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 enlarge | Authors: Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen
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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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 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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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 , 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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 Elite humor and science. More educational than practical. November 20, 2006
126 out of 206 found this review helpful
Loading a book with humorous caricatures, myths, and factoids is a risky undertaking, when readers expect doctors to remain "formal". But, the authors have opted to present hard science in simple artistic format and succeeded in rendering it palatable, at least for the segment of readers interested in the mechanics of disease. The gamble with caricatures added a legendary aura to the book that will endure for future generations.
The main contribution in the book, beside its educational style, is emphasizing the "waist size" as a reliable index for healthy living. The authors advanced their argument through physiological reasoning. They focused on the omental and skin fats and intestinal infection and inflammation in relation to waist size. Thus, the smaller is the waist size, the lesser the inflammation and the depot of fat that hinders health.
The book falls into an introduction, 12 chapters, and three appendices that could be summarized as follows.
Introduction: "You: On a Diet. Work Smarter, Not Harder" introduces the reader to the main idea of the book. That is management of waist size through understanding the biology of eating. It tests the reader's common knowledge through a multiple choice test that targets the various aspects of the history and science of eating
Chapter 1:" The Ideal Body: What Your body Is supposed to Look Like" discusses the interplay of genetics and environment in shaping our physique.
Chapter 2: "Can't Get No satisfaction: the Science of Appetite" describes the rule of the central nervous system in controlling satiety through hormonal feedback from the stomach, intestine, and fat. It simplifies matters through two hormones: Leptin for satisfaction and Ghrelin for hunger.
Chapter 3: "Eater's Digest: How Food travels through Your Body" describes, in an educational style, the journey of food from mouth, tongue, stomach, intestine, colon, to liver, heart, muscles. Its humorous caricatures make it invaluable and entertaining.
Chapter 4: "Gut Check: The Dangerous Battles of Inflammation in Your Belly" describes the first battle of digestion between the body and food intake within the intestine. The outcome of digestion affects the liver, skin, and general health. Its main hostile participants are inflammation and infection. Omental, skin, and liver fat replete from the ingested food. It considers the intestine as the second brain by virtue of its millions of neurons and 95% of whole body serotonin.
Chapter 5: "Taking a fat Chance: How Fat Ruins Your Health" dwells on the omentum fat, described in chapter 4, and extends its effects to arterial narrowing and mechanical hindrance of breathing and mobility. Arterial narrowing deprives the whole body of its health causing cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Omental fat is claimed to be more ominous than subcutaneous fat because the omentum lies on the solid vital organs while the subcutaneous fat is peripheral and remote.
Chapter 6: "Metabolic Motors: Your Body's Hormonal fat Burners" describes how metabolism is managed by hormonal signals from the adrenals, thyroids, and gonads.
Chapter 7: "Make the Move: How You Can Burn Fat Faster" discusses the effect of exercise, weight lifting (strength) and aerobics (stamina) on developing the energy management system by: increasing metabolism, burn energy, release endorphins (pleasure stimulants), and unclog blood vessels.
Chapter 8: "The Chemistry of Emotions: The Connection between Feelings and Food" discusses the relationship between behavior and neurotransmitters: norepinephrine, serotonin, dopamine, gamma aminobutyric acid, and nitric oxide. It thus relates eating to emotions such as anger, depression, anxiety, stress, jealousy, and loneliness.
Chapter 9: "Shame on Who? The Psychology of failed Diet" deals with the thought process of dieting versus the action process. It describes three areas of personality tests: eating pattern, exercise pattern, and coping pattern.
Chapter 10: "Make a You-Turn" describes strategies for accomplishing healthy body through eating, exercising, and coping with failure and recovery. It makes the waist size its critical index for success. Here where academic reasoning addresses the universal suffering from distended bellies in contemporary subjects.
Chapter 11: "The You activity Plan: Physical Strategies for Waist Management" is where the authors default. They suggest three-20-minute sessions per week of strengthening and stretching exercises. Those range from shoulder rolling, crossing, clapping, forward bend, push up, yoga poses, crunches, to dumbbell squats, lunges, and rowing. Here, the reader senses the detachment of academics from real advancement in workout experience.
