Fat Is Not Your Fate : Outsmart Your Genes and Lose the Weight Forever

by Susan Mitchell; Catherine Christie; Marianne Smith Edge

• ISBN13: 9780743250399
• ISBN10: 0743250397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-21
• Publisher: Fireside

Summary

Fat Is Not Your Fate offers a groundbreaking, scientifically proven approach to weight loss-one that allows you to follow a personalized nutrition plan tailored to your own genetic blueprint. Based on the latest research, this program includes: Personalized easy-to-follow menu plans for your gene type, Strategies to control your weight triggers, Easy, tasty recipes for your meal plan, Your optimum caloric intake and fat-protein-carb balance, Tips on exercise and activities to keep the weight off.

Author Biography

Dr. Susan Mitchell is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and Fellow of the American Dietetic Association. A nationally recognized authority on nutrition and stress, she is the nutrition expert for ThirdAge.com and a consultant to the Produce for Better Health Foundation's 5 A Day the Color Way program. Dr. Catherine Christie is the Director of Nutrition Programs at the University of North Florida. A Registered Dietitian, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and Fellow of the American Dietetic Association, she is President-Elect of the Florida Dietetic Association and a former Chairman of the Dietetics and Nutrition Council, which regulates the nutrition profession in Florida. Mitchell and Christie are the coauthors of I'd Kill for a Cookie and Eat to Stay Young. Learn more from www.fatisnotyourfate.com Visit us online at www.simonsays.com.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	xi
CHAPTER 1: OUTSMARTING YOUR GENETIC LEGACY	1	(8)
Why a Phenotype-Based Diet? The Link Between Genetics and Weight
CHAPTER 2: LEARN YOUR PHENOTYPE AND WHAT TRIGGERS YOUR WEIGHT GAIN	9	(15)
The Phenotype Assessment and the Weight Trigger Quiz
CHAPTER 3: THE ROAD MAP TO YOUR PHENOTYPE DIET	24	(8)
Tips on How to Use This Book
CHAPTER 4: THE PHENOTYPE A DIET	32	(38)
Outsmarting Addiction-Linked Weight Gain
CHAPTER 5: THE PHENOTYPE B DIET	70	(31)
Outsmarting High Blood Pressure-Linked Weight Gain
CHAPTER 6: THE PHENOTYPE C DIET	101	(38)
Outsmarting Cardiovascular Disease-Linked Weight Gain
CHAPTER 7: THE PHENOTYPE D DIET	139	(34)
Outsmarting Diabetes-Linked Weight Gain
CHAPTER 8: THE PHENOTYPE E DIET	173	(39)
Outsmarting Emotional Eating-Linked Weight Gain
CHAPTER 9: THE PHENOTYPE H DIET	212	(35)
Outsmarting Hormone-Linked Weight Gain
APPENDIX A: NO-PREP FOODS	247	(6)
APPENDIX B: READY REMEDIES	253	(4)
APPENDIX C: RECIPES	257	(30)
APPENDIX D: ANTIOXIDANT-RICH FOODS	287	(2)
APPENDIX E: FAT COMPARISON	289	(2)
APPENDIX F: HIGH-FIBER FOODS	291	(2)
APPENDIX G: CAFFEINE CONTENT IN VARIOUS BEVERAGES	293	(2)
APPENDIX H: MERCURY CONTENT IN FISH AND SEAFOOD	295	(2)
RESOURCES	297	(4)
REFERENCES	301	(22)
INDEX	323

Excerpts

Chapter 1: Outsmarting Your Genetic Legacy Why a Phenotype-Based Diet?The Link Between Genetics and WeightThough weight problems may be hereditary, they need not be a life-long affliction. Our experience as nutrition professionals upholds this, and emerging genomic data demonstrates why. You can stop thinking of your genes as a curse. This book will show how your genes can work for you, instead of against you. The right foods in the right proportions with the right supplements, tied specifically to your genetic profile, will produce genetic equilibrium and the weight loss you want. Within days, you will feel healthier and more satiated. This weight loss can work, for a lifetime, because the diet is exactly tailored to your body and health concerns, as portrayed in the physical expression of your DNA called your phenotype.The logic behind our new individualized phenotypal approach is evident in a truism that anyone who has ever dieted knows firsthand -- that the diet that works great for some people is for others an exercise in futility. Diets are almost as diverse as people -- low-calorie diets, high-protein diets, low-fat diets, grapefruit diets, cabbage soup diets, vinegar diets...the list goes on and on. Diet effectiveness is inconsistent because the dietary chemicals within food act at a molecular level on specific genes, and no two people's genes are the same. Added to the problem of not knowing which diet will work for you is the fact that most trendy diets are unhealthy. Even if they result in weight loss, they work against long-term well-being and may actually do irreversible damage, especially as dieters keep trying new ones to counteract recurring weight gain.The good news is that the uncertainty is over and that these unhealthy diets are no longer necessary! With the help of science, we can now characterize more than ever before the molecular activity of dietary chemicals. We can explain why diets don't come in one-size-fits-all. This has taken the guesswork out of dieting and revolutionized weight loss. It has also made weight loss far more healthy.Unlike gimmick dieting, gene-based nutrition diminishes the likelihood of weight-related maladies such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In fact, this program is entirely unique because it provides an individualized diet, guaranteed to succeed, that will alleviate the weight-related malady to which you're most vulnerable. You'll lose weight and feel better on a phenotype diet because the foods are compatible with you, on a cellular level.Even though our program is structured around micromechanisms, you needn't visit a clinic or register for a program. You needn't spend a lot of money on gene profiling. Everyone can match him- or herself to one of our diets right away, using this book as a guide.We have confidence in your ability to make the most of your genetic inheritance, because this program has helped hundreds of our patients and clients synchronize their foods and eating habits with their genes. Consistently, good health and weight loss flowed from their efforts. One patient, a cardiologist who had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, came to us because she was not getting results from the high-carbohydrate, heart-healthy diet recommended at the time. Whenever she ate a plateful of pasta, her blood sugar rocketed. A glucose receptor problem related to her genes and extra weight barricaded her cells against blood sugar. Glucose accumulated in her bloodstream. We knew she needed a diet personalized to her genetic risk for diabetes, not the general recommendation. A lower-total-carb diet, combined with high-fiber carbohydrates and protein, worked better. When we customized her diet, she lost weight and kept it off.In another example, an overweight and hypertensive police officer couldn't meet his department's rigorous fitness requirements. With his excess weight and high