Your Body, Your Diet: A Complete Program for Losing Weight, Boosting Energy, and Being Your Best Self - Hardcover

Dane Ph.D., Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034543322X ISBN 13: 9780345433220

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2001

Synopsis

Dr.Elizabeth Dane's 40 years of research and clinical practice have enabled her to help countless people achieve physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony and, in the process, make them healthier, happier and more productive individuals.

Dr. Dane's published book, Your Body, Your Diet was the first published tool from her comprehensive healing program, "Your Body, Your Life", which is the culmination of her life's work.

Dr. Dane's unique program is the first plan that is founded on the combination of both Western science and Eastern medicine. Through Your Body, Your Life Program and Your Body, Your Diet book, Dr. Dane helps her patients address issues of a wide variety of health needs and difficult problems, such as chronic fatigue, severe allergies, arthritis, diabetes, and infertility, as well as diet, nutrition, fitness, weight-loss and stress management.

In private practice since 1976 in New York, California, Virginia and Florida, Dr. Dane has earned a reputation as one of today's foremost practitioners of holistic medicine. Her notable clients includ a wide vareity of world-renowned individuals, including facmous actors, writers and musicians, such as Angelica Huston, Al Pacino, and James Taylor.

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About the Author

Dr. Elizabeth Dane is a practitioner of alternative and holistic medicine. She has a Ph.D. in Eastern Medicine and Philosophy and has worked as a practitioner for 40 decades with people from all walks of life. Among her celebrity clients are Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, Jay McInerney, Anjelica Huston, James Taylor, Al  Pacino and Mercedes Ellington.

Because of her own frustrating and unsatisfactory experiences with Western medicine in her early twenties, Dr. Dane turned to natural foods, supplements, and some alternative health protocols, finally becoming a nutritional practitioner. Still not findidng all the answers she was looking for, Dr. Dane turned toward Eastern medicine. She eventually earned degrees as an O.M.D. (Oriental Medical Doctor) and Ph.D. in eastern Medicine and Philosophy. She states, "I've always stayed out of the limelight because my journey has been for my own regeneration. Now, after so many years of seeing the transformation in myself and those transformations of people in my private practice, I feel the time is right to share my training, research, and unique approach to healing with many others."

 Dr. Dane has formulated an approach in which she draws on the best that Eastern medicine has to offer; but she does not dismiss the value of mainstream Western medicine and science. She merges her knowledge of both traditions in her protocol, frequently working in tandem with Western medical doctors to achieve a patient's best health and healing.

"I want everyone to have full access to all the information they need to attain and maintain their optimum health, and flourish to their potential as unique beings," says Dr. Dane

From the Back Cover

"On Dr. Dane's diet plan, I lost the first ten pounds very quickly, then the next ten began to come off. But it wasn't just the weight-I was sleeping better, I had more energy, and I had a much easier time recovering from jet lag. My skin got better-even my eyes sparkled. The results were dramatic."
-ANN REINKING

"Not only did I feel unburdened of my many sorrows but something physically was happening to me. . . . My skin never looked better, and my spirits began to soar. Elizabeth is part witch, great humanitarian, and doctor."
-ANJELICA HUSTON

"I feel like a brand-new being after being on Elizabeth's program. Sparkle Plenty."
-BEBE NEUWIRTH

"Working with Elizabeth has given me an 'oasis' in a hectic and busy life. She has helped me focus on the synergy of my physical, mental, and spiritual selves. I am growing!" - ADRIANA TRIGIANI, award-winning filmmaker and author of Big Stone Gap

"God bless Dr. Dane. At last someone smart and caring enough to combine the best of Eastern and Western medicine....It will become the health bible for all who read it!" - MICHAEL KENNEDY, trial lawyer

"Being with Elizabeth Dane and implementing her program for my individual needs helped carry me through the next phase of my life....Without her program, I would have never been able to have the physical and mental stamina to carry through on preparing for my new Broadway show!" - MERCEDES ELLINGTON, choreographer, director, and producer

From the Inside Flap

Elizabeth Dane has helped hundreds of people control their weight and lead healthier, calmer, more rewarding lives. Now it's your turn! With Dr. Dane's breakthrough new book, you can finally look and feel exactly the way you want . . . and restore and rejuvenate your body and spirit at the same time!

Why does the diet that works wonders for your best friend fail miserably when you try it? The answer, says Dr. Dane, is metabolic type. Our metabolic types determine not only the rate at which we burn calories but also our cravings for particular foods, our changing energy levels throughout the day, the amount of rest and exercise we need, even our personalities. It stands to reason that if you follow a diet that is not tailored to your own meta type, it simply won't work no matter how conscientiously you follow the routine.