Chapter 12: "The You Diet; The Waist-Management Eating Plan" recommends three meals plus snacks daily and dessert every other day. It prohibits sugars, simple carbohydrates, fructose, trans fat, saturated fat, and flour. It also has extensive menu and advices on how to choose among fast food if you have to. The forty pages of menu is a total waste, as people do not trust medical books in preparing their meals (personal opinion).
The three appendices deal with drugs, plastic surgery, and digestive surgery for overweight people.
The major drawback in the book is the exercise recommendation and meals menu. Those show the aloofness of the authors from modern America. The web is rich in better ideas on exercise and nutrition that work and get results. The book should have limited its scope to what the authors know best: applied physiology.
Mohamed F. El-Hewie
Author of
Essentials of Weightlifting and Strength Training
 Unscientific, wrong-headed "advice." July 23, 2007
121 out of 205 found this review helpful
These two doctors, I think, really mean well. They are enthusiastic and I believe they are sincere in helping people to lose weight. Unfortunately, neither one of them is a scientist, and have no idea of food chemistry. They went to medical school, got the usual education, probably the basics on vitamins and nutritional deficiencies, but nothing on the actual chemistry of proteins, carbs and fats. This program might help you lose weight, but it falsely promotes long-term health. Despite all these fad diets that have cropped up, cancer, heart disease, degenerative diseases, diabetes, etc continue to be an epidemic. The docs say all the "politically correct" things - low fat, low sugar, whole grains, no trans fat, saturated fat, soy products - but are misguided. Here are their misguided principles, and the sources to back them up.
1. soy. it is NOT a health food. See Kaayla Daniel's "The Whole Soy Story."
2. They haven't a clue about grain processing, that most breads, pastas, cereals have a compound called phytic acid, which interferes with mineral absorption. See Sally Fallon's "Nourishing Traditions."
3. Fats. They vilify coconut oil, which is extensively documented as a superior fat, a medium-chain triglyceride that provides numerous health benefits. See Bruce Fife's "The Coconut Oil Miracle." In addition, they vilify red meat, vilify saturated fat; and they know nothing of grass fed beef versus cows that are fed seed grains; grains are high in omega 6's, whereas grass is what cows eat by nature. Mary G. Enig, author of "Know Your Fats," IS a Phd scientist in lipid chemistry, and gives the lowdown on cholesterol, saturated fats (both essentiial). Trans fats and processed polyunsaturated fats (all margarines, shoertenings) are carcinogenic, cause bad cholesterol to rise, and stiffness of the arteries. These docs know nothing of the peroxidation, or the harmful effects of processed vegetable oils.
The books I recommended will provide one with scientifically-based information.
Has some misinformation, and some salvaging graces November 30, 2006
107 out of 147 found this review helpful
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.
Yo-Yo Dieters Dream! November 13, 2006
91 out of 164 found this review helpful
This book taught me that you aren't really eating "normally" on most diets. Your body confuses a diet with a time of famine and is trying to keep you alive. Your body doesn't know that you can afford to lose the weight, and that the "famine" is self-imposed. It explains the role that chronic low-grade stress (work, relationships, etc.) plays on weight gain.
The book explains how to eat well for your body so that you are satisfied, not hungry, and in a way that your body knows it is OK to shed pounds. Your goal is to remain satisfied or pleasantly full throughout the day. The other part of the book that resonated with me is that variety is what is killing us. The authors suggest that you automate your breakfast and lunch, eating the same thing or from a small group of things every day. This takes the guesswork out of things. Then you should eat a handful of nuts before dinner, so that you do not overeat. It also explains the effect that "bad foods" have on your hormones and brain chemistry vs. the effect that "good foods" have - other than just the extra calories that you are intaking. This was most interesting, and what sets it apart from other diet books or plans.
The difference between the You Diet and any other that I have tried is that there was no 2-3 day period of feeling terrible or having to adjust. Just a clean-out of highly processed foods from our kitchen and a trip to Trader Joes for some healthy foods and lots of label reading. Now I just feel better and better the longer I do it. It is amazing how tasty whole grain foods can be and how much more they fill you up than processed carbohydrates. My husband is even enjoying the foods I am making!
 "Waist" of Time February 15, 2007
89 out of 155 found this review helpful
I can condense the entire book into 4 sentences:
1. Eat less
2. Walk 30 minutes a day
3. Don't eat junk food
4. Drink more water
There you have it.
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