21-day weight loss kickstart : boost metabolism, lower cholesterol, and dramatically improve your health

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21-day weight loss kickstart : boost metabolism, lower cholesterol, and dramatically improve your health

Author:

Barnard, Neal D., 1953- author.

ISBN:

9780446583817

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Grand Central Life & Style, 2011.

Physical Description:

xv, 348 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Metabolically active foods. Power on your plate ; Foods that tame the appetite demons ; Understanding the calorie-burning secret ; Cardioprotection: health for every part of you ; A healthy menu -- The 3-week program. On your marks, get set ; Let's go! ; Day 1. Jump in! ; Day 2. Beyond meaty diets ; Day 3. Beyond dairy products ; Day 4. Keeping it low-fat ; Day 5. Quick breakfast ideas ; Day 6. Mastering social situations ; Day 7. Eating for energy -- Getting in gear. Day 8. Tackling cravings and destructive eating habits ; Day 9. Heart health ; Day 10. Convenience foods ; Day 11. Travel ; Day 12. Fighting cancer with food ; Day 13. Our friend, the bean ; Day 14. Choosing good carbohydrates -- Going to the max. Day 15. Protecting every cell, and slowing down the aging process ; Day 16. Foods that conquer pain ; Day 17. Eating your way to a good night's sleep ; Day 18. Play with your food ; Day 19. Extra motivators: environment and animals ; Thinking about our loved ones ; Day 21. Graduation day! -- 21 days of kickstart menus -- Recipes.

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A popular doctor offers a twenty-one-day plant-based diet designed to help reduce appetite, boost metabolism, and reduce cholesterol, and includes grocery-shopping tips, meal plans, and more than one hundred recipes.

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For years, Dr. Neal D. Barnard has been at the forefront of cutting-edge research on what it really takes to lose weight and restore the body to optimal health. Now, with his proven, successful program, in just three short weeks you'll get fast results-drop pounds, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, improve blood sugar, and more. With Dr. Barnard's advice on how to easily start a plant-based diet, you'll learn the secrets to reprogramming your body quickly:

Appetite reduction: Strategically choose the right foods to naturally and easily tame your appetite.
Metabolism boost: Adjust eating patterns to burn calories faster for about three hours after each meal.
Cardio protection: Discover the powerful foods that can help reduce cholesterol nearly as much as drugs do in just weeks.

Whether you are one of the millions who are anxious to get a jumpstart on weight loss or who already know about the benefits of a plant-based diet but have no idea how or where to start, this book is the kickstart you've been waiting for. Complete with more than sixty recipes, daily meal plans for the 21-day program, tips for grocery shopping, and more, this book will teach you how to make the best food choices and get your body on the fast track to better health.

Author Notes

Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC, is perhaps the world's most respected authority on vegan diets. He is a faculty member of the George Washington University School of Medicine and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Dr. Barnard is editor-in-chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a nutrition textbook given to all second-year medical students in the U.S. He is also editor of Good Medicine , a magazine with a circulation of 150,000. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes and The 21-Day Weight-Loss Kickstart, among many others.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Following the success of his 21-Day Vegan Kickstart online program, spearheaded by notable vegans (including Alicia Silverstone, Marilu Henner, NBA star John Salley, and author Rory Freedman), physician Barnard (Breaking the Food Seduction) reworks his material for this comprehensive guided lifestyle change to be featured beginning in March 2011 on PBS stations. Barnard discusses vegan choices, benefits, and challenges, and guides readers on how to substitute vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains, and plant-based protein for fatty animal products; eat vegan in social situations and while traveling; prevent or reverse diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers; and create meals, that, Barnard contends, fulfill all nutritional requirements. Home food preparation is key, but Barnard offers options for dining at restaurants and fast-food chains, and using convenience foods. While readers must commit to food shopping and cooking, Barnard troubleshoots with concise kitchen tips and basic cooking techniques. In the end Barnard's guide is accessible and motivational, and he promises weight loss without deprivation, calorie counts, and exercise routines. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Barnard's (medicine, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine) weight-loss plan does not require calorie or carbohydrate counting or even an exercise regime. Instead, it calls for eliminating all animal products and keeping oils to a bare minimum. Readers are encouraged to fill up on all the whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruit they want. He includes 21 days of menus and over 100 recipes to help dieters get a good start, and there are two very nice appendixes listing unfamiliar ingredients and basic cooking techniques. Barnard assures readers that all the dietary protein needed is available through the stated food choices; however, as longtime vegetarians will stress, the process of combining a vegetarian diet in such a way as to assure that "complete proteins" are ingested is tricky. There is an apparent lack of sufficient explanations here regarding this process for new vegetarian readers. To promote this book, the author will be outlining his program in a one-hour special in March 2011 televised on PBS stations across the country. VERDICT Readers looking for a different diet approach will find this appealing.-Crystal Renfro, Georgia Inst. of Technology Lib. & Information Ctr., Atlanta (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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