Your Body Knows Best - Softcover

Gittleman, Ann Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501157604 ISBN 13: 9781501157608

Verlag: Gallery Books, 2016

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Discover the remarkable truth…your body knows best.

You’ve tried the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets and failed. You’ve religiously adhered to very low-calorie regimens and watched your weight skyrocket as soon as you resumed former eating habits. The truth is: no one-size-fits-all diet plan works for everyone. But there is a personalized diet that is perfect for you. It’s time to tune in to your ultimate diet guru-yourself-because with Your Body Knows Best, you can custom-tailor a diet that meets your body’s special needs!

Ann Louise Gittleman, author of the famed Fat Flush Plan and Fat Flush for Life, shows you how in this groundbreaking, individualized approach to weight loss. Yes, you can reach and sustain your optimal weight and energy level by eating the foods your body needs. Your customized diet is determined by your ancestry and genetic heritage, your blood type, and your metabolism. Your Body Knows Best was the first book to uncover the possibility of the blood type connection to weight gain.

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Ann Louise Gittleman is a nutritionist, author, columnist, and public speaker. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer in dietary, environmental, and women’s health issues. She is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books on health and nutrition. She has been featured in many publications and television programs including 20/20, The View, Good Morning America, PBS, CNN, Time, Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Real Simple, Glamour, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly, and many more.

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YOUR BODY KNOWS BEST 1 Why Different People
Require Different Diets
Betsy is your typical high-powered Chicago executive. She walks fast, talks fast, and thinks even faster. You might say she’s always on the fast track. Betsy, 35, keeps up with all the latest nutrition information and, therefore, has cut out all fats from her diet and has increased her intake of fiber-rich grains, breads, pasta, and potatoes as the current diet plans dictate. She keeps a diet soda on her desk at all times and, after a hard day at work, treats herself with fat-free yogurt (which tastes even sweeter than ice cream, thanks to the miracle of NutraSweet). Believing that she can “eat more, weigh less,” Betsy cannot understand why she is not losing but gaining weight, is tired all the time, and feels uncomfortably bloated in her abdominal area. Knowing that her diet couldn’t be the culprit, Betsy has increased her exercise program. When that doesn’t help, she becomes convinced that she suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. Her blood type is B and her grandparents come from Eastern Europe.

Monica is a real fitness fanatic. At the age of 42, she is a competitive cyclist in Boston who looks exceedingly fit and has only an 8 percent body fat level. Unfortunately, she doesn’t feel healthy. A family history of elevated cholesterol levels has made her a strict convert to the low-fat, high complex-carbohydrate propaganda, and she has cut all meat and animal products from her diet. But after three years on this regimen, she has begun to suffer from ongoing yeast infections, dry skin, dandruff, chest pains, and, finally, hair loss. Monica is of Irish ancestry, and has type O blood.

Now meet Linda, a 25-year-old hairdresser in Tucson. Linda has become a missionary for vegetarianism, and for good reason. Since giving up all animal products, including meat, chicken, fish, and dairy, she feels lighter and more energetic and has lost 20 pounds. She has no more digestive upsets and can finally jump out of bed in the morning with vigor and vitality. Linda has type A blood; her ancestors hail from the Mediterranean area.

These three women, created as composites from the 7,000-plus case histories I’ve collected throughout my career as a nutritionist, are all following basically the same low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, but with vastly different results. Monica experiences some pretty serious health problems; Betsy has been gaining weight; Linda has been so successful that she tries to get everyone she meets to try her extreme version of the diet. I’ve included the information about their blood types and ancestry for a very important reason: to illustrate that certain biological clues point the way to the kind of dietary information that we need. Why would all of these women on the same diet experience such different results? The reason is that each of their individual chemistries reacts differently to the diet.

Imagine an Eskimo on a low-fat diet. The traditional diet of Eskimos consisted of up to 10 pounds of meat a day, including high quantities of fat, but there is no evidence of cancer or heart disease in their history. Is it possible that through hundreds of generations, the Eskimos actually evolved genetically so their bodies require a diet high in protein and fat in order to stay healthy in their frigid environment? Now think about the typical Oriental or Indian diet, which has historically centered around vegetables and rice. Would this low-fat, low-protein diet provide enough stamina, endurance, energy, and body fat to withstand the extreme environment of the North Pole? Common sense would lead you to answer “No” and that, as it turns out, is the correct answer.
Personalized Nutrition—Not a New Concept
There is no universal diet suitable for everybody. It may seem like a new idea to you, but in fact, the concept of biological uniqueness and personalized nutrition has been around for centuries. Here’s a little bit of international history to prove my point: Ancient Chinese writings and early Egyptian and Greek physicians all incorporated this concept into their healing dietary regimens. Hippocrates, often considered the father of medicine, classified individuals in different categories according to characteristics of their blood and phlegm and the color of the bile. Body structure was another feature Hippocrates told his students to observe when making diagnoses.

Traditional Chinese medicine has developed its own unique system of classifying disease symptoms individualistically. Using tools such as tongue, pulse, and deficiency or excess, yin or yang, and cold or hot patterns diagnosis, Oriental medicine practitioners choose a course of treatment and food therapy for each patient based on the results of their findings in these areas. Some foods and herbs are very strongly indicated and helpful for some individuals but are wrong for others who have different types of ailments. This personalized form of medicine, which was developed thousands of years ago, is still in use today and recently has been gaining renewed popularity in the United States.

Ayurveda is the 6,000-year-old science of India that differentiates individuals in reference to body typing. Color and texture of hair and skin, rate of speech, body size and shape, gait, and even temperament and emotional responses are the clues Ayurvedic physicians look at to determine body type, and assist them in individualizing diagnoses and treatment. Dr. Stuart Rothenberg, national co-director of the U.S. Maharishi Ayur-Veda Medical Center, explains it best. “Western medicine asks what kind of disease the patient is suffering from. Ayurveda asks what kind of patient is suffering from the disease.”

Lucretius, the Roman philosopher, is credited with saying, “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.” The fact is that the concept of nutritional individuality has been a recognized ingredient of good health since antiquity. In modern times as well, there have been many noted researchers who acknowledged the importance of personalizing health and nutrition. Henry Bieler, in his book Food Is Your Best Medicine (Random House, 1965), led the way in modern times with his classification of individuals according to the dominance of their adrenal, thyroid, or pituitary glands. Even before Bieler, body structure classifications were identified by Dr. William H. Sheldon in The Atlas of Men in the 1940s. He divided individuals into three basic types: ectomorph (thin), endomorph (fleshy), and mesomorph (muscular).

Perhaps the most well-known of these personalized health subscribers was the noted biochemist Dr. Roger Williams. He promoted his ideas of biochemical individuality as early as the 1950s, further explaining them in an interview in 1977: “(Biochemical individuality) simply tells us that body chemistries are not the same. Two people of about the same height and weight have about the same total metabolism, but the details of chemical reactions taking place in their bodies may be different. Certain reactions will take place ten times as fast in one individual as another. This makes our nutritional needs different.”

Dr. Williams, the discoverer of pantothenic acid and the namer of folic acid, developed the genetotrophic theory of disease, in which he stated that “each individual has, because of his genetic makeup, distinctive nutritional needs …,” the lack of which predispose him to certain degenerative diseases. He stated that “individuality pervades every part of the body. From birth, human beings are highly distinctive in both microscopic and gross anatomy, in the functioning of their organs, the composition of body fluids and in nutritional...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gallery Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501157604
• ISBN 13: 9781501157608
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: River House; mail@indigo.de; ; Schlachthofstr. 36 A; Hamburg; 21079; Deutschland