Now is the time for Scaleless Dieting. The current market of diet programs, including those with "best-seller" status, demonstrate a 95% failure rate for long-term weight loss for the overweight and obese. Scaleless Dieting claims of 100% safe, sustainable weight loss and general health improvement is unmatched. Scaleless Dieting was designed from decades of research and "common sense" ideas by the author who was in similar physical and mental conditions as many others trying to lose weight and be healthier. Scaleless Dieting is relatively simple, with four basic steps, compared to a majority of the many other diet programs. This makes initiating the program and maintaining it for life extremely easy. Even if the dieter does not follow the steps to Scaleless Dieting explicitly, they can still experience significant health benefits. The diet industry is cruelly dominated by failed and ineffective programs, hypes and misrepresentations. To have a diet system, like Scaleless Dieting, that actually benefits the overweight and obese customers, is crucial for the diet industry and those in need. Now is the time for Scaleless Dieting.

Scaleless Dieting

The Essential Survival Kit For The Overweight, Obese and DiabeticsBy Wendell C. Sleet

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Copyright © 2011 Professor Wendell C. Sleet, BSME
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ISBN: 978-1-4670-3569-9

Contents

Disclaimer.............................................................xiPreface................................................................xiiiIntroduction...........................................................xxviiPART ONE BASIC DIETING CONCEPTS.......................................1Chapter 1 How Much Should You Weigh?...................................3Chapter 2 Benefits for the Diabetics...................................9Chapter 3 Metabolic Syndrome...........................................16Chapter 4 Glycemic Index...............................................19Chapter 5 Free Radicals and Antioxidants...............................22PART TWO CHANGING YOUR LIFE WITH SCALELESS DIETING.....................27Chapter 6 Why Do Diet Plans Fail?......................................29Chapter 7 The Sweet Taste of Soft Drinks...............................38Chapter 8 The Truth About White Flour..................................48Chapter 9 Pass the Potatoes............................................53Chapter 10 The Scaleless Diet Program..................................58PART THREE WEIGHT GAIN IS MORE THAN PHYSICAL...........................71Chapter 11 Self-Esteem and Dieting.....................................73Chapter 12 Depression and Your Health..................................78Chapter 13 Stress, the Modern Weight Gainer............................85Chapter 14 Women, Dieting and Belly Fat................................96PART FOUR YOUR PROTEIN FIX AND EXERCISE................................103Chapter 15 The Skinny on Protein.......................................105Chapter 16 Exercise Anyone?............................................109Chapter 17 Exercise Equipment..........................................118PART FIVE THE AMAZING WORLD OF HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS.....................123Chapter 18 Herbal Supplements..........................................125Chapter 19 Whole Food Multi-Vitamin....................................135Chapter 20 Gymnema Sylvestre...........................................144Chapter 21 White Kidney Bean Extract...................................149Chapter 22 Banaba Leaf Extract.........................................153Chapter 23 Chitosan....................................................156Chapter 24 Cinnamon....................................................160Chapter 25 Bitter Melon................................................164Chapter 26 Mulberry Leaf Extract.......................................167Chapter 27 Chromium....................................................171PART SIX ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS FOR BETTER HEALTH.........................175Chapter 28 Calcium.....................................................177Chapter 29 Magnesium...................................................182Chapter 30 Potassium...................................................186Chapter 31 Alpha-Lipoic Acid...........................................192Chapter 32 Omega 3 (Fatty acid)........................................196Chapter 33 CoQ10.......................................................203Chapter 34 Lecithin....................................................207Chapter 35 Ginkgo Biloba...............................................210Chapter 36 St Johns Wort...............................................214Conclusion.............................................................219Glossary...............................................................223Websites and Resources.................................................231Appendix...............................................................245

Chapter One

How Much Should You Weigh?

Failure is taking the path that everyone else does, success is making your own path—Author Unknown

Every human being on the planet is affected by weights and measures at some point in time. When a baby is born and the congratulations and gender are offered, such as, "It's a boy or girl.", the very next question is "How much does he or she weigh?". In many cases, a baby will be weighed and measured within its first 30 minutes after birth and constantly weighed throughout infancy, as a gauge of overall health and development. Even as we grow and mature, our measured weight is an indicator of our health. If it is below the standard for our general characteristics, we are considered underweight or malnourished. If we are above the standard weights, then we are classified as overweight or obese. In each case, extreme weights are considered unhealthy conditions.

Scales were first invented in the Middle East, as early as, 4000 B.C. At that time, they were not used to weigh people, but goods for trade. These early scales were of the balance-type, which consisted of a pivoted horizontal lever of equal length arms, called the beam, with a weighing pan suspended from each arm. The unknown mass was placed in one pan and the standard masses of known weights were added to the other pan until the beam was level or balanced.

The initial standard mass weights were not fashioned by men, but by nature. In order to weigh small amounts precisely, small objects that were easily obtained and of a consistent size were needed. The grains and seeds of plants were chosen due to their uniformity. A grain of wheat became the grain of weight. Mustard seeds were used to weigh gold in India. The seeds of liquorice plants and of the carob tree were also used. The carob gave us carats, still used today to express the value of gold and diamonds. The Romans gave us our pound weight, which is derived from the Roman word, Libra. This is why the abbreviation of the pound is "lb".

The first step towards people weighing or bathroom scales was not taken until Leonardo da Vinci invented the first self-indicating scale around 1500. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the growth of toll roads, railway shipping and postal services (which all charge by weight) helped stimulate advances in scale technology, thus spring scales were invented. Bathroom scales became popular in the early 1900's, as people became increasingly weight conscious. In the early 1920's, insurance companies coined the term "ideal weight" and began charging people above the targeted weight limits higher premiums, thus the monetary incentives for losing weight was created. This started the process of making diet programs for profit and economical ventures, the mega-industry that it is today.

Many people believe that diets and dieting are modern inventions that gained popularity in the 1980's and 1990's, but the concept of dieting has been around for a very long time.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word diet was used to mean "prescribed course of food, restricted in kind or limited quantity, especially for medical or penal reasons, as in "bread and water diet".

Diets as we know of them now—weight loss regimes—only became common from the 19th century forward. If you go back much earlier, during Biblical times or in early Greece, dieting usually meant something similar to fasting, where restrictions on food intake were for religious or moral reasons, rather than health or medical considerations.

For most of history, the masses of people's main difficulty with food has been getting enough of it—not eating it to excess. Being overweight was often restricted to the wealthy upper classes....