You, on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
by Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen
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Author: Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. RoizenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN: 0743292545
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Free Press
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- You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
- YOU: On a Walk
- You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty
Book Reviews of You, on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Book Review: Has some misinformation, and some salvaging graces
Summary: 2 Stars
The good part is these guys put together a complete program of fitness and "waist" reduction for greater health, and it is viable that many if not most people could stick to it (once it got to be an established habit). It would result in our population in the US getting much healthier, HOWEVER, they have not researched this book nearly as thoroughly, nor is their knowledge of the scientific findings of what is good for you, and what is bad for you nearly as extensive as that of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, the author of Eat To Live (also available on this site). This book (the YOU book) also has some dangerous and incorrect ideas in it. To name one, they recommend you take Vitamin E at 400 to 800 IU per day.
There was a recent study that compared people who took 400 IU of Vitamin E or more, per day to those who took 200 IU or less per day. The final results were the group taking the higher doses were more likely to die of heart attacks, and more likely to die of all causes. The lesson is take Vitamin E by eating a lot of veggies and fruits to get it through your food. I can't remember where I read that study at the moment, but here's another one:
Waters DD, Alderman EL, Hsia J, Howard BV, Cobb FR, Rogers WJ, et
al. Effects of hormone replacement therapy and antioxidant vitamin supplements
on coronary atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled
trial. JAMA. 2002;288:2432-40. [PMID: 12435256]
This study found that the women who took 800 IU of Vitamin E per day, OR took 1000 mg of Vitamin C per day, or took both, were subject to significantly WORSE outcomes than those who didn't. Specifically, of the vitamin takers 26 died of an MI (heart attack), or had a stroke, or had a non-fatal heart attack while of the placebo group only 18 died or had one of the other results. Due to study size, the ratio was 1.5, which means the vitamin taking people were 50% more likely to have an MI, or stroke than the ones not taking vitamins.
There are other things in this book that are inadequate, or wrong (and even dangerous) such as the suggestion you should add oil to your diet, when oil is a processed food that has virtually NO NUTIRENTS, and is 100% fat! (Fat itself is a "macro-nutrient" meaning you need some to burn for energy, but oils like olive oil have no or only trace amounts of the VERY important "micro-nutrients" which help repair your blood vessels and your body on the cellular level.) This diet advocates you get 25% of your calories from "healthy oils", and this is outrageous as they are very poor in real nutritional value. It's true that mono-unsaturated fats are less likely to kill you quickly, but they will still kill you! The Mediterranean diet has been found to be healthy, not because they use olive oil instead of peanut oil or lard, but because of all the vegetables and salads they eat, which contain anti-oxidants and phytochemicals and phytonutrients (the real "micro-nutrients") which help heal some of the damage caused by eating the olive oil ! !
On the good side, they do recommend you reduce processed foods (except for oils), and that you exercise regularly. As I said before, their plan would make America healthier, but probably only by about 40 to 50%. If you really want to get healthy, you should read, then implement the findings of science which are elucidated in a book that Dr. Oz himself described as: "A Medical Breakthrough".
This book is Eat To Live, by Dr Joel Fuhrman, who is one of the world's greatest authorities in nutrition, having read over 60,000 scientific articles over the past decades!! He has even come up with a short formula to describe health and nutrition which is as brilliant in this area, as the famous
E = MC2 (squared) is in physics. Dr. Fuhrman's is: H = N/C for level of Health is equal to the amount of Nutrients you get in your food divided by the number of Calories you take in. In other words, the more nutrients you can get per calorie, the better off your health will be. This was demonstrated in my family by my blood pressure dropping 40 points, my wife's cholesterol dropping 60 points, and my losing weight from 198 lbs to 165 (my old high school weight) WITHOUT any exercise! (Of course, I'd be in even better shape if I did the exercises Dr Oz & Roizen recommend, but I'd be in much worse shape, if I ate the way they advocate.
