Diet Book Review:Eat This Not That: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!

Eat This Not That: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!
by David Zinczenko (Author), Matt Goulding (Author)
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Eat what you want, when you want--and watch the pounds disappear!

Americans spend more than $400 billion a year eating out, and behind each burger, turkey sandwich, and ice cream sundae is a simple decision that could help you control your weight—and your life. The problem is, restaurant chains and food producers aren't interested in helping you make healthy choices. In fact, they invest $30 billion a year on advertising, much of it aimed at confusing eaters and disguising the fat and calorie counts of their products.

All of that has changed with EAT THIS, NOT THAT!. This book puts the entire food industry under the spotlight, and arms you with the savvy tricks and insider information it takes to eat well no matter where you are. With EAT THIS, NOT THAT! you're the expert in every eating situation, from the frozen food aisle to your favorite fast food joint to your local sports bar. You control your food universe—and lose the pounds you want--because, unlike every other customer, you'll know the smart choices to make—instantly!

EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is jam-packed with secrets the restaurant industry doesn't want you to know. For example:

• Burger King doesn't want you to know that a BK Big Fish® Sandwich and fries have a whopping 1000 calories—nearly half your daily caloric intake! (Fish is usually healthy, but not this kind. Find out why with this book.)

• Pizza Hut doesn't want you to know that a standard pizza in Italy contains 500 to 800 calories, but the same meal at Pizza Hut can top 2,100 calories! (You'd need to ride a stationary bike for more than three hours to burn off this mistake. Instead, eat all the pizza you want by making smart choices. EAT THIS, NOT THAT! shows you how.)

• Macaroni Grill doesn't want you to know that a single serving of their Grilled Teriyaki Salmon has more than three times your daily allowance of sodium! (Cut your risk of high blood pressure by making smart choices at the same restaurant. You'll find them inside.)

If only you knew the industry secrets, you could eat at any of your favorite restaurants—or chow down on everything from the company vending machine to your kids’ Halloween buckets—and know that every decision you made was smart, healthy, and the best possible choice for you. For example, did you know:

• At McDonald’s, an Egg McMuffin® is actually a healthy choice, with just 300 calories. (The Hotcakes pack more than double that amount!)

• At Krispy Kreme, all you need to do is order the Very Berry Chiller instead of the Mocha Dream Chiller, and you'll save 500 calories! (Do that once a week and you'll drop more than 7 pounds this year—without trying!)

• At Chipotle, you can cut 570 calories out of your Chicken Burrito just by ordering it as a bowl (without the tortilla) and asking them to hold the rice. (Same great taste, but with 94 fewer carb grams!)

• Choosing a cinnamon roll at Au Bon Pain over Cinnabon will save you 463 calories and 20 grams of fat!

• In the freezer section of your local supermarket, a turkey pot pie from Swanson’s has 610 fewer calories than a turkey pot pie from Pepperidge Farms.

• In the produce aisle, you'll get twice the vitamin C—and nine times as much vitamin A—simply by picking red bell peppers over green ones. (Who said eating healthy was difficult?)

And that’s why EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is going to change everything. It’s time to level the playing field. We're all tired of sneaky calories adding to our waistlines, and having to starve ourselves or spend hours on the treadmill trying to burn off the damage. Now—for the first time—you're in charge. With this simple illustrated guide to thousands of foods--along with the nutrition secrets that lead to fast and permanent weight loss--you'll make the smartest choice every time!

Customer Reviews
"That pie has the same calories as three Big Macs?"
By Sean P. Logue (Research Triangle Park, NC USA)
This is a great book. Slick and attractive, with fantastic full-color pictures. Very well researched too, which is expected coming from the folks behind one of the most densely-packed, informative magazines, Men's Health.

The truth is that casual dining restaurants have higher calorie meals than the much-maligned fast food joints. While the fast food restaurants are now required to publish calorie, fat, and sodium contents, the casual restaurants have been quietly fighting against requiring them to release the same information. Thanks to this book and the research behind it, we can now get a better idea of what we've been eating at these restaurants. And it is eye opening.

