Slow Down Diet

La Dieta del Sosiego es el mejor libro de nutrición que he leído. Gracias a él tengo el gusto de consultar a muchas personas todos los días logrando excelentes resultados, es el complemento perfecto para mi práctica de nutrición. Marc ha hecho un gran trabajo integral sobre el mundo de la comida, el cuerpo y el espíritu. Tan buena me pareció su reflexión sobre estos temas que hice con él su Training en línea, el cual es un curso maravilloso en el que se reflexiona más profundamente sobre temas del libro y otros temas también muy valiosos. Lo recomiendo ampliamente. Lic. en Nut. María Fernanda Rojas Chávez. Hospital Puebla. Puebla, Pue. México.

Years ago, I picked up a book called "The Only Diet There Is." After reading it, I considered it too New Age and outrageous to really help in the battle of the bulge. It dealt specifically with how thoughts and negative emotions were keeping us all fat. It spoke about the pursuit of pleasure, toxic thoughts, forgiving others, ourselves and finally letting go of the obsession with weight. There was no science to it, just a book of affirmations urging us all to change our thoughts/feelings from negative to positive in order to lose the weight. Good book, but seemed so WAAAAY out there that I never fully gave it a chance. Besides the fact that it had no science to back it up. I wanted a program that worked! Well, now we have "The Slow Down Diet." Marc David has confirmed with science all of the above. There are actual studies on how our thoughts chemically change the conditions in our bodies to either make us fat or slim. After reading chapter one and trying to practice just the art of relaxation, I could feel an immediate difference. I knew what was causing all of my overeating episodes. I was unable to relax at any meal. I was still agitated from work, people and life. Trying to slow down showed me how tense I was. I was bringing this attitude to all of my meals. Marc says he rarely meets anyone with an overeating problem. I believe him now. I've struggled for years with hating myself because of physically being unable to stop eating when I was no longer hungry. I thought it was all emotional. I didn't get enough love. I was angry. I wanted to hurt myself. I kept searching and finally found an answer. Within a week of just trying to "Slow Down" people kept asking me if I had lost weight and commenting on how small my face was. It was a revelation!

What Candace Pert does for mind-body medicine, Jon Robison does for holistic health, and Joseph Campbell does for the mythic journey, Marc David does for nutrition. This book's debut in the middle of the quantum physics renaissance seems like no accident. But then, there are no accidents, right? The world is ready for The Slow Down Diet. But this is no diet book. In the era of fad diets and countless books on nutrition advice, weight management and health remain an enigma for thousands, often reaching the point of "I've tried everything and nothing works." We work entirely too hard on controlling the details that would come easily to us, if we just slowed down and paid attention. Praises for this book of ultimate self-care. As a dietitian and nutrition counselor, I recommend it highly to revitalize the intuitive nurturer we all have within ourselves. The common-sense-yet-commonly-lost principles of The Slow Down Diet reflect the essential principles of living-REALLY living an enriched, fulfilled life. Thank you to Marc David for saying what has not been said before. We now have permission to breathe a sigh of relief and taste our food!

Nutritionist and weight loss expert Marc David asserts in THE SLOW DOWN DIET that some of our most dearly held beliefs about weight loss and dieting are woefully misguided. According to David, some of the biggest myths about eating are well-intentioned, yet contribute to ever-increasing girth. Starting with one of the most widely believed myths, "the best way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more," David describes how people who attempt to follow that old advice so often end up frustrated. As David points out, "What you eat is only half the equation of good nutrition. How you eat is the other half." David describes the eight universal metabolizers that have the biggest effect on whether we gain or lose weight: relaxation, quality, awareness, rhythm, pleasure, thought, story, the sacred. We don't overeat because we lack willpower or put our metabolism into starvation mode, but when meals are deficient in one of the eight universal metabolizers. Food eaten in an anxious rush will trigger physiological stress responses that decrease our calorie burning capacity at the same time as we lose the value of the nutrients. At a time when the benefits of meditation are being formally acknowledged, it's refreshing to see a book that cites scientific sources that describe a metabolic power of relaxation. I love the way Marc David includes scientific research studies alongside case histories and exercises. Did you know that your gut has a brain? The enteric nervous system in your body has more nerve cells than your spinal column, at over one hundred million neurons, and it moves through nightly 90 minute cycles as if it were dreaming. Marc David asserts that the amazing differences between French and American food habits and weights are that while the French eat generally fattier foods, they slow down and savor long lunches as the biggest meals of their days... while Americans eat on the run in a constant state of stress. THE SLOW DOWN DIET proposes something that seems almost too good to be true... a way to savor meals and consistently lose weight doing so. By simply being "awake at the plate" and not doing something distracting or stressful while eating, but instead enjoying every moment of your meals... David assures us that we can lose weight.