Anti-Fat Nutrients

Dallas Clouatre

Description

Anti-Fat Nutrients explains how and why the body gains and loses weight, and the critical role fat plays in this process. It explores new directions in the study of weight control, and details the important contributions vitamins, herbs, amino acids, enzymes, and other nutrients can make to dieters' lives. It uses a simple food-based approach to weight loss that can be used in combination with anti-fat supplements to maximize results, or as a template for designing your own anti-fat weight-loss plan.

Sujets

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

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781591206163
• Langue: English

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A NTI -F AT N UTRIENTS
Safe and Effective Strategies for Increasing Metabolism, Controlling Appetite, and Losing Fat in 15 Days
FOURTH EDITION
D ALLAS C LOUATRE , P H .D.
with William Karneges
The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the authors. 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 authors 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 authors and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clouatre, Dallas
Anti-fat nutrients : safe and effective strategies for increasing metabolism, controlling appetite, and losing fat in 15 days / Dallas Clouatre with William Karneges.—4th ed.
     p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59120-616-3
ISBN-10: 1-59120-047-4
1. Weight loss. 2. Fat—Metabolism. 3. Vitamins. 4. Dietary supplements. I. Karneges, William. II. Title.
   RM222.2.C52     2004
   613.2'5—dc22
2003028289
Copyright © 2004 by Dallas Clouatre, Ph.D., and William Karneges
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editors: Stephany Evans and Tara Durkin
Typesetter/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction—Beyond Calorie Counting
1. Getting Lean through Nutrition
2. The Anti-Fat Nutrients
3. The Anti-Fat Nutrient Weight-Loss Program
4. Food Factors
5. The End of Dieting
6. The Cholesterol Controversy
Concluding Thoughts
Appendix: Nutritional Analysis of Foods
Notes
About the Authors
 
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Dr. Jin-Bin Wu, Ph.D., of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taichung, Taiwan, for his generous contributions to this project. The authors would also like to thank Keiichi Morishita, President of the International Natural Medicine Society, for the donation of his work The Theory of Food as the Main Factor of Cancer and Dietetics.
INTRODUCTION
Beyond Calorie Counting
T his new edition of Anti-Fat Nutrients is similar in design and format to previous editions. As research progresses and new studies are done, however, we continue to increase our knowledge of how the human body works and how various nutrients work in the body. For this reason, important updates have been added to most sections.
“Dieting,” that is, reducing caloric intake, was considered until recently to be the principal method for losing weight. At universities and nutritional research centers around the world this view is rapidly changing. A study by the National Institutes of Health suggests that there is no evidence that caloric restriction is a good long-term strategy for weight loss. In fact, for some people, cutting back on calories will lead to health risks. 1
Certainly, those who significantly overeat can benefit from reducing their caloric intake. In general, however, calorie counting is not the solution to weight problems. Successful weight management requires a multifaceted approach involving nutrition, biochemistry, psychology, exercise, and lifestyle. Providing insight into some of these factors, this book will not only help you achieve greater weight control, but it also will help you look good and feel good.
Chapter 1 introduces new directions in the study of weight control and outlines the important contributions nutrients can make to dieters’ lives.
Chapter 2 explores key nutritional supplements and the ways in which they facilitate weight loss.
Chapter 3 contains our Core Program, the Anti-Fat Nutrient Weight-Loss Program. This section also suggests specific nutrients that can help you not only control your appetite and lose weight but also reduce stress and relieve depression.
Chapter 4 covers the main elements of food and nutrition and offers dietary guidelines to help accelerate the weight-loss process.
Chapter 5 discusses the pitfalls of dieting as a method to control weight, reveals the real causes of obesity in America, introduces the importance of our metabolic individuality, and examines some of the most popular diets of the last century.
Chapter 6 sorts through the confusion surrounding the cholesterol issue and shows how nutrients can control cholesterol and help prevent heart disease.
Appendix: Nutritional Analysis of Foods is intended to be used in conjunction with Chapter 4 . It also provides a handy reference to aid dieters in determining standard portion sizes and options for introducing into the diet more varied sources of protein, vegetables, and carbohydrates. Eating a broader range of foods is more healthful and tends to effortlessly reduce total caloric intake. This is especially true of vegetables, which are the best sources of “non-fattening” carbohydrates.
Although this book does discuss methods for reducing body fat and weight quickly, the primary aim of the authors is to help our readers make lasting changes in body composition and metabolism. To be a true success, a weight-loss program should provide the tools for achieving enduring good health. Therefore, dieters, resolve today to leave the “yo-yo” dieting pattern in the past! With the help of the following chapters, modify the foods you eat and the supplements you take to achieve permanent weight loss.
CHAPTER 1
Getting Lean through Nutrition
An estimated 97 million adults in the United States are overweight or obese, a condition that substantially raises their risk of morbidity from hypertension, dyslipidemia [the presence of elevated levels of total lipids in the circulating blood], type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, and endometrial, breast, prostate, and colon cancers. Higher body weights are also associated with increases in all-cause mortality. Obese individuals may also suffer from social stigmatization and discrimination. As the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States today, overweight and obesity pose a major public health challenge.
— EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF CLINICAL GUIDELINES ON THE IDENTIFICATION, EVALUATION, AND TREATMENT OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN ADULTS [NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE, 1999]
A PPROXIMATELY 60 PERCENT OF ALL ADULT A MERICANS are over their ideal weight, and many more wish to slim down to look better and to lead more active lives. Unfortunately for most of the individuals who decide to diet, losing weight has become a yearly sparring match in which even an apparent knockout in the early rounds is followed by a reversal several months later. A large and thriving industry, one that sells several billion dollars a year in products and services, has grown up to take advantage of these difficulties, along with the desperation many face when they attempt to lose weight. This book provides do-it-yourself alternatives to empower dieters to achieve their ideal weight on their own. The following pages offer a compendium of current information on strategies for weight loss and on many of the products available to help those dieting take control of their lives and achieve the body weight they desire. In addition, some of the currently popular diets are explained and evaluated.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The end result of a successful weight-reduction program is more than merely the loss of excess weight. Many diets are initially effective for achieving rapid weight loss, but the weight is quickly regained once the diet is over because the pounds lost consisted primarily of water and lean muscle tissue. The result of the typical diet is that the percentage of the body’s tissues made up of fats is increased and the percentage made up of the lean tissues that burn calories is decreased! The energy balances in the body are upset and future diets become more difficult because the body no longer responds. The typical diet, then, leads to a “yo-yo” pattern of weight loss–weight gain, with each cycle of weight gain usually more extreme than the previous one.
A successful diet does much more than simply take off unwanted pounds—it helps you feel good and look good. And it is permanent. This is because it includes making changes in body composition and metabolism that increase the body’s ability to burn calories. These changes do not depend upon a large reduction in the calories consumed; rather, they rely on minor modifications in the foods eaten and on the addition of a small number of supplements to the diet. The result is a decrease in fatty tissue and an increase in the ratio of lean muscle tissue to adipose (fat) tissue in the body. Such a change is psychologically satisfying because lean tissue not only burns calories but also gives women their shapely figures and men their muscle tone. In any successful weight-loss program, you should be able to judge yourself by your mirror rather than by your bathroom scale!
THE VALUE OF WEIGHT-LOSS NUTRIENTS
Countless books have been written