| According to the American Obesity Association, | | | | leads the dieter to an ongoing diet of 40% |
| an astounding 64.5 percent of adult Americans | | | | protein, 30% carbohydrates, and 30% fat.One |
| (about 127 million) are categorized as obese or | | | | thing that permeates Make Your Diet Work is Dr. |
| overweight. According to the website's statistics, | | | | Smith's firm belief that all weight loss should be |
| obesity causes at least 300,000 excess deaths | | | | healthy weight loss and should occur without |
| and is responsible for 100 million dollars in | | | | inducing Diet Shock. There is NOTHING drastic, |
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| utmost attention.And one would think that with all | | | | medical schools in the world, designed this plan |
| the fad diets and personal weight loss programs | | | | with the reader's overall health in mind, not just |
| promoting quick and easy weight loss that those | | | | producing fast weight loss results.When you |
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| decline. The problem is that Americans are fat. | | | | quickly that this is not just another fad diet |
| And we are getting fatter. Diet after diet comes | | | | program. Far from it. The Five Simple Science |
| along and yet we can't seem to lose the weight | | | | Solutions can be used with the diet of your choice. |
| and keep it off. Is there a solution, finally , to the | | | | So Smith is not trying to decry any diet on the |
| crisis?According to Dr. Michael Smith there is, and | | | | market. Instead, he gives very clear action steps |
| it has to do with focus. Perhaps everyone has | | | | that enable you to modify easily your diet of |
| been attacking the wrong problem.In his ebook | | | | choice, making it safer and far more successful in |
| entitled, How to Make Your Diet Work, Dr. Smith, | | | | the long run.And don't think you're going to have |
| a graduate of UT Southwestern Medical School in | | | | to do lots of study and conversions and |
| Dallas, Texas, believes that the challenge facing | | | | extrapolations to figure out how to do this. Nor |
| the overweight person is not losing weight. | | | | will you need to purchase memberships, special |
| Rather, the problem is in gaining weight. He states | | | | foods, nor additional books. Dr. Smith has included |
| adamantly that for too long we have focused | | | | easy-to-read charts which tell you exactly what |
| research and product development on the "how | | | | you need to do to make your diet work.In |
| to lose weight problem" when we should have | | | | addition, Dr. Smith has included a Diet Mentor, a |
| been focusing on the factors that make people | | | | sort of interactive diet coach. The Diet Mentor |
| gain weight in the first place.According to Dr. | | | | summarizes key principles, reduces some of the |
| Smith, the typical overweight person tries the | | | | more difficult ideas to easy-to-understand action |
| latest fad diet. Most fad dietsl promote quick | | | | steps, easily links back to the main volume by |
| weight loss through an initial, drastic reduction in | | | | simply pointing and clicking on topic you want to |
| calories, carbohydrates, or fat. There is some | | | | review, and provides some encouragement along |
| initial success, but the drastic change in food | | | | the way. The Mentor can be used as a sort of |
| intake causes the body to go into a state that | | | | quick reference help as well.There is another |
| Smith calls Diet Shock.Diet Shock is when the | | | | powerful and user friendly tool Dr. Smith has |
| body has suddenly been deprived of it's usual | | | | developed for you that comes with Make Your |
| intake of food (calories, carbohydrates, etc.) and | | | | Diet Work. Suppose you haven't chosen one of |
| then begins to store energy as fat at a higher | | | | the popular diets or you don't even know where |
| rate to compensate for the loss. In other words, | | | | to begin. Then you can use the step-by-step, |
| the body thinks it is starving, so it goes to work | | | | point and click guide that so easily assists you in |
| to turn what is left as well as future intake into | | | | setting up your own diet plan instead of using one |
| fat so the body won't be lacking.This is what | | | | of the fad diets on the market today. Again, Dr. |
| Smith believes to be the crucial problem. For | | | | Smith has provided you with the tool you |
| example, in a typical fad diet a dieter drastically | | | | need.Just click on whether you want a Three |
| reduces her intake of carbohydrates for two | | | | Week or Five Week initial startup plan. Then you |
| weeks or some period of time . They see initial | | | | will be guided to click on either a low carb, low cal, |
| success by losing a few pounds, but then usually | | | | or low fat plan. Then choose the method of how |
| hit a weight loss barrier. They then give up and go | | | | you will work on establishing a higher metabolic |
| back to their old ways. They then cycle back to | | | | rate. Do you want to use resistance training or a |
| their former weight. Then at some point in the | | | | walking program? You continue to point and click |
| future, they try another diet and repeat the | | | | along these lines until you have set up your own |
| process over and over again.This cycle, often | | | | customized diet plan.And you can rest assured |
| called yo-yo dieting, is not only an ineffective way | | | | that it is a plan that is designed to help you lose |
| to lose weight and keep it off, but it is also | | | | weight, avoid Diet Shock, prevent Weight Regain, |
| hazardous to the health of those who are on and | | | | and do it all in a manner that is safe and |
| off the diets. Unfortunately, the fad diets are | | | | effective.Now, when you purchase and download |