So, bottom line, after this book, read Dr. Fuhrman's book to find out the REAL TRUTH about diet and nutrition, and how to maximize your health through eating, not just alter your diet a little, while still conforming to many of societies bad food habits.
How do I have the right to say all this? I'm a physician myself. And I'm not just a physician, I'm one who has spent the last 40 years researching all the alternative medicine research about diet and nutrition. I knew more about nutrition (and specifically about the need for folic acid in the diet) when I was in high school, than did my older brother, who had his Master's degree in Physiology, and who'd done research on improving athletic performance. Over the last 20 years I'd never met or read anything by a doctor or alternative medicine authority that I didn't already know most of, related to diet & nutrition. (I'm sure I learned a few isolate facts here and there.) But when I read Eat To Live, I was blown away by how much more Dr. Fuhrman knew about nutrition than I did.
He has over 1,000 scientific references in the back of his book (tied like bookmarks so you know which fact goes with which article). Some of the things he said I thought were baloney from my previous reading, so I went to the original sources (like New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet (a British medical journal), and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. After I looked up the original articles, I discovered that not only was he telling the truth, but also, in a couple of instances, he described what the major findings of a study were, better than the author of the study did in their own abstracts of the article!!
One more point, I'm not just a physician, I'm a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation doctor, so I get to see the results of American's lousy eating habits, as I'm in the specialty of medicine wherein I have to help the people get better and more functional AFTER they've already had their stroke or heart attack from their dietary indiscretions. So read Eat To Live to get the best info, and I don't have any association with, nor get any profit from promoting Dr. Fuhrman's book, other than the knowledge that I may be saving lives and people from becoming disabled.
Summary of You, on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Drs Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, authors of the million-copy bestseller 'YOU: The Owner's Manual', have devised a diet that is so effective you'll notice changes in your body immediately. Starting with a Two-Week Reboot that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist, you will shed your unwanted weight forever. 'YOU on a Diet' is not another faddy crash-diet weight loss plan: you will lose weight -- and a lot of it -- but you will also gain the knowledge, insight and power to keep off the pounds you lose. / Find out your ideal shape -- and how to reach it / Lose weight without hunger -- you need only 100 calories less a day / Enjoy flexibility -- you can still indulge in treats / Rebalance body chemicals and hormones -- these, not willpower, dictate what you eat / Stop worrying about what you weigh -- it's your waist size that counts Knowledge is the most powerful motivator when it comes to making the right food choices: know the 'why' and you'll successfully handle the 'how'. Roizen and Mehmet's diet is one of the most cutting-edge and easy-to-follow of our time. Including: / Amazing YOU facts (e.g. 95% of your body's serotonin is found in your intestines -- there's only 2-3% in your nervous system) / Eating tips (e.g. eating a small handful of nuts before your meal tricks your body into thinking that you are fuller sooner) / Interactive questionnaires (e.g. are your emotions affecting your food choices?) Successful long-term weight loss is only found in one place: YOU.Book Description
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.
Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.
Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.
With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet--The Owner's Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.
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"Fat Chances: The Secret Story of What's in Your Belly" by Michael F. Roizen, MD, and Mehmet C. Oz, MD
Whether you're carrying a few extra pounds of fat on your thighs or a suitcase's worth in your belly, it's hard not to think about fat. You feel it when you walk, you roll on it when you sleep, and you curse it when you try to slide into last year's jeans. But while most of us are intimately familiar with how fat looks on the outside, we're not quite as familiar with how it works on the inside.As we explain in YOU: On a Diet, we believe that to change your body, you need to know your body.
In the simplest form, everyone knows the formula for gaining weight. Daily buckets of ranch dip plus photo-album-sized hunks of cheesecake plus a life of couch-dwelling equals a very unfortunate conclusion: too-frequent popped buttons.
But many of us really don't know how fat works and how it works against us. Here's the inside story on the story of your insides.
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