Each two page section has a high-calorie, fat trap food on the right, and a healthier alternative on the left. Lots of reasons for why one is a better choice than the other, as well as quick lists of other good choices (and not so good choices) on the left and right.

This simple, but effective layout conveys a ton of information quickly and easily. The sections are by restaurant, and by situation type (like shopping at the mall, or at a holiday party), so it is easy to read and get good ideas for how to make better food choices.

The only negative is that you might never get fries again, after you see all the things you could eat instead and still not hit the calorie count of the fries. Outback's Aussie Cheese Fries have 2900 calories. Wow!

Highly recommended book, even if you aren't trying to lose weight. You'll learn a ton about the foods you are eating at restaurants, which is well worth the price of admission.

Sean P. Logue, 2007

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What we should eat. Before & After Doing exercise

Q Eating a meal before or after we’ve done exercise, which one is better for our heath?
A Both of them have differently advantage.

If you eat before you’re doing exercise, it helps you to get energy and to be active, because of the level of sugar in your blood is upping. However, you should leave out of time between your eating and doing exercise depending on your potential body. Some people get cramp and feel pressure when they eat a meal and immediately do exercise, but for other people, they might not get anything.
A research reports that a cyclist who eats carbohydrate 45 grams (giving energy 180 cal) before cycling 5 minutes, He can do exercise powerfully more than common in lasted 15 minutes, which it compares to a person who don’t get any meal. So that, before an hour you do exercise, you should get carbohydrate which give energy about 200-300 cal such as banana, cereal, whole meal, bread or wheat cracker.
After you’ve done exercise, you should get supper which has high carbohydrate and a little bit of protein such as cereal with milk or yogurt. In reason of protein will help decreasing your painful muscle, and recover it as well. Besides, if you immediately eat after your exercise, it will help you only eating less than your regularity. This is a good kind of diet process for your health as well.

Q How to we breathe in a while we are doing exercise of Cardio style?
A. The breathing in Cardio style, it is similar as your common breathing. It happens when we get fatigued or need some oxygen to use to be energy while we’re doing exercise. The frequency of breathing will automatically be improved follow by our exhaustion.
For breathing while we are lifting dumbbell, we will breathe in when we start and breathe out when we lift dumbbell. We have to control our breathing follow by our motion and not to stop breathing beat while we are doing exercise, because it will make a impact on your blood pressure.
* The exercise of Cardio style is a kind of exercise by running, swimming, cycling and etc. It efficiently helps our heart and lung to be healthy.

How to stop getting fat

If you would like to success in your diet, you have to choose what food you will eat and not affect to your weight, that it won’t make you get starving and affect to your health as well.
Carbohydrate helps you’re long full.
Carbohydrate is a great benefit of nutrient for you health and let you get full in long time as well. It doesn’t make you apparently get fat as eating oily food and it also help you get well in your defecation. For example of carbohydrate food are brown rice, coarse rice, taro, and beans.
The popular food for dieter
The food which is suitable for whoever is being on diet is Carbohydrate. It is valuable for your health and not makes you often feel hungry. The carbohydrate food you eat, it should not be in high cholesterol one or its cooking process is deep frying. Besides, the kinds of meats which you should eat are fish, chicken or any avian meat. And also, you don’t forget to drink fresh water at least 8 glasses a day or low fat milks and avoid sweets and soft drinks as well.

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Snack attack? Don't be tricked by low-fat labels

It's easy to overeat when you think treats are ‘good’ for you

By Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 8:28 a.m. ET March 9, 2007


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Using only two words, I bet I could get you to overeat a snack you don’t even really like.

Those two words would be “low fat.”

We're living in a world of fat-free, carb-free and sugar-free snacks. Most of the time, if we think they are at least low fat, we think “it must be good for us” — even if the snack is loaded with sugar.

When Nabisco came out with SnackWell's, a line of no-fat and low-fat cookies and crackers, they flew off of shelves, gobbled up by the people who believed they could eat them until they magically whittled down into a supermodel. Six months later and about 6 pounds heavier, the low-fat fanatics finally realized that these cookies had about only 30 percent fewer calories than regular cookies.
This happens all the time. Often the fat-free version is not much lower in calories than the regular version. For example, each low-fat Oreo cookie has 50 calories. The regular version has just over three calories more.

