profiles.

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Lightning fast weight loss is now a reality with the 6-DAY BODY MAKEOVER. The secret to Thurmonds bestselling, rapid fat-loss program is customization. By tailoring a regimen to an individuals unique body type and metabolism, the program delivers dramatic results, making it easy for virtually anyone to lose a whole dress or pant size in just six days. Thurmonds exclusive blueprinting system helps identify your individual body type so that you can select just the right foods in the right combination to trigger fast weight loss. With customized meal plans, menus and recipes, fat burning exercise secrets, a maintenance plan, and more, readers will be amazed at the difference six days can make.

The Fertility Diet

Jorge Chavarro, Walter C. Willett, Patrick J. Skerrett

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Could having the occasional small bowl of ice cream lead to a midnight craving for pickles and ice cream?

It's common knowledge that diet and exercise have profound effects on your health. Can they affect your ability to get pregnant, too? Until now, the answer to that question was a qualified "Maybe." Today, it's "Yes!" thanks to exciting findings from a landmark long-term study of female nurses. As described in The Fertility Diet, ten simple changes in diet and activity can have profound effects on fertility. You can increase your chances of getting pregnant with such simple strategies as:

• Avoiding trans fats
• Eating more beans, nuts, and other fertility-boosting plant protein
• Embracing whole grains such as oatmeal and barley
• Having a glass of whole milk or other full-fat dairy product every day (a small bowl of ice cream every now and then counts, too!)
• Staying away from sugared sodas

The Nurses' Health Study exhaustively examined the effects of diet and other lifestyle changes on fertility among nearly 20,000 female nurses. It scrutinized everything from alcohol to vitamins. In plain language, two of the study's lead researchers translate its groundbreaking findings into changes you can put into practice today, setting the stage for a healthy pregnancy and forming the foundation for an eating strategy that will serve you well for the rest of your life. The Fertility Diet also offers a week's worth of meal plans and fifteen delicious recipes.