In a program that is anything but routine, Dr. Dane combines the wisdom of ancient Eastern medicine with the latest findings of Western medical science to create a weight loss and lifestyle strategy exclusively for you. This remarkable book includes a detailed, step-by-step, 28-day guide to your personal renewal, including:

*How to determine your meta type and start on your new life today
*Why you crave the foods that are most damaging to your body; how to wean yourself off them
*Weekly shopping lists and menu plans that make your diet regimen a breeze
*Why the combination of foods is as essential as the amount of food you eat
*How to maximize your nutrients and burn off fat through correct food preparation techniques (for example, never fry foods)
*How to use vitamins, supplements, and elixirs to boost your body's cell-renewing potential
*How natural stress busters like essential oils can ease and hasten weight loss
*An exercise program for your meta type that will condition, strengthen, and sculpt your body

Give yourself the body and the life you have always wanted. Far more than just a weight-loss program, Your Body, Your Diet is a detailed road map to a healthier, more vibrant, more energetic you!

Reviews

A diet doctor to such celebrities as Bebe Neuwirth and Anjelica Huston (and foreword writer Ann Reinking), Dane serves up a customized weight-loss plan for each of six metabolic types. Readers first complete a detailed questionnaire on their habits and preferences, which renders their types: the "synthesizer," for instance, is allowed a higher protein intake, while the more energetic "accelerator" may focus on carbs. She encourages aromatherapy, massage and exercise across the board, a holistic approach backed by Chinese medicine, in which Dane has a doctorate. Even though Dane claims that in a mere month followers will look and feel "like a million dollars," readers looking for a quick fix won't find one here: a slimming "synthesizer" tea, for example, includes no less than 22 separate ingredients, ranging from alisma to fennel fruit. Such methods are unlikely to work for readers without time on their hands. Still, the book's tone is friendly and encouraging, and dedicated dieters may find the metabolically oriented strategy gives them further insight into their needs. (On-sale date: July

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Dane, whose doctorate is in Chinese medicine and philosophy, posits that one's metabolic type, which ranges from strongly yin-based to strongly yang-based with several combinations on the continuum in between, determines the best weight-loss strategy for each type. The science/philosophy behind her argument is explained in jargon that sounds impressive but means little. The specific foods that are allowed, in whatever combinations, are so limited that no one could help losing weight, which Dane acknowledges by insisting that supplements (for sale by the author) are necessary, along with aromatherapy and herbal teas (ditto). Dane's diet, for example, includes "uncooked popcorn, with no oil or salt," hardly appetizing but probably effective for weight loss! She also recommends exercises combinations of yoga, t'ai chi, ballet, and other range-of-motion and stretching movements for each type. There are the usual celebrity endorsements from Ann Reinking and others. While it may be popular with New Agers, this is virtually useless as a sustainable diet plan. Not recommended. Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH
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Becoming a Great New You

What’s your fantasy?

Would you like to achieve your best weight and maintain it indefinitely with a diet and exercise regimen designed specifically for your body and your needs?

To do it all without horrible hunger pangs or killer cravings?

To protect yourself against the ravages of stress, aging, and disease—and learn exactly how not to get sick?

To maintain optimal energy and wellness for a lifetime—and never look your age?

To develop remarkable healing powers over your body, mind, emotions, and spirit (which is, of course, the key to it all)?

If you answer “yes” to even one of these questions, then my specialized weight-loss and regeneration program can help you turn your goals into reality. I’m Elizabeth Dane, O.M.D. and Ph.D. I’m a nutritionist and spe- cialist in Eastern medicine who has learned, through years of experience solving my own health and weight problems and those of countless clients, that my unique plan can produce great results for anyone.

How can I be so sure? I’m not dealing in magic potions or secret elixirs. The Your Body, Your Diet system is based on a special recipe for success that I’ve developed. I’ve bridged two worlds, combining the concepts that have guided practitioners of Chinese medicine for thousands of years with the latest findings of Western medical science to create a weight-loss lifestyle strategy that is personalized for you. Just as we’ve learned that yoga and aerobics are both valuable, so is this East-West metabolic blend.

That’s the key to it all—your metabolism. It’s not just burning or storing fat. It’s how you use it for quick bursts of energy and strength and how you calm, restore, and rejuvenate yourself to handle stress, avoid burnout or depression, and slow the aging process. Remember that playground seesaw? Balance is the name of the game here as well.

I’ll show you how your cravings are the symptom, not the source, of your problem. How opposites really do attract. Why the very foods you’ve looked on as “comfort foods”—whether bread, cookies, or even lean steak or turkey—are likely to be most damaging to your body’s unique metabolic needs. You’ll see why, given your type, certain foods could even be causing unwanted facial hair or coarse skin. And you’ll learn how your metabolic balance can affect your emotional health as well.

There are also some quick fixes. Find out how fresh juices, lemons, cranberries, and a blend of Eastern medicine’s herbs and teas, along with a customized blend of vitamins and supplements, can jump-start your metabolic makeover. They will help you keep on track as you shed the sugar and caffeine and eat your way back to a balanced body. There are even “cheat” items for your special metabolism that can help you get through the tough times without tumbling off the wagon.

So forget calorie counting. It’s not just your waistline or hips at stake here; it’s the glow of your skin, the gleam in your eyes, the zest for living and loving. As you read this chapter, you will see that there’s a great deal more to how and why your body holds on to those extra pounds than the fact that you can’t keep your hands off your favorite snacks and desserts. But first, let me introduce you to one of my clients—Vicky. Her story will give you a firsthand look at why a tailor-made weight-loss plan, based on these ideas, can be so successful.

