The No-grain Diet

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Healthier than Dr Atkins, huge in the States, this all-new weight loss plan is the last diet you'll ever need. Forget fats as the biggest dietary sin, the latest scientific evidence now shows that the real culprits in escalating weight gain are grains, starches and sugars. By eliminating grains from your diet, you actually reprogramme your mind and body to release fat and burn it, and as a result the weight you lose is kept off - permanently. This all-new low carbohydrate diet moves on from Dr Atkins, cutting out the unhealthy side-effects of that diet and including a wider range of healthy foods than Atkins or any of his successors. The No Grain diet offers three plans tailored to suit your needs: The booster plan (to ease you more gently into the plan), the core plan (for faster results), and the advanced plan (for those who need to lose a lot of weight fast for health reasons). What's more, it presents a unique psychological technique to combat cravings, bolster your self-belief and help you ride low periods, which usually lead you to break the diet. With delicious recipes and advice on additional factors to further support your new healthy lifestyle. The No Grain Diet is the last diet book you'll ever need.





Impressively modern in design, The No-Grain Diet brings a realistic viewpoint to the problems of weight loss in a genuine effort to improve the health of an ever-growing number of obese Americans. Offering a variety of "food plans," along with a set of techniques aimed at controlling emotional eating and cravings for "bad" foods, Dr. Joseph Mercola clearly understands how to motivate us--in one section, he suggests that rather than "living by the scale," we measure our success in relation to the fit of our favorite pair of slightly-too-snug jeans. Many recipes are included, most of which are free of the boring flavor substitutes so common in diet books.

The diet itself combines several familiar concepts. The "no grain" model emphasizes organic vegetables and quality protein, with limited fruits and absolutely no simple carbs. Mercola's idea of "quality protein" is somewhat startling--he is deeply concerned about toxins, and urges grass-fed beef over potentially mercury-filled fish. His main point is frequently reinforced: refined grains of any type are basically deadly and eating them should be viewed as an unhealthy addiction.

Here, the book veers off in a new direction: rather than gently nudging our habits in a new direction, he suggests we break what he insists is an addictive cycle with a method called "EFT," or "Emotional Freedom Technique." As a way to avoid surrendering to desires, his system of tapping acupressure points and repeating affirmations is used to overcome them. While repeat dieters will understand the necessity of examining emotional ties to food, Mercola's voice becomes a tad strident, and possibly downright offensive to those with a different opinion on what constitutes an addiction. --Jill Lightner

Customer Reviews ::

Yes to grains. - Mandylee Aitken - Utah
I'm writing this comment in response to the advice given regarding grains not being good for humans to consume. I'm a very healthy and diet-conscious person, and I eat grains. I have never had a weight problem or any health problems. In fact, I'm repeatedly mistaken to be 10 years younger than I am. My point is, I believe that people are obese and unhealthy because they consume foods that are over-processed. Thus, changing the composition of grains by altering them and causing them to be toxic to our bodies. It is true that complex and starch carbs can cause you to gain weight, and you need to be modest when consuming them. However, if you are healthy and active, and don't eat grains that are processed and mixed with all kinds of garbage, then I feel you don't need to be concerned about eating grains. I couldn't imagine going to the gym and lifting weights without fueling my body with the carbs it needs for energy. God put grains on the earth not only for the fowls and the beasts, but for us to consume also. I'm sorry Dr. Mercola, I agree with 99.9% of what you say, but I'm going to have to disagree on this one. Again, it's the poor food choices, and over-indulgences that cause people to be unhealthy and prone to disease and obesity. Not to mention, the food corporations who are so willing to fill our pure foods full of junk before it hits the shelves. I'm not a doctor or nutritionist, but I have experience in diet and nutrition, and a desire to live a long, quality life and to sustain my health. Not to mention, an uncanny intuition on what is right or wrong for me. As always, my intuition will serve me well, particularily on my decision I've made to continue to consume grains.