The Fat Resistance Diet

No more counting carbs, calories, or fat grams! This revolutionary diet plan works with your hormones to curb your appetite, boost your metabolism, take weight off?and never put it on again.Cutting-edge scientific research shows that losing weight is not about carbs, calories, or even willpower?it?s about a hormone called leptin and how it functions in your body. Leptin is your body?s natural weight-loss mechanism: it curbs your appetite and jump-starts your metabolism. And when those hormones are working properly, they make you literally fat resistant! You will lose weight effortlessly and efficiently, and never gain those pounds back.A leading expert in the field of nutritional medicine, Dr. Leo Galland knows that if you?ve struggled to lose weight on diet after diet but still can?t shake those excess pounds, chances are you are ?leptin resistant??your body no longer responds to leptin, making it impossible to slim down, no matter what size portions or how few carbs you eat. But here?s the good news: by adding the right foods to your diet, you can quickly reverse leptin resistance and reprogram your body to start melting away the pounds.The Fat Resistance Diet is the first weight-loss plan designed specifically to combat leptin resistance, using a unique combination of anti-inflammatory and hormone-balancing foods to get your hormones working again. Used by hundreds of Dr. Galland?s patients with remarkable results, the three-phase regimen includes:STAGE 1: A fourteen-day starter program that delivers a loss of ten to fourteen pounds in the first two weeks. Inflammation-fighting superfoods work to trigger rapid weight loss and set your hormones straight.STAGE 2: A ninety-day plan that builds on the benefits of Stage 1 and delivers a loss of at least five pounds a month. You can enjoy a greater variety of foods while still keeping your hormones working overtime.STAGE 3: Sustainable for life, the meal plans in this phase keep your hormones doing their job, even after you reach your target weight, and offer an expanded, flavorful menu.With delicious recipes that are rich in healing carbs, healing fats, and powerful phytonutrients, the diet is a breeze to stick with?there are no hard-to-find ingredients, no expensive supplements, and no complicated proportions to figure out. Best of all, when you make the Fat Resistance Diet part of your life, your hormones will do your weight-loss work for you! This groundbreaking program at last reveals the true secret to weight loss success, and will transform you from a chronic dieter into a lean, fat-fighting machine.From the Hardcover edition.

The Rosedale Diet

Finally -- the ultimate diet for fast, safe weight loss, lifelong health, and longer life, based on more than twenty years of research and the latest findings on appetite and weight. Metabolic specialist Ron Rosedale, M.D., has designed the Rosedale Diet to regulate the powerful hormone leptin, which controls appetite and weight loss by telling the brain when to eat, how much to eat -- and when to stop. New research shows that leptin may be one of the body's most important hunger control mechanisms. Control leptin, and you control your weight.

Good Calories, Bad Calories

The Manual is a revealing insider look at how bad boys think, date, and mate and is the perfect addition to relationship books like He's Just Not That Into You and It's Called a Break-Up Because It's Broken. It shows how readers can work the male approach to their advantage. Every guy has at least a little bit of bad boy in him, and The Manual will tell readers what they need to know to counter such tactics in every man. Steve Santagati brings years of experience to the table: as he says, it's like describing a bee sting versus getting one yourself - there's no comparison. Understanding Steve and his kind of bad boy makes understanding all other men so much easier. If you can figure bad boys out, you're a long way toward figuring them all out. Not only is the book practical, it's a hilarious read, told from the perspective of someone who's neither condescending nor callous but rather bold, honest, and street-smart. Steve Santagati wants to level the playing field, to give women control. Date him, dump him, marry him - now it's the reader's call, not his.

French Women Don't Get Fat

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny?and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.French women don?t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this ?French paradox??how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, ?Dr. Miracle,? came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day. Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you?d swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control?from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman. A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her life?a six-year-old?s first taste of Champagne, treks in search of tiny blueberries (called myrtilles) in the woods near her grandmother?s house, a near-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of ?French in action,? drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully. Here are a culture?s most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread?even chocolate?without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?From the Hardcover edition.

The Hardness Factor

Hard is good, harder is better -- for your health, your libido, your life. Such is the provocative premise behind Dr. Steven Lamm's The Hardness Factor, a groundbreaking book that will change the way men live and love. The Hardness Factor measures male health through the quality of an erection -- perhaps the greatest male motivator for better living (more so than fear of cancer, heart attack, or stroke). The Hardness Factor asks, Can men be hard and in shape for sex their entire lives? The answer is, absolutely. Here for the first time are scientific, evidence-based regimens -- emphasizing nutrition, supplements, and exercise -- to increase erectile quality. After following The Hardness Factor, you will not only achieve optimal health and sexual fitness but also understand why the penis is the best barometer of a man's health.