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The amazing diet that lets you eat lots, exercise little and lose weight easily - from the publishers of the phenomenal Atkin's Diet
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The simple way to lose weight, look younger and feel healthier - without restricting calories or excessive exercising
The De Vany Diet is Professor Arthur De Vany's astonishing lifestyle programme. Based on his decades-long study of weight, diet and health, it looks to our ancestors' lifestyle of eating a lot and moving a little.
With fascinating insight and research, De Vany overturns our current guilt-ridden approach to diet and exercise, proving that we can lose pounds, look younger, beat diabetes and prevent heart disease simply by living on meat, fruit and vegetables, and embarking on only brief, intense periods of exercise. He then offers a clear plan, complete with menu ideas and exercise suggestions, so that you too can:
·Shed pounds in a matter of weeks
·Say goodbye to endless exercise
·Feel more energized
·Give up command-and-control diets for good
·Look younger and prevent premature ageing
·Increase your sex drive
·Achieve optimum health
Previously published as The New Evolution Diet.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I heard about Art De Vany in an article in the Times in 2008, headlined "The Diet that Really Works", now behind the Times' paywall. Bryan Appleyard, an excellent journalist, described adopting Art's lifestyle plan and rapidly dropping weight, appearing 10 years younger to his boss, and feeling generally happier, without the suffering of his previous yo-yo dieting (there's still a youtube video of him describing it). It seemed interesting, as it's trying to simulate the metabolic environment we evolved to have, but I was about to embark on a vegetarian phase so tucked the information away for a long time before revisiting it and putting it into action myself (more on that later).
De Vany is a retired economics professor who devised the system of privatising radiofrequencies, and wrote the definitive book on the economics of the movie industry. He developed his interest in metabolism after his son developed type I diabetes, and experimented with diet to optimise blood sugars. The diet he arrived at was strikingly similar to a hunter-gatherer diet, rich in meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts, but eliminating liquid calories, grains, legumes, dairy and processed foods. Before going into economics he had been a baseball player and has a long time interest in weight lifting. These strands came together in his website, which became a focus for people interested in the "paleo" movement - looking at the lifestyle we evolved to have as a necessary condition for optimal health. Art developed his programme of evolutionary fitness, where brief, intense, sporadic exercise takes the place of cardio, jogging etc. This is combined with his diet and a pattern of eating that downplays regularity and includes skipping the odd meal (a frightening prospect before you adapt to the diet, but easy and rewardng when you do). Hunter-gatherers don't suffer from diseases of civilisation (obesity, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, strokes, many cancers, many autoimmune diseases). The combination of diet, exercise and other lifestyle advice in Art's writing seeks to recreate this in a modern way, to get the benefits without historical reenactment. It seems to work for him, as Appleyard described him as looking like superman's slightly fitter dad. Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, is a follower, and describes Art as "at 72 looking like a Greek God at 42".
The benefits of this approach were dramatic and not limited to the weight loss (which was easier than any other methods I've tried, and critically has stayed off) - I slept better, didn't dip in the afternoons, and generally felt the way I did at when I was a lot younger. My chronic reflux problem disappeared after a couple of days and has never returned, my skin improved. I never wanted exercise before and had gone years without it, but now have energy and exercise feels natural. My blood pressure normalised. Similar testimonies are all over the web for people on De Vany's plan (or other writers' such as Robb Wolf or Mark Sisson who have blogs about paleo diets, and were heavily influenced by him).
In the end this book is for anyone wanting be healthy and feel good, the word "diet" in the title could lead people to write off the book as only concerned with weight, but as a reviewer for a previous version of the book said, it could be the most important book you ever read.
De Vany is a retired economics professor who devised the system of privatising radiofrequencies, and wrote the definitive book on the economics of the movie industry. He developed his interest in metabolism after his son developed type I diabetes, and experimented with diet to optimise blood sugars. The diet he arrived at was strikingly similar to a hunter-gatherer diet, rich in meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts, but eliminating liquid calories, grains, legumes, dairy and processed foods. Before going into economics he had been a baseball player and has a long time interest in weight lifting. These strands came together in his website, which became a focus for people interested in the "paleo" movement - looking at the lifestyle we evolved to have as a necessary condition for optimal health. Art developed his programme of evolutionary fitness, where brief, intense, sporadic exercise takes the place of cardio, jogging etc. This is combined with his diet and a pattern of eating that downplays regularity and includes skipping the odd meal (a frightening prospect before you adapt to the diet, but easy and rewardng when you do). Hunter-gatherers don't suffer from diseases of civilisation (obesity, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, strokes, many cancers, many autoimmune diseases). The combination of diet, exercise and other lifestyle advice in Art's writing seeks to recreate this in a modern way, to get the benefits without historical reenactment. It seems to work for him, as Appleyard described him as looking like superman's slightly fitter dad. Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, is a follower, and describes Art as "at 72 looking like a Greek God at 42".
