Review
'Highly recommended' --Michael Livingston, Director, H.E.A.R.T UK
'The diet programme in Dump Your Toxic Waist! has really helped me, especially my health. A couple of months before I started the programme, my doctor told me my blood pressure was high. My breathing was very bad I could hardly walk for two minutes without stopping, feeling tired and dizzy. Now I can proudly say I am all geared up for a marathon! I lost 7kg (15lbs) and 4 inches from my waist. My blood pressure has gone down to normal. Although I ve finished the 28 days, this is now my new lifestyle.' --Florence T.
What a fantastic book. Dump Your Toxic Waist offers an invaluable insight into the causes of heart disease and how to prevent it. It's a witty and interesting read and keeps the reader engaged throughout. Even the 'non-reader' will find it hard to put this one down. If you have heart disease or want to make sure it doesn't affect you, read on and be entertained, educated and enthused to make lifestyle changes that may well be life saving for you. --Denise Armstrong, Lifestyle Manager, Heart Research UK
'The diet programme in Dump Your Toxic Waist! has really helped me, especially my health. A couple of months before I started the programme, my doctor told me my blood pressure was high. My breathing was very bad I could hardly walk for two minutes without stopping, feeling tired and dizzy. Now I can proudly say I am all geared up for a marathon! I lost 7kg (15lbs) and 4 inches from my waist. My blood pressure has gone down to normal. Although I ve finished the 28 days, this is now my new lifestyle.' --Florence T.
What a fantastic book. Dump Your Toxic Waist offers an invaluable insight into the causes of heart disease and how to prevent it. It's a witty and interesting read and keeps the reader engaged throughout. Even the 'non-reader' will find it hard to put this one down. If you have heart disease or want to make sure it doesn't affect you, read on and be entertained, educated and enthused to make lifestyle changes that may well be life saving for you. --Denise Armstrong, Lifestyle Manager, Heart Research UK
Denise Armstrong, Lifestyle Manager, Heart Research UK
'What a fantastic book. Dump Your Toxic Waist offers an invaluable insight into the causes of heart disease and how to prevent it. It's a witty and interesting read and keeps the reader engaged throughout. Even the 'non-reader' will find it hard to put this one down. If you have heart
disease or want to make sure it doesn't affect you, read on and be entertained, educated and enthused to make lifestyle changes that may well be life saving for you.
disease or want to make sure it doesn't affect you, read on and be entertained, educated and enthused to make lifestyle changes that may well be life saving for you.
'Highly recommended'
Michael Livingston, Direct, H.E.A.R.T UK
Florence T.
`The diet programme in Dump Your Toxic Waist! has really helped me, especially my health. A couple of months before I started the programme, my doctor told me my blood pressure was high. My breathing was very bad - I could hardly walk for two minutes without stopping, feeling tired and dizzy. Now I can proudly say I am all geared up for a marathon! I lost 7kg (15lbs) and 4 inches from my waist. My blood pressure has gone down to normal. Although I've finished the 28 days, this is now my new lifestyle.'
Michael Livingston, Director, H.E.A.R.T UK
Highly recommended
Florence T.
The diet programme in Dump Your Toxic Waist! has really helped me, especially my health. A couple of months before I started the programme, my doctor told me my blood pressure was high. My breathing was very bad - I could hardly walk for two minutes without stopping, feeling tired and dizzy. Now I can proudly say I am all geared up for a marathon! I lost 7kg (15lbs) and 4 inches from my waist. My blood pressure has gone down to normal. Although I've finished the 28 days, this is now my new lifestyle.
Denise Armstrong
What a fantastic book. Dump Your Toxic Waist offers an invaluable insight into the causes of heart disease and how to prevent it. It's a witty and interesting read and keeps the reader engaged throughout. Even the 'non-reader' will find it hard to put this one down. If you have heart
disease or want to make sure it doesn't affect you, read on and be entertained, educated and enthused to make lifestyle changes that may well be life saving for you.
disease or want to make sure it doesn't affect you, read on and be entertained, educated and enthused to make lifestyle changes that may well be life saving for you.
Product Description
Lose fat! Gain health and energy! Dump Your Toxic Waist! Lose inches, beat diabetes and stop that heart attack! is the most accurate and effective guide to losing fat and gaining health. Most diet plans, whether low-carb, low-GI or low-fat, focus on one strategy and overlook all the other causes of flab and fatigue. Here, Dr Derrick Cutting, a GP with a special interest in lifestyle and nutrition, has concentrated all the scientific evidence into one powerful, practical plan to lose weight safely. Although highly acclaimed by medical and nutritional experts, this book is an easy, light-hearted read with cartoons and summary boxes. You can read about the revolutionary discovery that abdominal fat is not merely useless flab, but actively toxic tissue, releasing adipokines that sabotage your metabolism. Understand how this toxic fat is linked to the metabolic syndrome, leading to high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, infertility and erection problems. Follow the 28-day plan to reverse metabolic syndrome. Enjoy 76 delicious recipes. Use the ground-breaking MUNCH method to reset your metabolism and dump your toxic waist!
From the Publisher
"Dump Your Toxic Waist! Lose inches, beat diabetes and stop that heart attack!" is the most accurate and effective guide to losing fat and gaining health. Most diet plans, whether low-carb, low-GI or low-fat, focus on one strategy and overlook all the other causes of flab and fatigue. Here, Dr Derrick Cutting, a GP with a special interest in lifestyle and nutrition, has concentrated all the scientific evidence into one powerful, practical plan to lose weight safely.
