Easy and Healthy Japanese Food for the American Kitchen or Gary Nulls Ultimate Lifetime Diet

Easy and Healthy Japanese Food for the American Kitchen

Author: Keiko O Aoki

Easy & Healthy Japanese Food for the American Kitchen combines easy-to-use cooking techniques with traditional Japanese cuisine. Author Keiko Aoki balances the delicate flavors of Japanese cuisine with ingredients and equipment found in the average American kitchen. These quick-to-prepare recipes are designed to accommodate the hectic and busy lifestyles most Americans endure. A sure-to-please cookbook for all enthusiasts of Japanese food, as well as those looking to prepare healthier meals for their families.

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Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body

Author: Gary Null

Slim down the natural way! America's leading health expert offers a revolutionary, proven program to help you shed those unwanted pounds--forever.

Grapefruit, hormones, blood types, protein. With so many of today's trendy diets being hailed as the weight-loss solution, it's hard to know what really does work, let alone what's actually good for you. But what if there was a simple, enjoyable way to lose weight without eliminating food groups or counting calories—one that not only melted away the pounds but dramatically improved other aspects of your life as well?

Leading natural health expert Gary Null has devoted his life to helping people feel better about their bodies, and in this ground-breaking new book he presents a surefire plan to help you lose weight—and keep it off. Based on Null's research with over a thousand volunteers and more than twenty-five years as a health educator, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet explores the science behind weight gain and provides and easy-to-follow weight-loss regimen based on nutrition, exercise and holistic therapies. Complete with a 31-day eating plan packed with delicious, all-natural, low-fat recipes that can be tailored to your individual needs, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet shows you how to jump-start your metabolism and develop healthier, lifelong eating habits. You will learn how to:

• Listen to your body and determine your unique dietary needs
• Use detoxification as the key to weight-loss success—safely and effectively
• Reduce with juice and blend a variety of slimming, health-enhancing beverages
• Use the 125 recipes in the eating plan to prepare appetizing, slenderizing dishes—from breakfast to dessert
• Choose vitamins and supplements that will boost your weight-loss efforts
• Develop a personalized exercise regimen—and stick with it
• Use stress management and self-actualization techniques to set personal goals, improve your body image, and stay positive and energized

Best of all, with Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet the inches and pounds you lose are secondary to what you gain: a lifetime of confidence, happiness, good eating and good health.

Publishers Weekly

In Part One of his new book, talk-show host Null (Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program) explains in lengthy detail what he considers to be the negative effects of many diets, including hormonal imbalances and eating disorders. Although some readers will find this amount of information helpful, others may become discouraged by the lengthy explanations and clinical terminology used. In Part Two, Null offers his solution, which combines behavior modification, "detoxifying" one's system with specific foods and liquids instead of dieting and pages of recipes that support a healthier lifestyle. The honest and realistic success stories in Part Three are likely to inspire the reader to take Null's advice. Ultimately, Null asks readers to analyze their relationship to food (whether eating masks depression and anxiety, for example). The extensive appendixes--profiling foods, chemicals and medical terms--are a very helpful reference. Readers already familiar with alternative medicine and/or holistic living will benefit from Null's vision, but, due to its size, the book may overwhelm those addressing their diet and weight issues alone or for the first time. One Spirit BOMC selection. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Beth Amos

January 2000

Nearly 100 million adults in this country are overweight, and most of them are in search of the Holy Grail of permanent weight loss. Current fads focus on cutting fats, carbohydrates, or calories. Some involve taking pills, or eating and drinking all sorts of diet supplements. A few who try these diets are successful, but judging from the growing incidence of obesity in this country, that success is the exception rather than the rule and often only temporary. All too often, those lost pounds find their way back home again.

Now, Gary Null, Ph.D., the author of more than 50 books on healing, diet, and anti-aging techniques, as well as the host of a nationally syndicated health radio show called "Natural Living with Gary Null," has developed a natural, long-term solution to weight loss. He documents his program in his new book, Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet. Despite the word "diet" in the title, Null's program is less of a diet than it is a lifestyle -- there is no plan of deprivation and no calorie counter. Rather, it is an integrative and holistic approach that addresses both physical and mental well-being. Null developed the program after reviewing the combined results of several studies he conducted -- studies that focused on how diet, detoxification, exercise, supplements, and mental health influence the ability to lose weight and keep it off. After combining his findings with current scientific knowledge about the causes and effects of obesity and the intricacies of the human body, Null came up with a long-term plan for weight loss that he calls a "body and mind clean-up and refueling program."

