The Balance: Your Personal Prescription for *Super Metabolism *Renewed Vitality *Maximum Health *Instant Rejuvenation - Softcover

Garcia, Oz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060987375 ISBN 13: 9780060987374

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

Welcome to the wonderful wizardry of Oz

What is the balance?

The Balance is a personalized plan to correct metabolic imbalances and boost your body's efficiency by combining nutritional planning and exercise with cutting-edge supplementation and stress management.

Based on your answers to a 45-question health and lifestyle quiz, you will gain:

• Enhanced energy and endurance
• Improved concentration
• Better ability to cope with stress
• A reduction in premature aging

To find out more, take the test today!

About this title

Review

Oz Garcia is known in New York City as the nutritionist to see if you want to become full of vitality like his other clients, among them actress Winona Ryder, designer Nicole Miller, and supermodel Yasmeen Ghouri. He wrote The Balance in part because he couldn't keep up with the demand for his consultations.

With a 45-question quiz, Garcia will help you define yourself as a metabolically fast, slow, or mixed burner. While you'd think it'd be beneficial to be a fast burner, Garcia says that's not necessarily so: people who are on the thin, nervous side often pay for their figures with fatigue, depleted mineral stores, moodiness, and an impaired ability to concentrate. On the other hand, more than two-thirds of Americans are slow burners, he says, which means a tendency toward hyperinsulinemia, insomnia, heart disease, diabetes, and other serious health problems.

Even if you suspect you know what kind of burner you are, Garcia will enlighten you with specific foods, supplements, types of exercise, and lifestyle suggestions to try--including tips for eating out--to help improve your metabolism and overall health. Besides avoiding wheat--the dietary evil he says all types should avoid--the program is remarkably flexible and realistic. There's no calorie counting, and if you're at a social event and go off the program for a night, Garcia says so be it. Just hop back on the program as soon as possible afterwards.

In addition to The Balance's aim of bringing about greater energy, relief from PMS, improved resilience to stress, and a decrease in the frequency of mood swings, Garcia says it even boosts concentration and mental functioning, thereby improving relationships and even making therapy sessions more effective. While this may sound farfetched, Garcia's followers swear it's a remarkably effective, life-changing program.

About the Author

Oz Garcia, PhD, one of the world's leading authorities in progressive nutrition and antiaging, is author of The Balance and Look and Feel Fabulous Forever. Twice voted best nutritionist by New York magazine, Oz lectures nationally on progressive nutrition, slowing down the aging process, and bringing people to their highest level of well-being. Dubbed "Nutritionist to the Stars," his international clientele includes Fortune 500 CEOs as well as film, television, and fashion's elite. Oz has been featured in countless print, broadcast, and online media worldwide. He is nutritional advisor at Equinox Fitness Clubs and consultant to the East Coast Alliance of Trainers and to the world-renowned Life Extension Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060987375
• ISBN 13: 9780060987374
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256