Metabolize: The Personalized Program for Weight Loss [Hardcover]

Kenneth Baum (Author), Richard Trubo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 2000

Determine your metabolic type to maximize weight loss and well-being with this simple, flexible, risk-free program.

Metabolism determines the efficiency with which the body produces energy and burns calories. This proven-effective program helps harness the body's metabolism to:

lose weight
gain energy
ease physical ailments
improve sleep
slow the aging process
reduce the risk of disease
increase the chances for a long and healthy life

Other one-diet-fits-all programs exclude certain nutrients and provide dieters with restrictive eating plans that, in the long run, are difficult to maintain or may compromise health. Metabolize is easy and safe. It helps readers establish their individual metabolic type and further guides them to discover the right foods to eat to fuel their type. The effectiveness of the program is enhanced by engaging in no-sweat physical activity, learning proper breathing, and adopting the right attitude.

Whatever your age, whatever your weight, whatever your current health status--Metabolize can improve the quality of your life.

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The past few years have seen an array of diet books that cancel each other out. When one doctor recommends an extremely low-fat diet and another pushes a high-fat plan, the consumer is left with three choices: low-fat is right; high-fat is right; or both are wrong and the answer to our weight-control problems lies elsewhere.

Coauthor Kenneth Baum, an athletic trainer, found a fourth choice when he was seeking an answer to his own weight problems: metabolic typing. It takes the point of view that both high-fat and low-fat are right, along with some nutrient ratios between the extremes. It all depends on your individual metabolism.

Metabolic typing isn't exactly a science yet, but it makes some intuitive sense. If you look around the world, you see cultures that eat very differently--native peoples in Alaska with their super-high-fat diets; tribes in Africa and South America that eat almost all fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts. Are these people merely eating the food available to them, or did they make evolutionary changes over hundreds of generations that made their bodies dependent upon these disparate diets? And, if the latter occurred, wouldn't it make sense that people in today's melting-pot cultures would have different dietary needs?

Metabolize divides us into five dietary types (a simple 26-question quiz tells you which type you are):

• Super-lean (the suggested diet is 70 percent carbohydrates, 15 percent protein, and 15 percent fat, or 70/15/15)
  
• Lean (60/20/20)
  
• Mixed (50/25/25)
  
• Clean (40/30/30)
  
• Super-clean (35/35/30)
  

As with all of these diet books, the ideas in general seem feasible, but there are demons in the details. For example, the diets he recommends top out at 1,800 calories--okay for some women, but brutal for guys. But on the other hand, eating on this plan should be interesting, no matter what your type. Dozens of foods make it onto the "preferred" list in each type, so there's never a shortage of new things to try. --Lou Schuler

About the Author

Kenneth Baum is a leading health and sports-performance consultant who works with premier athletes as well as with men and women interested in becoming fit, losing weight, and achieving optimal wellness. A former staff member at Elite Training Institute in Los Angeles, he conducts seminars nationwide. He is the author of The Mental Edge: Maximize Your Sports Potential with the Mind-Body Connection and lives in Dana Point, California.

Richard Trubo is the writer or cowriter of more than a dozen books, including The Mental Edge.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Adult; 1 edition (January 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399145907
• ISBN-13: 978-0399145902
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,400,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars METABOLIZE CHANGED MY LIFE !, May 20, 2000

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Will Hodges - See all my reviews

This review is from: Metabolize: The Personalized Program for Weight Loss (Hardcover)

I am so thankful for Ken Baum and his book Metabolize. The whole concept of Metabolic individuality is logical and realistic. My past failures at dieting are well docomented in my mind, Nutri-System, Jenni Craig, Protein Power, The Zone, Volumetrics, and out of desperation I even tried Richard Simmons and failed. Metabolize wipes the slate clean and shows you how to change your thinking about your past and create a new weight loss strategy for the future. Ken has wonderful techniques to integrate powerful thought and body changing action. This is so much more than a diet book. Metabolize teaches you how to eat, think, move, breath and supplement for healthy, permanent weight loss. My life has changed and so has my body. I will forever be different and no longer have the cravings for the junk that was polluting my body and making me fat and lazy.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT FITS !, May 26, 2000

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Lisa Moffet - See all my reviews

This review is from: Metabolize: The Personalized Program for Weight Loss (Hardcover)

My husband had a special surprise for our 15th anniversary, a trip to the Bahamas! I was excited and nervous. Excited because it was my dream vacation, nervous because I was so fat. I started looking at bathing suits and just wanted to cry! Nothing looked good on me, NOTHING! First for Women magazine had an article about a new book that came out in Jan. of this year called METABOLIZE. I bought it out of desperation having tried everything else. The information is so good and easy to read. The diet is not a diet at all but a unique way of sensible eating for your body. I have lost 58lbs since Jan and the sexy bathing suits that made me cry now make me smile... because they fit! Our vacation turned out great and I didn't put the weight back on after we got home. Meatbolize is a wonderful book. Thank you for helping my dream vacation be all I ever hoped it could be.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An easy way to weight lose, January 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Metabolize: The Personalized Program for Weight Loss (Hardcover)

This book is very easy to understand. It leads you through a step-by-step process of what you need to do to find your metabolism. It was very easy to understand. It is a great way to lose weight because it allows you to eat many of the same foods, just in different proportions. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into better shape.