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The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780767905640
ISBN: 0767905644
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: January 02, 2002
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: January 02, 2002
Studio: Broadway
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People are unique in more ways than we can see. Stomachs and other internal organs come in many different shapes and sizes. Digestive juices, too, can vary dramatically from one person to another. Thus, according to author William Linz Wolcott, founder of Healthexcel, a company that provides metabolic typing for individuals, it stands to reason that different foods have very different effects on different people.
Wolcott believes that tailoring your diet to your body's particular quirks--metabolic typing--will improve digestion, circulation, immunity, energy, and mood. To determine your type, he has you take a 65-question test (the questions range from nose moisture to how you feel about potatoes), then place yourself in one of three categories: protein type, carbo type, or mixed type.
The protein type is instructed to eat a diet that's 40 percent protein, 30 percent fat, and 30 percent carbs. The carbo type gets 60 percent carbs, 25 percent protein, and 15 percent fat. And the mixed type should consume 50 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, and 20 percent fat, although this type has to play with the ratios a little more to find the optimal mix.
Although The Metabolic Typing Diet is based on information from researchers the majority of the public will never have heard of, Wolcott makes a strong case that it's all based on common sense: most of the dietary problems we have come from ignoring the foods that make us feel satisfied and energetic in favor of ones that we feel we're supposed to eat, or foods that we eat in desperation because our last meal left us hungry or lethargic. If we just eat the foods that make us feel right, Wolcott argues, we'll never feel like things have gone horribly wrong. --Lou Schuler
Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry
For hereditary reasons, your metabolism is unique. Cutting-edge research shows that no single diet works well for everyone–the very same foods that keep your best friend slim may keep you overweight and feeling unhealthy and fatigued. Now, William Wolcott, a pioneer in the field of metabolic research, has developed a revolutionary weight-loss program that allows you to identify your "metabolic type" and create a diet that suits your individual nutritional needs.In The Metabolic Typing Diet, Wolcott and acclaimed science writer Trish Fahey provide simple self-tests that you can use to discover your own metabolic type and determine what kind of diet will work best for you. It might be a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet filled with pasta and grains, or a high-fat, high-protein diet focused on meat and seafood, or anything in between. By detailing exactly which foods and food combinations are right for you, The Metabolic Typing Diet at last reveals the secret to shedding unwanted pounds and achieving optimum vitality with lasting results.The Metabolic Typing Diet will enable you to:
Achieve and maintain your ideal weight
Eliminate sugar cravings
Enjoy sustained energy and endurance
Conquer indigestion, fatigue, and allergies
Bolster your immune system
Overcome anxiety, depression, and mood swings
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Metabolic Typing Diet
Been involved in the alternative healthcare industry for many years. One of the most important books I have read in years. A must read !!!!
Rating: - We're not all built the same...
This book was an enormous help to me in my quest to gain more energy and vitality. I am in relatively good shape but have pretty dramatic low blood sugar episodes on the typical Amercian diet. For instance, a glass of OJ in the morning will send my blood sugar plummeting, and my mood and energy right along with it, within minutes of ingestion as will any caffeinated beverage. Eating a steak not only appeals to me but has never made me gain weight like low fat sugary snacks have. I am without a ... Read More
Rating:  - Not terribly impressed.
Bought this book hoping for some insight into the foods that would be good for me. I've been doing WW and am losing weight, but feel that the prepackaged foods aren't really the best. Wanting to incorporate a more healthy alternative, I found this book.
Basically, there is a 65 question questionnaire, that unless you have paid very close attention to how food makes you feel, you'll most likely be guessing at them. I've been on slimfast, Atkins, raw food diets, etc... but I never really ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Tool for Customizing Individual Diets
Those who have progressed through the "zone," eating "right 4 your type," and going "Paleo," will find this book to be a useful tool to round out and fine tune their dietary choices. A number of perspectives are covered. The self-administered survey is useful and informative. I feel enriched for having access to the information that has contributed to the success of my current regimen of eating Paleo. As with any additional book, there is a temptation to abandon elements of the diet that are working ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book!
Logically presented and in plain language! I was able to ascertain with ease what metabolic I am and follow it. I actually feel better!
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