The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat well. Enjoy life. Lose weight.
From Mayo Clinic, a leading authority on health and nutrition, comes The Mayo Clinic Diet, designed to be the last diet you'll ever need. In two simple phases, you'll be on the road to a healthy weight for the rest of your life. Packed with lots of extra encouragement—meal planners, recipes, tips for overcoming challenges, starting an exercise plan, and much more—The Mayo Clinic Diet gives you everything you need in one book. Toss out the scales and calculators and pick up the foods you love. This is the diet you've been waiting for!
Doctor Oz Review
“The Mayo Clinic Diet” is subtitled “Eat Well. Enjoy Life. Lose Weight.” The point of the book? The editor-in-chief observes that (Page 6): “’The Mayo Clinic Diet’ isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Using clinically tested techniques, it puts you in charge of reshaping you lifestyle by adopting healthy new habits and breaking unhealthy old ones.”
Part 1 is titled “Lose it!” Here, by following a number of rules, you would lose six to ten pounds in two weeks. What to do? Add five positive habits (e.g., eat a healthy breakfast, eat four or more servings of vegetables and three or more of fruits, eat whole grains, eat healthy foods such as olive oil and nuts, exercise 30 minutes or more per day). Then, break five bad habits (e.g., no TV while eating, stay away from sugar no snacks except fruits and vegetables, have small helpings of meat [the size of a deck of cards:], no eating at restaurants,). Next hint? Adopt five bonus points (e.g., keep food records, keep activity records, exercise even more than 30 minutes per day, eat food is a natural state or only lightly processed food).
Part 2 is called “Live It!), involving setting goals, eating to the pyramid, and burning calories by being active. Some nice features include a quick guide to serving size (page 73). For instance, one 3erving of broccoli (25 calories) would be about the size of a baseball, whereas a serving of whole-wheat bread would be about the size of a hockey puck. Being active? Page 96 gives hints about enhancing activity level. At an airport, take a walk around the terminal. At work? Take the stairs and not the elevator.
Part 3 is “All the Extra Stuff.” More detail on the food pyramid, understanding plateaus that occur when trying to lose weight, and hints about cooking. There is a listing of foods to stock up on (page 159), such as whole grains, fruits and veggies, protein sources (beans, tuna, skinless white meat poultry , fish with omega-3s), and dairy (low fat products). There are also menu ideas and cooking suggestions.
Part 1 is titled “Lose it!” Here, by following a number of rules, you would lose six to ten pounds in two weeks. What to do? Add five positive habits (e.g., eat a healthy breakfast, eat four or more servings of vegetables and three or more of fruits, eat whole grains, eat healthy foods such as olive oil and nuts, exercise 30 minutes or more per day). Then, break five bad habits (e.g., no TV while eating, stay away from sugar no snacks except fruits and vegetables, have small helpings of meat [the size of a deck of cards:], no eating at restaurants,). Next hint? Adopt five bonus points (e.g., keep food records, keep activity records, exercise even more than 30 minutes per day, eat food is a natural state or only lightly processed food).
Part 2 is called “Live It!), involving setting goals, eating to the pyramid, and burning calories by being active. Some nice features include a quick guide to serving size (page 73). For instance, one 3erving of broccoli (25 calories) would be about the size of a baseball, whereas a serving of whole-wheat bread would be about the size of a hockey puck. Being active? Page 96 gives hints about enhancing activity level. At an airport, take a walk around the terminal. At work? Take the stairs and not the elevator.
Part 3 is “All the Extra Stuff.” More detail on the food pyramid, understanding plateaus that occur when trying to lose weight, and hints about cooking. There is a listing of foods to stock up on (page 159), such as whole grains, fruits and veggies, protein sources (beans, tuna, skinless white meat poultry , fish with omega-3s), and dairy (low fat products). There are also menu ideas and cooking suggestions.
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