Null's advice is basic, simple, and sound. What makes it unique is his combination of elements, beginning with a program of behavior modification designed to alter established (and often damaging) eating habits. There is the prerequisite exercise component, but the "diet" differs in that it focuses less on calorie and fat counts than on the use of organic foods, with strict avoidance of "bad" fats, sugar, processed carbohydrates, and animal proteins, which often contain hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and other toxins. In conjunction, Null also advocates a detoxification process to rid the body of harmful toxins and potential allergens. According to Null, combining these elements and adhering to his program can result in weight loss even in the face of an increased intake of food.

While, on the surface, Null's program may sound complicated and time-consuming, and not all that different from other diet programs, it is different. The holistic approach and multifaceted focus make it an all-natural program that can easily be adopted as a permanent lifestyle, thereby avoiding the dreaded yo-yo dieting syndrome. And while the program may be more complex than some, Null has taken much of the work out of the process by providing detailed lists, tons of information, and step-by-step processes in his book. There are lists of "good" foods and "bad" foods, such as carbohydrates with a low glycemic index (meaning they digest more slowly and therefore don't cause hunger-inducing rises in blood sugar levels), and detailed detoxification programs for both beginners and those more experienced.

Null explains how to go about identifying possible allergens so they can be eliminated, how to avoid what he calls "dead" foods (processed foods that have been stripped of all their natural nutrient value), and suggests healthy organic foods such as fruits, legumes, and vegetables, including sea vegetables. The book also has nearly 100 pages of recipes and meal plans, everything from breakfast to dinner, from main dishes to dessert. One entire chapter explores various nutrients and vitamins, providing an overview of how each one benefits the body and how some can enhance the ability to lose weight. There is a step-by-step process for developing a personalized exercise program with point-by-point information on the benefits and limitations of various forms of exercise.

Null also offers ideas on how to detoxify one's environment, such as with the use of air and water filters, the removal of dust-collecting wall-to-wall carpeting, and the use of natural cleaning products such as baking soda and vinegar. And probably the most unique advice Null provides is how to work on detoxifying one's relationships. It is this emphasis on total well-being -- both mental and physical -- that makes Null's stand out from all the rest.

Null doesn't merely tell readers to follow his program; he walks them through the process step by step, offering sound research to explain why each step is important. He opens the book by first taking a long, hard look at the problem of obesity, providing current statistics and listing the many deleterious effects excess weight has on overall vitality, life expectancy, and general health. He then provides an overview of the primary diseases and disorders that are related to, caused by, or exacerbated by obesity, including the usual suspects like heart disease, stress, osteoarthritis, diabetes, and certain types of cancer. Then he examines our culture's attitude toward obesity, focusing on the stigma so often applied to those who are overweight and how that affects the mental health of the obese.

Null then takes a hard look at the causes of obesity, examining everything from our cultural tendency toward conspicuous consumption and fat-filled fast foods to the emotional tie-ins many associate with food. He dissects some of the most popular diet plans, such as the no-fat diet and the high-protein diet, and provides clear, logical, and scientifically supported explanations for why they inevitably fail and may, in fact, do more damage than good. He looks at the effects allergies can have on weight gain and weight loss and provides some fascinating case studies to back up his claims. There is a chapter devoted to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, and a chapter that discusses the ills of diet pills, including the latest development -- drugs that block the absorption of fat.

Gary Nulls Ultimate Lifetime Diet is more than just a diet book. It's a valuable resource chock full of information and facts. In fact, Null.s overview of the many aspects of obesity in this country is one of the most comprehensive to be found anywhere. For those who are sincere about losing weight and changing their lifestyle to live healthier, longer, and more happily, this is the most sensible and comprehensive plan to come down the pike in ages.

--Beth Amos

Beth Amos, R.N., spent 20 years working as a nurse in various medical settings before becoming a novelist and medical freelance writer. She has authored more than 100 articles in medical and lay journals around the country.