The Slow Down
Diet
Eating
for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight
Loss
by
Marc David
Healing
Arts Press, 2005
If you were told to take your
time at the
dinner table over the next eight weeks, eating fine foods with good
friends,
imbibing in quality beverages and truly enjoying yourself as if you
were
on an extended vacation, would you accept the challenge?
Would you do it if you knew
you'd lose
weight and become healthier in the process?
| Based on the belief (with
plenty of research
to back it up) that fast foods, hurried eating, stressful lifestyles
and
cheap artificial flavors are contributing to America's obesity
epidemic,
this book prescribes a radical alternative: slow and easy enjoyment of
good foods in pleasant environments. |
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This diet works, author Marc
David explains,
because it suppresses fat-creating hormones and encourages efficient
digestion
and a more active metabolism.
David, a nutritionist schooled
in the psychology
of eating, is a workshop leader at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and
Health
and the author of Nourishing
Wisdom.
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The
Slow Down Diet
Lessons from
the French
Do you know how
the French "do it"
when it comes to food? When asked this question most people familiar
with
the culture comment that the French take a few hours for lunch, they
drink
a generous amount of red wine with their meals, they eats lots of
cheese
and high-fat foods, their portions tend to be smaller, their midday
meal
is the largest of the day, they're fanatic about using fresh foods and
high-quality ingredients, they don't exercise as much as Americans,
they
smoke a lot, they're thinner, and they dine and celebrate their meals
as
opposed to eating and running. Until recently, the French didn't even
have
a term for "fast food."
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