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The Hormone Diet: A 3-Step Program to Help You Lose Weight, Gain Strength, and Live Younger Longer by Natasha Turner N.D.   by Richard Stooker

So far as I know, Dr. Barry Sears in his first book Enter the Zone in 1995 was the first to put forth the proposition that the real clue to gaining and losing weight (and good health) was not calories or even metabolism, but hormonal balance.

Insulin controls whether your cells store or burn fat, he said. If your insulin is high, it's very difficult to lose weight. You can cut your calories down, but if the foods you do eat raise your insulin, forget about it.

There are still a lot of weightloss experts who dispute this, and uphold the calories in, calories out model. It can kind of work, because it's logical conclusion is to cut out calorie-rich foods such as all sugar and starches, including grains. These foods, it turns out, are the very same ones that most raise insulin levels.

The author was diagnosed with a thyroid problem when still a young woman, making her very aware that healthy people need to have and maintain a healthy balance of all their hormones.

Therefore, this book addresses all the major human hormones, not just just insulin and glucagon. It includes testosterone, estrogen, thyroid hormone, DHEA and human growth hormone. She also discusses hormones that have been found recently but which relate to how full we feel -- leptin and ghrelin.

She goes into a lot of detail about how these hormones affect us, and the symptoms of having too little and too much of them.

The actual diet is, in my opinion, nothing special. It's not as structured as the Zone Diet. If you're following the Zone, you've got your hormones pretty well covered.

She is strong on emphasizing other activities that contribute toward weight gain or loss.

For instance, she goes into a lot of depth and detail about the connection between obesity and not getting enough sleep. We need sleep for hormones that make us feel full, as well as for human growth hormone which builds muscles and helps us lose weight.

She insists that exercise be an intrinsic part of your weight loss program as well. However, she is aware that chronic cardio as many people practice is not the most effective form. She mentions sprinting, and includes strength exercises. She also emphasizes the need to spend a day or more a week simply resting and recovering from the exercise we did the day before.

I would give this book a solid B for covering a lot of bases, and covering them well and in depth. It fails to get an A because she doesn't really say anything new, or to package it as well as possible, or to keep her diet as strict and yet easy to follow as possible.

If you want to read just one weightloss book, this one would be one of your best choices available. I'm sure that people who follow her suggestions do lose weight and feel better.

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