Low-fat labels can lead us to mindlessly overeat a product with guilt-free abandon.
ake granola. Where low-fat granola is indeed lower in fat, it is only about 12 percent lower in calories. It does not take a lot of mindless munching to scarf down an extra 12 percent of granola, especially while thinking you are doing your body good.

During a recent experiment, a French colleague, Pierre Chandon, and I invited people to watch some commercials and a video episode of the "Dukes of Hazzard." We gave them bags of granola that were labeled as either “Low-fat Rocky Mountain Granola” or “Regular Rocky Mountain Granola,” as we described in the current issue of Journal of Marketing Research. In reality, all of the granola was low fat.

While people watched the video, they ate the granola. Those given what was labeled as low-fat granola kept munching long after the other group stopped. After the movie, we weighed the remaining granola to see how much had disappeared. It turned out that those eating what they thought was low-fat granola ate 35 percent more, which translated into 192 more calories. When we offered them low-fat chocolate, they loaded up on 23 percent more calories.

Cruel twist
The low-fat label tricked people into eating more than if the product had a regular label.

The cruel twist is that these labels can have an even more dramatic impact on those who are overweight.
People who are overweight and eat more than their thinner peers are in danger of really over-indulging when they see something with a low-fat label.

The problem is that when we are looking for an excuse to eat something, low-fat labels give it to us.

What’s worse than overeating a snack?

Overeating one we don’t even really like that much. Few low-fat snacks are nearly as tasty as their regular version.

So rather than overeating something you don’t even really like, enjoy the regular version — but only half as much of it.

Big gulp: Liquid calories can sneak up on you

Studies find many Americans are pouring on the pounds
By Karen Collins, R.D.
Special to MSNBC.com
Updated: 12:48 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2007


Karen Collins, R.D.

New findings are adding to the research suggesting that more than ever before, what and how much we drink may increase calorie intake and weight without our noticing.

The problem of increasing waistlines and obesity in the United States has escalated in the last 30 years. During this time, calorie consumption increased an average of 150 to 300 calories per day, with about half that increase coming from beverages. The variety of calorie-dense beverages and number of soft-drink servings per day both grew. Average soft drink portion size increased more than 50 percent from about 13 ounces to almost 20 ounces.
Several studies peg calories from beverages as one of the causes of increased numbers of overweight and obese people in the United States. Studies suggest that when people consume more calories from beverages, they don’t compensate by eating or drinking less.

One new study, for example, served 33 men and women the same lunch once a week for six weeks with only the beverage type or amount changing each week. Regardless of the type of beverage, people drank more when served 18 ounces than when served 12 ounces. When the amount of calorie-containing cola increased, women’s beverage calories increased by 10 percent and the men’s by 26 percent.

Participants ate the same amount of food independent of the higher amount of calories they drank, leading to an increase in the meal’s total calories. Yet after a higher-calorie meal containing sweetened soft drinks, participants reported no difference in hunger or satisfaction.
Short-term studies — generally one to three days — in which people decrease high-calorie soft drink consumption usually show a decreased total daily calorie consumption. Longer term studies ranging from six months to four years have found an association between drinking less calorie-containing soft drinks and weight loss.

Scientists offer several explanations as to why we may not notice calories from some beverages. A drink’s rapid passage through the mouth provides less time for signals to trigger the brain that you are eating. Compared to beverages, solid food seems to provide more of a feeling of fullness, which signals the brain to stop eating. Thick liquids (like smoothies and shakes) provide considerably more fullness signals than thin liquids, such as soft drinks, fruit drinks and sweetened tea and coffee.

As portion sizes of calorie-dense beverages increase, it is easier to gulp down larger amounts than to eat larger portions of solid foods. Finally, some researchers suggest that there may be a psychological component, too. Many of us consider beverages a separate category that does not “count” in the same way as solid food.
For people who either have trouble getting enough or limiting calories, this research suggests that beverage choice and portion are important considerations. Calorie-rich drinks offer an opportunity to boost calories without reducing appetite.

