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The Balance: Your Personal Prescription for Supermetabolism, Renewed Vitality, Maximum Health, Instant Rejuvenation [Hardcover]

Oz Garcia (Author)
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September 23, 1998
Are you tired and rundown all the time?

Do you diet and never seem to lose weight?

Do you feel older that your age?

Do you feel something's wrong with you, yet you can't identify what it is?

Do you want to start a health and fitness regimen, but don't know where to begin?

Each year, Americans spend $28.5 billion on diet and weight-loss programs, yet we're fatter than ever. World-renowned health and fitness authority and nutritionists to the stars. Oz Garcia, has the solution to your problems: It's a matter of balance.

Oz has helped celebrities from Karen Duffy and Winona Ryder to Nicole Miller and supermodels like Yasmeen Ghauri and Daniela Pestova look and fell their best. Now--for the first time--he provides dietary guidance on how you, too, can achieve maximum physical and mental balancing, Garcia helps tailor your diet whether you have a fast metabolism, a slow metabolism, or a mixture of both.

Are you a woman who angers easily or a man who suffers from depression? How often do you need extra sleep? Are you constantly worrying? The answered to these questions will help determine your metabolic profile. You will discover what kinds of foods will boost "your" body's efficiency and what kinds are best avoided, as well as learning what proportions of proteins, carbohydrates, and fat work best for you. Oz demonstrates how to create your own unique, customized program, that combines nutritional planning and exercise with cutting-edge supplements and stress management--all specific to your own natural metabolic rhythm. When you eat the proper foods for your metabolic type, you don't have to worry about counting calories, and you won't feel hungry or deprived.You'll lose weight and keep it off, but that's not the only benefit of supermetabolism. It also produces:

Enhanced energy and endurance

Improved concentration and mental function

A stronger immune system

Improved digestion

A reduction in premature aging

An end to mood swings

No more PMS and menstrual cramps

A reduced risk of developing heart disease or cancer

By following the Balance program, you will gain energy, lose weight, and reduce your risk of heart attack, diabetes, and other diseases. You will feel better emotionally, and extend your life.

What is the Balance?

The premise is startling simple: The reason so many of us are overweight, depressed, fatigued, stressed out, and just plain sick is that we are eating precisely the wrong foods at precisely the wrong time. The goal of this revolutionary and personalized plan is to correct metabolic imbalances and bring your body back where it is meant to be, into The Balance.

This test will change your life

I would be more likely to crave: bread, pasta, bagels, cookies, candy bar, dessert My cravings vary

During the day I: sometimes forget to eat meals get hungry often eat 3 meals a day with nothing in between

Around evening time, I: come alive gradually slow down go to bed early

No matter what I eat: my weight stays the same I have trouble gaining weight I gain weight easily

My sex drive is: fairly low elevated normal What's your metabolic type?

The answers to the above and 45 other questions will determine whether your are a fast burner, slow burner or a mixed burner, and which of Oz Garcia's diet and supplement plans will provide you with optimal health and fitness. Tofind out more, take the test today!



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Oz Garcia is known in New York City as the nutritionist to see if you want to become full of vitality like his other clients, among them actress Winona Ryder, designer Nicole Miller, and supermodel Yasmeen Ghouri. He wrote The Balance in part because he couldn't keep up with the demand for his consultations.

With a 45-question quiz, Garcia will help you define yourself as a metabolically fast, slow, or mixed burner. While you'd think it'd be beneficial to be a fast burner, Garcia says that's not necessarily so: people who are on the thin, nervous side often pay for their figures with fatigue, depleted mineral stores, moodiness, and an impaired ability to concentrate. On the other hand, more than two-thirds of Americans are slow burners, he says, which means a tendency toward hyperinsulinemia, insomnia, heart disease, diabetes, and other serious health problems.

Even if you suspect you know what kind of burner you are, Garcia will enlighten you with specific foods, supplements, types of exercise, and lifestyle suggestions to try--including tips for eating out--to help improve your metabolism and overall health. Besides avoiding wheat--the dietary evil he says all types should avoid--the program is remarkably flexible and realistic. There's no calorie counting, and if you're at a social event and go off the program for a night, Garcia says so be it. Just hop back on the program as soon as possible afterwards.

In addition to The Balance's aim of bringing about greater energy, relief from PMS, improved resilience to stress, and a decrease in the frequency of mood swings, Garcia says it even boosts concentration and mental functioning, thereby improving relationships and even making therapy sessions more effective. While this may sound farfetched, Garcia's followers swear it's a remarkably effective, life-changing program.

Review

"...the information in this book is often more insightful and on target than the advice we could get from quite a few traditional doctors. After reading this book, you'll not only be inspired to change your eating habits, you'll probably be left hungering for more." -- Valerie Lanona, Hamptons

"If you're looking to be your most beautiful, this is the book for you." -- Veronica Webb, supermodel

"My level of energy was outrageous, my complexion was clean - and no more menstrual cramps. I was amazed...At the end of three months I had dropped the 15 pounds I set out to lose." -- Rachel Hayes, Cosmopolitan

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 220 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow; 1st edition (September 23, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060392541
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060392543
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,203,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I lost 25 pounds using the Blance method, September 9, 1999
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I love the Balance. It is so easy to follow. I took the quiz--It was so easy and quick. Once I found out what kind of burner I was I ate the foods and took the supplements Oz suggested. I was never tired. In fact my energy level increased! I lost 25 pounds! I look and feel great and I eat so much healthier.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! It was just what I had been looking for!, November 5, 1998
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I had been experiencing swings in my energy, ability to concentrate, dizziness, and no matter what I ate or didn't eat, didn't lose weight. I sat down and read the first few chapters in one sitting, and could not put it down. It was describing me to a tee! After understanding why some diets didn't work for me and what led to my "out of balance" chemistry in my body, everything started making sense of what was going on with me. Immediately, once I understood what had been going on, I lost the desire to over-eat or eat the wrong foods for the first time in my life. The knowledge and understanding gave me such a sense of hope and seemed so "right" that my appetite just slowed down. In the past week, I have lost 4 pounds, have actually forgotten to eat lunch for the first time in my life twice this week! I am not having to make myself stop eating. It is like I choose not to eat too much or the wrong foods and it doesn't bother me at all. That came from understanding what was happening to me and having hope that I could finally get healthy and fit and my desired weight.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK WAS POWERFUL FOR ME., August 23, 1999
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THIS BOOK EDUCATED ME ENORMOUSLY ABOUT HOW TO EAT. IT EXPLAINED TO ME ABOUT HOW THE FOODS I WAS EATING WERE CONTRIBUTING TO MY MOOD SWINGS, MY PROBLEMS WITH MY CRAVINGS AND MY WEIGHT. I LOST 18 POUNDS SINCE I BEGAN THE BALANCE PROGRAM LAST YEAR AND HAVE CONTINUED TO MAINTAIN MY WEIGHT. I'M EXTREMELY HAPPY I READ THIS BOOK.
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