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Zusatztext "[C]utting edge...user-friendly and focuses on eating behavior! not only food and calories." -- Self magazine Informationen zum Autor Susan Mitchell, Ph.D., R.D., FADA and Catherine Christie Ph.D., R.D., FADA Klappentext For a nation at war with obesity, diet plan sophisticated enough to take into consideration an individual's genetic blueprint have seemed like science fiction -- until now. Written by two certified nutritionists, Fat is Not Your Fate draws on cutting-edge research to allow us all, for the very first time, to outsmart our genes and beat them at their own game. Examining the relationship between genetics and diet, Doctors Mitchell and christie identify six nutrition-related phenotypes to help readers uncover their own profile and weight loss program. Thoroughly researched and immediately useful, Fat Is Not Your Fate takes the latest biological knowledge to exciting and practical new levels. No weight-conscious reader can afford to pass up this important work. Chapter 1: Outsmarting Your Genetic Legacy Why a Phenotype-Based Diet? The Link Between Genetics and Weight Though weight problems may be hereditary, they need not be a life-long affliction. Our experience as nutrition professionals upholds this, and emerging genomic data demonstrates why. You can stop thinking of your genes as a curse. This book will show how your genes can work for you, instead of against you. The right foods in the right proportions with the right supplements, tied specifically to your genetic profile, will produce genetic equilibrium and the weight loss you want. Within days, you will feel healthier and more satiated. This weight loss can work, for a lifetime, because the diet is exactly tailored to your body and health concerns, as portrayed in the physical expression of your DNA called your phenotype. The logic behind our new individualized phenotypal approach is evident in a truism that anyone who has ever dieted knows firsthand -- that the diet that works great for some people is for others an exercise in futility. Diets are almost as diverse as people -- low-calorie diets, high-protein diets, low-fat diets, grapefruit diets, cabbage soup diets, vinegar diets...the list goes on and on. Diet effectiveness is inconsistent because the dietary chemicals within food act at a molecular level on specific genes, and no two people's genes are the same. Added to the problem of not knowing which diet will work for you is the fact that most trendy diets are unhealthy. Even if they result in weight loss, they work against long-term well-being and may actually do irreversible damage, especially as dieters keep trying new ones to counteract recurring weight gain. The good news is that the uncertainty is over and that these unhealthy diets are no longer necessary! With the help of science, we can now characterize more than ever before the molecular activity of dietary chemicals. We can explain why diets don't come in one-size-fits-all. This has taken the guesswork out of dieting and revolutionized weight loss. It has also made weight loss far more healthy. Unlike gimmick dieting, gene-based nutrition diminishes the likelihood of weight-related maladies such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In fact, this program is entirely unique because it provides an individualized diet, guaranteed to succeed, that will alleviate the weight-related malady to which you're most vulnerable. You'll lose weight and feel better on a phenotype diet because the foods are compatible with you, on a cellular level. Even though our program is structured around micromechanisms, you needn't visit a clinic or register for a program. You needn't spend a lot of money on gene profiling. Everyone can match him- or herself to one of our diets right away, using this book as a guide. We have confidence in your ability to mak...
