The Bread for Life Diet: The High-on-Carbs Weight-Loss Plan - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584794631 ISBN 13: 9781584794639

Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2005

Synopsis

Sick of South Beach? Anti Atkins? Desperate for toast with your eggs? Then the Bread for Life Diet is your dream diet. The first new diet to buck the high-protein, low-carb craze, this revolutionary program not only allows you to indulge in the bread you've been denying yourself but actually requires you to: up to 16 slices a day!

Israeli nutritionist Olga Raz developed the diet as a result of her research on serotonin, a chemical that controls the hunger and satiety centers of the brain. While high-protein meals cause serotonin to drop, a bread-based meal raises the serotonin level. Raz also discovered that her diet can correct the chemical imbalances in the body that make it difficult for many people to lose weight. Divided into two meal plans-the first lasts up to two weeks and is designed to promote fast weight loss-the diet is so healthy that it helps reduce cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and alleviate diabetic symptoms.

Thousands of people have already experienced amazing results with the Bread for Life Diet in Israel, where Raz has become a household name and her book a huge best-seller. Now Americans, too, can benefit from this extraordinary new approach to weight loss.

The diet is healthy, nutritionally sound, and proven to work

Includes a wide range of foods: pasta, grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and meat

Simple to follow: no counting calories, carbohydrates, or fat grams

Features easy-to-prepare foods, plus 25 tasty recipes.

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About the Author

Olga Raz is director of nutrition at the Souransky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel's second largest hospital, and the founder and head of the School of Nutrition at the Judea and Samaria College. She is also the author of the overseas best-seller Eating Bread, Getting Slim. She speaks internationally on nutrition, obesity, and weight loss.

Reviews

Bread is back—up to 12 or 16 slices daily in order to lose weight, says Raz, director of the nutrition department at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center. And she doesn't stop there. Pasta? No problem. Brown rice? Bring it on. The premise behind the Bread for Life diet is that consuming carbohydrates raises serotonin levels in the brain, whereas eating protein reduces them. Higher serotonin levels result in feeling full and satisfied, says Raz. When serotonin levels are too low, people tend to remain hungry and crave sweets. Raz argues this is a key reason why high protein diets fail so often. A diet high in nutritious complex carbohydrates, however, reduces cravings for fattening sweets (simple carbohydrates) as well as hunger levels in general, resulting in fewer overall calories consumed. This is especially true if one consumes smaller carbohydrate-based meals every three to four hours throughout the day. While this prescription for shedding pounds isn't necessarily new, it certainly flies in the face of the anti-carb diets dominating today. Raz claims the average weight loss among healthy people on her bread-based program is 10 to 20 pounds in two months. If this is true, Tel Aviv may just become the next South Beach. (Oct.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584794631
• ISBN 13: 9781584794639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240