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The Fat Flush Plan
Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S., is a leading nutritionist and former nutrition director at the renowned Pritikin Center. She has published nearly 20 books, including the current mega-bestseller, the Fat Flush Plan. She is truly a leader in understanding healthy eating for both weight control and disease prevention, and her books are an asset to any empowered health consumer's library.
1) The Fat Flush Plan
A mega-bestseller, Gittelman's book offers a comprehensive weight loss approach relying on internal cleansing, balanced proteins, essential fats, and good carbohydrates. By detoxing the liver, metabolism increases - which can help thyroid patients. I follow some key Fat Flush principles, and have found it helpful in my own weight loss.
2) The Living Beauty Detox Program: The Revolutionary Diet
In this book, Gittelman helps you identify the seasons during which you are most symptomatic, and then offers suggestions -- including hydration, diet, vegetables and fruits, supplements, natural hormones and more -- to help deal with seasonal imbalances in your health. She organizes her recommendations into formalized "cleansing" periods, with specific programs for each season.
3) Why Am I Always So Tired?
Gittelman believes that copper overload may be an overlooked culprit behind fatigue, energy slumps, mood swings, anxiety, and other common symptoms. Gittleman's innovative book provides a detailed plan to determine if copper overload may be a problem, how to explore this further using hair analysis, and a diet plan that can help rebalance this important mineral.
4) Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar in Any Diet
Nutritional pioneer Ann Louise Gittelman was talking about the dangers of sugar and the pitfalls of the low-fat diet long before the "Big Fat Lie" controversy of 2002. The book discusses why sugar is a problem for health, and includes some excellent recipes for low-sugar foods and meals that help cut out the sugar without sacrificing flavor.
5) Eat Fat, Lose Weight: The Right Fats Can Make You Thin for Life
This is an earlier book of Ann Louise Gittleman's, and represents some of her best thinking about balance between proteins, carbohydrates and fats, and helps us understand which fats are good for us, how much we need and which ones we should eat daily to help us burn fat and keep weight off.