Vicky, forty-two, is a dynamic account executive at a major New York–based advertising agency, and she is great at her job. All her life she’s had boundless energy and could eat practically anything she wanted without gaining a pound. She could also guzzle countless cups of coffee without getting wired and was also the only person in her office who never got the flu. Vicky came to me when her body began to change. She thought it might have been job pressure or the stress of juggling her career with being a wife and mom. Perhaps it was even her age.

Whatever the reasons, Vicky had begun catching bad colds all the time and feeling constantly exhausted and edgy. And even though she swore she was not necessarily eating more, she was putting on weight around her middle. With the specter of middle age looming, she decided to take action. She worked out five days a week at the gym with a personal trainer and religiously followed a popular low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet plan. But neither the exercise nor the weight-loss program made much of a difference. Then she really got frustrated because she and a coworker, Amanda, had embarked on the plan together, and Amanda was losing tons of weight.

Amanda, thirty-five, is a copywriter at the agency where Vicky works. The even bigger surprise is that Amanda was the type of person who constantly complained of being exhausted and depressed, and she was living with the fact that anything she ate (too often starches and sweets) landed directly on her hips and thighs. After trying an exercise regimen and the low-carbohydrate, high-protein plan (which cuts out virtually all starches and sweets), she’s got more energy, she’s in better spirits, and for six months she has kept off the twenty pounds she lost with minimal effort. For the first time she has no cause to complain about her ever-expanding hips and thighs.

Two women, one weight-loss plan. For one the low-carbohydrate, high-protein plan has been a major-league disappointment. For the other it’s been virtually a miracle. How can we account for this mysterious disparity? It’s no mystery—it’s metabolism.

What works for Amanda doesn’t work for Vicky because they are different metabolic types: Vicky has a classic fast metabolism. She’s what I call an accelerator. Amanda, however, has a classic slow metabolism. She’s a synthesizer.

Think about it. Two different metabolic types with one diet program just doesn’t compute. The last thing accelerator Vicky’s high-acid system needs is protein, whereas it’s precisely what synthesizer Amanda’s high- alkaline system must have to jump-start it back to balance.

Vicky’s system requires a high-carbohydrate diet program to get her to where she wants to be. Amanda, on the other hand, could eat a high- carbohydrate diet forever and still not see results. In fact, it’s a matter of apples (the basic shape of the overweight accelerator’s body) and avocados (the basic shape of the overweight synthesizer’s body).

The idea behind my Your Body, Your Diet system is to help you determine whether you’re basically an accelerator or a synthesizer—or one of the variations of these two basic types—and provide you with a weight-loss program designed specifically for your metabolism. The key to the plan is that it has a special place for every metabolic type. Overweight: Problem or Symptom?

How important is metabolism when it comes to weight and health? It’s critical—which is why being overweight is just one symptom that tells you that your metabolic system is out of balance. Understanding your personal metabolic equation and working to balance it is what makes the Your Body, Your Diet plan so effective and unique.

Simply put, the low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet approach to weight loss is based solely on Western medical philosophy and limits its weight-loss regimen to the body. The entire concept is: if you’re overweight, you’re eating too many carbohydrates—period. If, however, you take a broader view of how the body works and include the principles of Eastern medicine—as I do in my work—you will discover that maintaining your optimum weight and achieving general well-being mean focusing on emotional and psychological concerns as well. Your body, mind, feelings, and belief systems all work together.

To Eastern-oriented physicians, overweight is not merely a hormonal or physical matter, since emotions and thought patterns are involved. It’s not just psychological either. Our genetic predisposition is too strong to make it only an addiction. Finally, overweight can’t be looked at as simply a situational problem (the “underloved, overfed” theory). It is a strong brew of physical (genetic), emotional, and spiritual elements.

So forget about your guilt and remorse. Controlling your weight is not just a matter of lack of self-control; it’s a complex problem, which can be solved with surprising ease if you just learn to work with your mind and body. Weight problems reflect mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical imbalance and are magnified by stress.

All four of these aspects must be addressed, balanced, and nurtured for you to shed pounds while dealing with the additional pressures that customarily accompany dieting. That’s why my unique plan is not only a chance to lose weight; it’s an opportunity to achieve a happier and healthier body, mind, and spirit. Best of all, your body will work with you, not against you. That’s because the body’s most powerful drive is for regeneration—and this cell renewal, undoing the damage, is one of the important benefits you get from my Your Body, Your Diet approach.

Now even if you ate perfectly—all fresh foods, balanced for your metabolic requirements—you would still need help, especially when getting started on your new lifestyle and coping with new stresses. That’s where vitamins and supplements come in. They provide a way to ensure that you have all the essentials for your body’s chemistry as it boosts the fat-burning, cell-renewing campaign. Once you’re in balance, you may not need that help on a daily basis. It’s all designed to keep you in harmony as you rebuild a happier, thinner, more energetic self.

Your Body, Your Diet is the result of my exp...

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034543322X
• ISBN 13: 9780345433220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512