However, for those who look at drinks as a way to work in meals on the run, it suggests that this approach may lead to a higher calorie intake than chewing a meal. For weight control, limiting calorie-containing beverages to a few modest daily servings of nutrient-containing drinks and drinking water, unsweetened tea or coffee and other zero-calorie drinks is a smart strategy

Cannabis drug may help stop the munchies

Drug company to test treatment as possible appetite suppressant
LONDON - Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals Plc said on Tuesday it planned to start human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis.

Cannabis is commonly associated with stimulating hunger and several other companies, like Sanofi-Aventis with Acomplia, are working on new drugs that try to switch off the brain circuits that make people hungry whem they smoke it.

GW Pharma, however, says it had derived a treatment from cannabis itself that could help suppress hunger.
“The cannabis plant has 70 different cannabinoids in it and each has a different affect on the body,” GW Managing Director Justin Gover told Reuters.

“Some can stimulate your appetite, and some in the same plant can suppress your appetite. It is amazing both scientifically and commercially,” he said in a telephone interview.

GW said it planned to start clinical trials of the new drug in the second half of this year. Medicines have to pass three stages of tests in humans before being assessed by regulators in a process that takes many years.

Sanofi-Aventis’ Acomplia, which it believes can achieve $3 billion in annual sales, is already on sale in Europe and it is waiting for a U.S. regulatory decision in April.
Secret location
Several other big drug companies also already have similar products to Acomplia in clinical trials.

GW is best known for developing Sativex, a treatment derived from cannabis that fights spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients. Sativex, an under-the-tongue spray, has been approved in Canada, but has hit delays with regulators in Britain.

GW submitted Sativex for assessment by several European regulators in September, and hopes to secure approval for the UK, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands in the second half of this year at the earliest, the company said on Tuesday.

GW’s marijuana plants are grown indoors in a secret location in Southern England.

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McDonald’s finally picks trans-fat-free oil

1,200 restaurants now testing healthier formula for cooking french fries
CHICAGO - McDonald’s Corp. has finally selected a new trans-fat-free oil for cooking its famous french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said Monday.

While it has developed a healthier new oil, the company is still not saying when it will be used in all 13,700 U.S. restaurants. It already trails competitors in committing to a zero-trans fat oil.

Spokesman Walt Riker said the oil is currently in more than 1,200 U.S. restaurants after extensive testing, but declined to provide details on timing or locations.
“We can confirm that we’ve got the right oil,” he said. “We’re phasing it in.”

The choice of a new oil comes as McDonald’s and others face a July 1 deadline to begin complying with an ordinance passed by New York City last month making it the first U.S. city to ban all restaurants from using artificial trans fats.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald’s has said for months it would comply with such a ban, and said it would introduce any new oil nationwide rather than have a separate oil for its New York restaurants. But it had not confirmed that testing was complete.

Riker said the new oil is canola-based and includes corn and soy oils.

Addressing long-held concerns that changing the oil could jeopardize the popular taste of its fries, he said: “We’re very confident in our test and taste results. ... We’re very confident in what we’re hearing back from our customers.”

The Chicago Tribune, which first reported McDonald’s decision on a new oil Sunday, said the company has tested 18 varieties of oil in more than 50 blends during the past seven years.
McDonald’s had been under pressure for moving more slowly than smaller rivals Wendy’s International Inc. and Yum Brands Inc.’s KFC and Taco Bell to rid its oil of the artery-clogging trans fats.

The $22 billion company was especially cautious after reneging within months on a September 2002 pledge to introduce a new oil, citing concerns about changing the taste of its fries.

“It’s just taking a little bit of time because as we move forward we don’t want to jeopardize the iconic nature of the french fry, which as you know is so very important to our brand,” CEO Jim Skinner told an investor conference in New York two months ago.
The company uses a healthier oil blend in some countries overseas but says regional differences in agricultural production require development of different blends.

McDonald’s has not identified the test markets the latest oil was used in. Riker denied that Phoenix was among them, as the Tribune report said.

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