The Nashville Diet: The 3-STep Plan to Lose Weight, Nutraplenish Your Body, and Achieve Vibrant Health (Hardcover)

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Your paunch is not your fault, assures pharmacist and nutritional counselor Tucker, and neither is your moodiness or your exhaustion. Rather, these problems can be blamed on your diet, which, if it's anything like the typical American diet, leaves you simultaneously overfed and undernourished. According to Tucker, soil depletion, overprocessing, and "green harvesting" (picking unripe fruits and vegetables) have robbed food of much of its nutrients, and the body needs "nutraceuticals," or plant-based vitamin supplements, to get the nourishment it requires. She recommends, for example, a polysaccharide called arabinoglactan for fiber and an immune system boost, as well as methylsulfonylmethane, which delivers "sulfur in the friendly form of sulfonyl, which your body recognizes as food." Tucker also champions different ginsengs, liver tonics and "alpha-lipoic acid," which, she reports, studies have shown can make old rats "do the macarena." But along with all the pill pushing, Tucker provides some gentle exercise suggestions (pushups, squats) and some sound nutritional advice (instead of sodas, try iced herb teas). Many people may balk at the pharmacy's worth of pills Tucker advocates ("If you like," she says, "you can think of food supplementing your nutrient intake" via pills), but they might also be surprised by some of her facts: if spinach really does contain about 1/70th of the iron it used to, for example, her arguments for supplements get more convincing.
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The diet that's making Nashville slim! -- Woman's World Magazine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: LifeLine Press (January 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895261189
• ISBN-13: 978-0895261182
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,680,178 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Supplements will help!, March 19, 2003

By	Elizabeth Dunn (Temecula, CA United States) - See all my reviews

I read many, many books on weight loss. Most were very restrictive in the diet. I was really looking for a healthy diet that a person could live with. Something to help me lose about 10 pounds and get some energy. This book is great! I learned alot about food and liver in the fat flush plan, that started me using some great supplements. Now after reading this book, I have learned about other supplements and it has given me energy and helped me maintain my weight without much effort. Thanks for a great book

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You will lose weight guaranteed!, March 3, 2003

By	Say Grace "dirtyh20sam" (Incline Village, NV USA) - See all my reviews

I reviewed this book at the store for an hour so you don't have to. This book contains the following, a very confusing tedious test to take, buying 50 or more supplements, taking these supplements all day at different times during several months, jumping on trampolines, and eating cruciferous veggies. Very nutty in that it wont tell you what day would look like on the diet or what foods you can eat, and it seems the publisher here has a vested interest in you buying these supplements. Don't waste your time. You will lose weight from sheer frustration.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Nashville Diet, September 25, 2005

By	Jennifer (VA) - See all my reviews

This is a good book to read if you are interested in weight loss strategies that focus on alternative medicine. I would recommend it.