The benefits of this approach were dramatic and not limited to the weight loss (which was easier than any other methods I've tried, and critically has stayed off) - I slept better, didn't dip in the afternoons, and generally felt the way I did at when I was a lot younger. My chronic reflux problem disappeared after a couple of days and has never returned, my skin improved. I never wanted exercise before and had gone years without it, but now have energy and exercise feels natural. My blood pressure normalised. Similar testimonies are all over the web for people on De Vany's plan (or other writers' such as Robb Wolf or Mark Sisson who have blogs about paleo diets, and were heavily influenced by him).
In the end this book is for anyone wanting be healthy and feel good, the word "diet" in the title could lead people to write off the book as only concerned with weight, but as a reviewer for a previous version of the book said, it could be the most important book you ever read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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De Vany shows you in this book how to change the way you eat and train physically. Adapt these changes, they will make you feel better and look younger - after following the guidelines for a month, I can testify that they work extremely well.
Gone are all the slumps before and after noon where the sugar rush from the breakfast or lunch has worn off, leaving you sleepy. My energy levels are now much more constant, enabling me to keep going through the whole day without slowdowns.
The food you will eat will taste better - and the variety of it has increased as well after incorporating the diet into my life. Green salads with meat, fish, vegetables and fruit in colorful tones - none of the grey or brown only left in my menu.
Giving up all the sugar and non-food items (cakes, biscuits, ice-cream, sodas) and grains (breads, beans, pasta, cereals) is not only good for you and your health, it is easier than you think. After the first week your body no longer craves for them and it becomes less of a strain of willpower to keep avoiding the sugary foods you are bombarded with everywhere.
And you do not need to avoid these foods at all costs - once you think about it, the only exciting thing for your brain about these foods is the taste - there is no need to eat the whole cake at one go to enjoy it. Two bites of it will satisfy your brain and leave you with a good memory of having tasted something good without ruining your blood sugar levels and your waistline.
Also, please do follow the training guidelines given by De Vany. There is no excessive need to train hours upon end. 2 to 3 training sessions 20 - 30 minutes each per week, with high intensity levels are enough. And if you cannot take the time to go for weightlifting at a gym, read You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises. You can build your muscles at home without all the big weights and impressive looking machinery. Strength training at home will save you time, you will be done with a training session in less time than it would have taken you to back your gym back and drive to the training hall.
All the facts given in book are backed up with references and scientific research - De Vany himself has been living the diet for over two decades and can be positively envied for his young looks and vitality in his seventies.
Gone are all the slumps before and after noon where the sugar rush from the breakfast or lunch has worn off, leaving you sleepy. My energy levels are now much more constant, enabling me to keep going through the whole day without slowdowns.
The food you will eat will taste better - and the variety of it has increased as well after incorporating the diet into my life. Green salads with meat, fish, vegetables and fruit in colorful tones - none of the grey or brown only left in my menu.
Giving up all the sugar and non-food items (cakes, biscuits, ice-cream, sodas) and grains (breads, beans, pasta, cereals) is not only good for you and your health, it is easier than you think. After the first week your body no longer craves for them and it becomes less of a strain of willpower to keep avoiding the sugary foods you are bombarded with everywhere.
And you do not need to avoid these foods at all costs - once you think about it, the only exciting thing for your brain about these foods is the taste - there is no need to eat the whole cake at one go to enjoy it. Two bites of it will satisfy your brain and leave you with a good memory of having tasted something good without ruining your blood sugar levels and your waistline.
Also, please do follow the training guidelines given by De Vany. There is no excessive need to train hours upon end. 2 to 3 training sessions 20 - 30 minutes each per week, with high intensity levels are enough. And if you cannot take the time to go for weightlifting at a gym, read You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises. You can build your muscles at home without all the big weights and impressive looking machinery. Strength training at home will save you time, you will be done with a training session in less time than it would have taken you to back your gym back and drive to the training hall.
All the facts given in book are backed up with references and scientific research - De Vany himself has been living the diet for over two decades and can be positively envied for his young looks and vitality in his seventies.
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