Although highly acclaimed by medical and nutritional experts, this book is an easy, light-hearted read with cartoons and summary boxes. You can read about the revolutionary discovery that abdominal fat is not merely useless flab, but actively toxic tissue, releasing "adipokines" that sabotage your metabolism. Understand how this toxic fat is linked to the metabolic syndrome, leading to high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, infertility and erection problems.
Although highly acclaimed by medical and nutritional experts, this book is an easy, light-hearted read with cartoons and summary boxes. You can read about the revolutionary discovery that abdominal fat is not merely useless flab, but actively toxic tissue, releasing "adipokines" that sabotage your metabolism. Understand how this toxic fat is linked to the metabolic syndrome, leading to high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, infertility and erection problems.
Follow the 28-day plan to reverse metabolic syndrome. Enjoy 76 delicious recipes. Use the ground-breaking MUNCH method to reset your metabolism and dump your toxic waist!
From the Back Cover
Excess fat round your belly is not just dead weight; it's a living liability.
It's a fact. We are getting fatter and risking our health in the process. We are also spending huge sums on pills, potions and faddy diets, with little long-term success. But it doesn't need to be this way. Whether you are aiming to improve you health or you simply want to get slim, this is the only book you need to reverse the metabolic syndrome - the root cause of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Why follow a low-carb, low-GI or low-fat diet that overlooks all the other factors that cause flab and fatigue? At last, here is a book that puts all the science into one powerful and practical plan. It sorts the facts from the fiction to explain exactly why you need to lose the excess weight and how to do it properly!
Follow the ground-breaking 28-day MUNCH plan to reset you metabolism and dump your toxic waist!
About the Author
Dr Derrick Cutting is a GP and the Senior Partner in a group practice in Surrey. He is passionate about preventing coronorary heart disease and diabetes and has a special interest in the impact of diet and lifestyle on health and wellbeing.
Excerpted from Dump Your Toxic Waist! Lose inches, beat diabetes and stop that heart attack! by Derrick Cutting. Copyright © 2008. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 1
The toxic bulge
LETHAL EPIDEMICS SWEEP WESTERN WORLD
This sensational headline is no exaggeration. We are being engulfed by epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease - all merciless killers.
Where does all this destruction come from? To track the origins of this metabolic plague, you may have to look no further than your waist. This is where it all begins for most of us. If your waist is even a little wider than it should be, forget `love handles'and `spare tyre': this
is toxic tissue. It's not harmless flab, but a mass of metabolically malignant adipose tissue.
We now know that abdominal fat produces a range of noxious
chemicals called adipokines that sabotage your metabolism. These chemical messengers act like spies carrying a false message. As a result, tissues become less sensitive to insulin - producing the condition known as `insulin resistance' - and you lose control of your blood sugar; the pancreas has to pump out more insulin in order to
get a response; insulin levels go up and a vicious cycle accelerates the accumulation of abdominal fat; blood pressure rises; the balance of blood fats and cholesterol is upset; blood clots form more easily and arteries clog up.
The metabolic syndrome (Chapter 18) used to be called `Syndrome X', which makes it sound like a mysterious alien plot to wipe us out (and if it is, the aliens are enjoying a measure of success). If aliens had
implanted a toxic mass in your belly, programmed to destroy you insidiously, wouldn't you be keen to get rid of it?
You may want to slim your waist so you can look good on the
beach, or because you're fed up with buttons flying off your waistband. Quite understandable. Those are good enough reasons. But it's so much more important than that. Surely you want to do it in a way that keeps the weight off, blocking the vicious cycle and reversing the
changes that lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, blood clots and heart disease.
That's what this book is all about.
The toxic bulge
LETHAL EPIDEMICS SWEEP WESTERN WORLD
This sensational headline is no exaggeration. We are being engulfed by epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease - all merciless killers.
Where does all this destruction come from? To track the origins of this metabolic plague, you may have to look no further than your waist. This is where it all begins for most of us. If your waist is even a little wider than it should be, forget `love handles'and `spare tyre': this
is toxic tissue. It's not harmless flab, but a mass of metabolically malignant adipose tissue.
We now know that abdominal fat produces a range of noxious
chemicals called adipokines that sabotage your metabolism. These chemical messengers act like spies carrying a false message. As a result, tissues become less sensitive to insulin - producing the condition known as `insulin resistance' - and you lose control of your blood sugar; the pancreas has to pump out more insulin in order to
get a response; insulin levels go up and a vicious cycle accelerates the accumulation of abdominal fat; blood pressure rises; the balance of blood fats and cholesterol is upset; blood clots form more easily and arteries clog up.
The metabolic syndrome (Chapter 18) used to be called `Syndrome X', which makes it sound like a mysterious alien plot to wipe us out (and if it is, the aliens are enjoying a measure of success). If aliens had
implanted a toxic mass in your belly, programmed to destroy you insidiously, wouldn't you be keen to get rid of it?
You may want to slim your waist so you can look good on the
beach, or because you're fed up with buttons flying off your waistband. Quite understandable. Those are good enough reasons. But it's so much more important than that. Surely you want to do it in a way that keeps the weight off, blocking the vicious cycle and reversing the
changes that lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, blood clots and heart disease.
That's what this book is all about.
