The Balance: The Revolutionary Supermetabolism Plan for Maximum Health and Weight-loss - Softcover

Garcia, Oz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843331322 ISBN 13: 9781843331322

Publisher: Chrysalis Books, 2002

Synopsis

When you eat in The Balance, you don't have to worry about counting calories, and you won't feel hungry or deprived. You'll lose weight and keep it off, but that's not the only benefit - you'll have enhanced energy and endurance, improved concentration and mental function and a stronger immune system. This book is based on the concept of individualism - take from it what works best for you. Make gradual changes or jump in with both feet. Try it. You'll be amazed.

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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 is the president of Personal Best, a nutritional counselling firm. He lives and works in New York City. New York magazine names him best nutritionist in 1997 and Harper's Bazaar has listed him as one of the "Top Ten Nutritionists in America".

About this edition

• Publisher: Chrysalis Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1843331322
• ISBN 13: 9781843331322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220