| responsible, albeit unintentionally, for the yo-yo | | | | Make Your Diet Work, you will have to wade |
| dieting which leads to frustration, a sense of | | | | through a minimal amount of scientific jargon. But |
| failure, and continued obesity.Dr. Smith has been | | | | no more that you would normally expect from a |
| working in the field of diet and nutrition for | | | | physician. After all, they aren't always known for |
| several years. He wrote Make Your Diet Work to | | | | their bedside manner. But in my opinion, working |
| reveal a revolutionary way of thinking based on | | | | through these sections that attempt to illustrate |
| his years of interaction with his patients and his | | | | the scientific underpinnings of what Smith is trying |
| research. The main idea of his work is that | | | | to say is more than worth the effort. You don't |
| anyone can lose weight and actually keep it off | | | | have to understand the jargon. All you have to do |
| no matter which diet program you use.In other | | | | is follow the Five Simple Solutions!The only other |
| words, whether you use a low carb, or low cal, or | | | | thing Dr. Smith could have added to Make Your |
| low fat approach, Make Your Diet Work will show | | | | Diet Work is an expanded list of resources for |
| you how to make that diet work for you by | | | | the dieter. Specifically, obese and overweight |
| maximizing the diet's strengths and minimizing its | | | | people who have tried diet after diet could use a |
| weaknesses. He will help you lose weight using the | | | | guide that leads them to different forums and |
| diet you choose, and the principles illustrated in | | | | support groups which are often crucial to long |
| Make Your Diet Work will also help you keep | | | | term weight loss success.But those are minor |
| weight off... for good.Make Your Diet Work | | | | deficiencies in a work that, in my opinion, |
| accomplishes this through what Dr. Smith calls | | | | constitutes a welcome paradigm shift in the way |
| Five Simple Science Solutions. Implement these | | | | we should think about and approach dieting and |
| solutions and use them with the diet of your | | | | the obesity problem. It's not about losing weight. |
| choice, and you will be successful he says. And | | | | It's about a healthy diet and lifestyle that keeps |
| each solution helps prevent weight regain. What | | | | the weight off!Make Your Diet Work is listed at |
| are they?First, to make your diet work and | | | | for $24.99 with a 30-day, money-back-guarantee. |
| prevent weight regain, you must stabilize an | | | | Keep in mind that what the dieter gets includes |
| active metabolic rate. Simply put, Dr. Smith shows | | | | the main volume (which includes sound recordings |
| the dieter how to increase your metabolic rate | | | | throughout by Dr. Smith himself), the Diet Mentor, |
| and as a result increase the rate your body burns | | | | the Diet Planner (which helps you set up your |
| fat.Second, the dieter must sustain a negative | | | | own customized low cal, low carb, or low fat |
| energy balance. This solution gives the dieter | | | | plan), and two other ebooks which are definitely |
| ways to create and sustain a negative energy | | | | must reads.One, entitled Diet Deception, deals with |
| balance. Weight regain will occur as long as you | | | | deceptive internet marketing in the health, diet, |
| have a positive energy balance (when you aren't | | | | fitness, and nutrition world. The other ebook, |
| burning more calories than you are taking in).The | | | | entitled Double Down, gives the reader concrete |
| third solution attacks the problem of false or faux | | | | and specific ways to develop better and more |
| weight loss. Most diets today lead to your body | | | | consistent sleep patterns which will exponentially |
| burning more protein (muscle) than fat. So those | | | | improve your chances of losing weight and |
| initial pounds that come off do not constitute | | | | keeping it off.In addition the buyer will get the |
| healthy weight loss. You are losing muscle and not | | | | benefit of future upgrades and additions, as well |
| fat (or perhaps volume depletion is occurring). In | | | | as a year's worth of Medical Alerts and Cooking |
| any event losing muscle is unhealthy. This solution | | | | and Recipe tips sent directly to his or her email |
| will help you sustain and even increase your | | | | inbox each week.As always, consult your |
| muscle mass while burning fat.Fourth, Dr. Smith | | | | physician before beginning any diet program. If |
| effectively and succinctly attacks the problem of | | | | you or someone you know needs to get serious |
| food cravings. He asserts that people do not fail | | | | about losing weight, I unreservedly recommend |
| diets because they do not lose weight. They fail | | | | Make Your Diet Work. Dieting will never be the |
| diets because they regain the weight they lost. By | | | | same again, and I am glad!Mark A. Fuqua |
| curbing cravings, especially those that occur in the | | | | |
| middle of the day, a major contributing factor in | | | | With 3 earned degrees and more than 16 years |
| weight regain has it's legs cut out from | | | | of experience as spiritual leader, pastor, director |
| underneath it and is rendered ineffective.Lastly, | | | | of marketing and investment banker, Mark Fuqua |
| the fifth solution gives the dieter the know how | | | | brings to the discussion table a breadth and depth |
| to implement a weight maintenance program. | | | | of unique experience coupled with academic |
| Without a weight maintenance plan, which is | | | | acumen. He is Consultant and Chief Editor of Diet |
| where most diets fail according to Dr. Smith, the | | | | Basics, a website dedicated to healthy weight loss |
| dieter will not keep the weight off. Solution five | | | | success. |