Not a typical one-size-fits-all diet book, this guide is tailor-made to suit an individual's unique health and fitness needs. Packed with mouthwatering recipes, lifestyle tips, and customized fitness routines, this book is like having a nutritionist, trainer and motivation coach all rolled into one!

Increase your metabolism with a plant-based diet to prevent or improve heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's disease and the epidemic of chronic illnesses. Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., a Harvard-trained cell biologist, health psychologist, and New York Times best-selling author, believes that when you’ve got the right information, you can make powerful choices to change your life. She cuts through the thicket of confusing—and often downright wrong—advice on nutrition and gives you easy-to-digest, bite-sized servings of real scientific information so you can discover which foods your body needs to heal and thrive. Since Joan wears two hats—as a psychologist and a cell biologist—you can trust her to psych out your inner saboteur, enabling you to make the changes you’ve been dreaming of. And as a busy woman who loves good food, she’ll teach you how to make simple, scrumptious, satisfying meals that you and your family will love whether you’re omnivores, vegans, or vegetarians. In this groundbreaking book, Joan will help you: • Get up-to-date information on the nutrition revolution • Make friends with the plants that feed your gut bacteria • Lose the weight and keep it off • Understand how diet changes your genes and how your genes determine your best diet • Fill out a health symptom checklist and track the changes as your personalized PlantPlus Diet optimizes your metabolism • Know which tests to ask your doctor for and why • Create a sleek and streamlined PlantPlus kitchen • Make fabulous meals in minutes with simple recipes and meal plans

A companion volume to "The Ultimate Weight Solution" offers advice on strategies for eating out, portion size, calorie count, pantry stocking, and supplements and meal replacements.

Body weight is an intensely personal thing. There's no escaping it. It greets you every morning in the bathroom mirror, it follows you throughout the day by the reflections in the eyes of everyone you meet, and it whispers a 'good night' benediction as you put out your vanity light. It is your second face. Dr. Allan C. Somersall

Are you being deliberately kept fat? Use the simple techniques in this book to learn how to cut through the Confusing Research, Advertising & Promotions put in your way and focus on the few things you really need to know in order to regain control of your weight. And your life. It really works and what's more, you already know most of it!

"Which of the following will yield the fastest measurable change in performance and/or body composition? (A) changes in training. (B) changes in diet. (C) use of sports supplements. (D) they all work equally well. If you answered 'C,' go to the head of the class. That's right; the proper use of sports supplements can produce changes in minutes (e.g. caffeine), days (e.g. creatine) and weeks (e.g. beta-alanine). Yet we are bombarded by muddled thinking from the mainstream media telling us that 'creatine causes cramps,' 'high protein diets are bad for your kidneys,' 'supplements aren't needed as long as you eat a balanced diet' and other ideas that are void of data. Sports Nutrition & Performance Enhancing Supplements (eds. Abbie Smith-Ryan PhD CSCS*D CISSN and Jose Antonio PhD FNSCA FISSN. Linus Publications) is a focused resource that will give you the latest sports nutrition science, and eradicate the intellectually lazy positions held so dearly by the anti-supplement crowd."--Amazon.

The science of nutrition has advanced beyond expectation since Antoine La voisier as early as the 18th century showed that oxygen was necessary to change nutrients in foods to compounds which would become a part of the human body. He was also the first to measure metabolism and to show that oxidation within the body produces heat and energy. In the two hundred years that have elapsed, the essentiality of nitrogen-containing nutrients and of proteins for growth and maintenance of tissue has been established; the ne cessity for carbohydrates and certain types of fat for health has been docu mented; vitamins necessary to prevent deficiency diseases have been identified and isolated; and the requirement of many mineral elements for health has been demonstrated. Further investigations have defined the role of these nutrients in metabolic processes and quantitated their requirements at various stages of development. Additional studies have involved their use in the possible prevention of, and therapy for, disease conditions.