The Basic Science of Weight Loss: A Handbook for Daily Health

By Lance Eric

The Basic Science of Weight Loss offers a companion to our daily life for health and nutritional understanding. In the form of a hand-book with quick reference to the most important information about dietary choices and healthy well-being, the aim is to simplify the information we need to consider when choosing what to eat and how to lose weight.

Herein we cover the basics of the most sound diets for real, life-long weight loss and health while debunking the dangerous fad garbage we are fed each day on every medium we encounter. The goal is so explain the science and enlighten the reader in their quest for a healthier life so they can make their own decisions about what to put into their body, before moving on to talk about the actual food choices that constitute a plethora of healthy meals for all lifestyles and diet choices.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lance Eric
• Release date: Feb 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465940087

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The Basic Science of Weight Loss - A Handbook for Daily Health

Lance Eric

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I. Preface

A lot of us believe we have a good understanding of healthy eating and that the only reason we may have gotten fat is that we do not have the fortitude or persistence to follow these rules. Maybe you've tried sticking extremely close to the popular idea of healthy food for some period of time, only to come across unsatisfying results, or even ending up worse than where you began.

The unfortunate truth is that all the nutritional ideas you got from breakfast cereal advertisements, current affairs programs and government recommended diet guidelines are all either extremely out-dated, based on misunderstood science, or designed to sell you a product or label. Convincing customers to buy a product with a little red sticker on it that says Heart Friendly! is a lot more valuable than making sure the food it's attached to is actually in any way good for you. To find any real information about fitness and weight-loss, you need to turn to science and medical journals while keeping up-to-date with the latest studies and new data. It can be a painstaking process, taking years to build your knowledge into a positive eating plan or a healthy lifestyle. Instead, you have this handbook.

II. Contents

I. Preface

II. Contents

1. The Nature of This Handbook

1.1 Understanding the Goals

1.2 Understanding the Science

1.3 Understanding the Context

1.4 Understanding the Results

2. The Structure of Your Diet

2.1 The Most Basic Basics of Food and Nutrition

2.1a What is Alcohol?

2.2 Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates

2.2a Low GI and Complex Carbohydrates

2.3 Calories and Kilojoules

2.4 Cholesterol(!)

3. Less Science, More Food

3.1 Actual Meals in the Real World

3.2 Building a Diet versus a Lifestyle

3.3 Building a Lifestyle versus Making Excuses

3.4 What Shall We Eat?

3.4a Very Low Carb Meals

3.4b Fat and Carb Split Meals

3.5 Fruit

4. The Science of Your Choices

4.1 To Low Carb, or Not To Low Carb

4.2 The Other White Meat (Bread)

5. Applying