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The Coconut Diet : The Secret Ingredient for Effortless Weight Loss
Supercharge your metabolism by adding coconut oil to your diet -- the weight simply drops off. Get the right good fat--low carb balance with this easy 21-day plan and discover the latest research into this miracle new food. Includes a great 4-week cleansing plan. New research shows that coconut oil not only boosts your metabolism and speeds up weight loss, but it also has a myriad of health benefits. Ever since an article in one US magazine mentioned the weight-loss benefits of coconut oil the demand has soared and thousands of people are including a small amount of oil in their diets. ncludes: - how to follow the 21-day plan - why coconut oil raises your metabolic rate - how it helps encourage the production of anti-ageing hormones - how it enhances thyroid function - a 4-week cleansing plan to further boost your energy and health - menu plans and recipes
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352 pages, Paperback
First published January 4, 2005
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About the author
Cherie Calbom
60 books13 followers Cherie Calbom, MS, is the author of The Juice Lady’s Turbo Diet, The Juice Lady’s Living Foods Revolution, and Juicing for Life, which has nearly two million books in print in the United States. Known as “The Juice Lady” for her work with juicing and health, Cherie has taped HealthWatch for CNN and scores of TV and radio shows and has appeared in Shape, First for Women, Women’s World, Men’s Journal, Vogue, Quick & Simple, Marie Claire, and Elle Canada. Cherie earned a master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University, where she now serves on the Board of Regents, and has practiced as a clinical nutritionist at St. Luke Medical Center in Bellevue, Washington.
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September 4, 2010
My nutritionist challenges this with saying the coconut oil is not necessary, so I'm not sure what to think?
I could tell I felt better using it, and I would like to continue to see if I have some results!
Very hard to stay entirely off of carbs for three weeks, especially with a family, and being head cook, and two men who have high metabolisms and need to eat! Difficult to plan two separate meals every evening. So I have just tried to go back to less carbs.
I definitely like the recipes, and the cleanses are a great thing, so I will be trying those...
Overall, this book had some great info, and I would not at all disregard the research within on coconut oil. My nutritionist may just not be up on it, we didn't get into any discussion on it.
I could tell I felt better using it, and I would like to continue to see if I have some results!
Very hard to stay entirely off of carbs for three weeks, especially with a family, and being head cook, and two men who have high metabolisms and need to eat! Difficult to plan two separate meals every evening. So I have just tried to go back to less carbs.
I definitely like the recipes, and the cleanses are a great thing, so I will be trying those...
Overall, this book had some great info, and I would not at all disregard the research within on coconut oil. My nutritionist may just not be up on it, we didn't get into any discussion on it.
May 20, 2011
This book has a lot of very helpful information in it. Not only does it explain the ways different foods work with your body, it gives potential solutions for eating better for specific health problems. The chapter of the book that was most helpful to me was the one on thyroid function. Since I am currently on thyroid medication, it's good to see that I can eat more of certain foods and cut out specific foods in order to enhance my thyroid function.
This book has chapters on organ cleanses and how to do them, and it has many delicious looking recipes.
This book has chapters on organ cleanses and how to do them, and it has many delicious looking recipes.
March 10, 2012
This is by far one of the better diet books out there as it has a real focus on maintaining and improving health, and is not any type of fad diet or quick fix weight loss diet.
This book does not ask you to choose between weight loss and improving health, which is as it should be.
The sections on blood sugar problems, juicing, thyroid issues, and Candida were well done and there is also some useful information included on detoxification methods such as colon, liver, kidney and gallbladder cleanses.
It is wonderful to read a book on diet by an author that is well read enough not to be fat phobic and that understands that a high carb diet is not suited to many of us and has negative health consequences and can cause weight gain.
The book focuses on coconut oil and recommends the use of this one coconut product rather than also including coconut cream or milk, or coconut flakes, it should be noted.
