The Coconut Diet: The Secret Ingredient That Helps You Lose Weight While You Eat Your Favorite Foods (Kindle Edition)
By Cherie Calbom
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THE TRUTH CAN MAKE YOU SLIM! Thousands of people are discovering what islanders have known for centuries: coconut oil has amazing health and weight loss benefits. Rich in healthy fats that boost your metabolism, curb cravings, and keep hunger at bay, coconut oil makes most weight loss programs-even low-carbohydrate diets-more efficient. Now you can lose weight and boost your health by adding this secret ingredient to the foods you already love. ADD A SMALL AMOUNT OF COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET AND WATCH THE POUNDS MELT AWAY With an exciting 21-day weight loss program, simple meal plans, and more than 70 delicious, satisfying recipes, THE COCONUT DIET can help you drop those extra pounds. You'll feel better, look better, and be able to maintain your new weight with ease. No other diet delivers as much as... THE COCONUT DIET. A slight variation on the standard low carb theme, The Coconut Diet's biggest strength is the recipes. Author Cherie Calbom (The Ultimate Smoothie Book) includes a wide range of easy, deeply flavorful sauces, soups and condiments that will keep the interest of the pickiest palate while still following the fairly strict limitations of the accompanying diet.
While the ostensible goal is weight loss, many of the chapters concern themselves with the varied symptoms of poor health--low energy, general aches and pains and digestive troubles particularly. Suggestions for feeling better center around cleansing juice fasts, supplements, and colonics, along with a recommendation of adding virgin coconut oil (a saturated fat created with medium-chain triglycerides) to each meal, for a total of two to three tablespoons every day. A healthy fat with a bad reputation, it does have the benefit of helping you feel full during a limited-calorie diet--and if you find that it lives up to the somewhat miraculous claims outlined in the book, so much the better.
Aimed more at folks trying to achieve a point of basic health rather than already active people working towards optimum fitness, many of the chapters shun allopathic health care, claiming that many standard tests aren't up to scratch and that proper diagnosis can be achieved by attending to your symptoms. For readers who are open to looking at a range of possible solutions to their health issues, the naturopathic ideas offered here may well provide assistance--but whether a single tropical oil can measure up to all the claims is something lab scientists and natural nutritionists will argue about for some time to come. Jill Lightner Read more
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