If I had to choose between them, I'd have to go with Mary Fallon's brilliant book Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats hands down, but this book is still very good. Both books advocate a whole foods diet and the liberal use of 2 - 3 tablespoons of coconut oil daily for reasons of weight loss and good health, but Fallons book has a special diet section aimed exclusively at very ill people, which I found very helpful. I also found Fallon's recipe section far better than Calbom's. I liked the look of half a dozen of Calbom's recipes, but perhaps even two dozen or so of Fallon's.
(One other quibble: I wish that all the comments about 'CFS' in this book (and almost every book on diet and health, it must be said!) could have been omitted, as every diagnosis of 'CFS' is a misdiagnosis and talking about 'CFS' as if it has a distinct cause and reaction to treatment is unhelpful and potentially harmful to patients who need instead to be given correct diagnoses and treatments appropriate to whichever of any number of hundreds of different diseases they actually have. See Dr Hyde's book Missed Diagnoses Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Second Edition for more information on this issue.)
Having said that, this book is still very good overall and I would recommend it.
Saturated fat sounds scary and gluggy and is often described as 'artery clogging' and 'not heart healthy' but the truth is very different. Saturated fat isn't saturated by some sort of horrific 'glop' but by hydrogen! The same element that is in water.
Saturated fats such as coconut oil are an important part of a healthy diet. We need to eat them to be healthy. Don't believe all the saturated fat hype!
If you'd like more information on why coconut oil is good for you, why the saturated fat/cholesterol = heart disease hypothesis is utterly dead scientifically speaking, and why a low fat, high carb and low calorie diet is not the best path to maintaining health or a healthy weight, see books such as Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage), Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol, Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats plus The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It.
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
This book does not ask you to choose between weight loss and improving health, which is as it should be.
The sections on blood sugar problems, juicing, thyroid issues, and Candida were well done and there is also some useful information included on detoxification methods such as colon, liver, kidney and gallbladder cleanses.
It is wonderful to read a book on diet by an author that is well read enough not to be fat phobic and that understands that a high carb diet is not suited to many of us and has negative health consequences and can cause weight gain.
The book focuses on coconut oil and recommends the use of this one coconut product rather than also including coconut cream or milk, or coconut flakes, it should be noted.
If I had to choose between them, I'd have to go with Mary Fallon's brilliant book Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats hands down, but this book is still very good. Both books advocate a whole foods diet and the liberal use of 2 - 3 tablespoons of coconut oil daily for reasons of weight loss and good health, but Fallons book has a special diet section aimed exclusively at very ill people, which I found very helpful. I also found Fallon's recipe section far better than Calbom's. I liked the look of half a dozen of Calbom's recipes, but perhaps even two dozen or so of Fallon's.
(One other quibble: I wish that all the comments about 'CFS' in this book (and almost every book on diet and health, it must be said!) could have been omitted, as every diagnosis of 'CFS' is a misdiagnosis and talking about 'CFS' as if it has a distinct cause and reaction to treatment is unhelpful and potentially harmful to patients who need instead to be given correct diagnoses and treatments appropriate to whichever of any number of hundreds of different diseases they actually have. See Dr Hyde's book Missed Diagnoses Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Second Edition for more information on this issue.)
Having said that, this book is still very good overall and I would recommend it.
Saturated fat sounds scary and gluggy and is often described as 'artery clogging' and 'not heart healthy' but the truth is very different. Saturated fat isn't saturated by some sort of horrific 'glop' but by hydrogen! The same element that is in water.
Saturated fats such as coconut oil are an important part of a healthy diet. We need to eat them to be healthy. Don't believe all the saturated fat hype!
If you'd like more information on why coconut oil is good for you, why the saturated fat/cholesterol = heart disease hypothesis is utterly dead scientifically speaking, and why a low fat, high carb and low calorie diet is not the best path to maintaining health or a healthy weight, see books such as Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage), Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol, Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats plus The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It.
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
September 19, 2011
Really interesting, especially the thyroid section!!
February 25, 2011
Interesting book on the affects of virgin coconut oil on the body.
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