The Coconut Oil Miracle or Kim Lyons Your Body Your Life

The Coconut Oil Miracle

Author: Bruce Fif

Use nature's elixir to lose weight, prevent heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, and beautify skin and hair.

Can saturated fat be good for you?

Natural coconut oil-not the hydrogenated version often found in processed foods-is a saturated fat, but not the kind your doctor has warned you about. Studies have shown that this uniquely curative oil actually has innumerable health benefits ranging from disease prevention to anti-aging. Now, in his revised edition of the first book to describe the therapeutic properties of coconut oil, Bruce Fife offers a nutrition plan with dozens of tasty recipes that will allow anyone to experience the healing miracles of what he deems the "perfect food."

When taken as a supplement, used in cooking, or applied to directly to the skin, coconut oil has been found to:

- Promote weight loss
- Help protect against heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and many other degenerative diseases
- Strengthen the immune system
- Improve digestion
- Prevent premature aging of the skin

Author Biography: Dr. Bruce Fife, C.N., N.D., a certified nutritionist and naturopathic doctor, is the director of the southern Colorado chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nutritional education. As president of the Coconut Research Center, he educates the public about the health and nutritional aspects of coconut. He has written numerous health and nutrition books including Eat Fat Look Thin.

Interesting textbook:

Kim Lyons' Your Body, Your Life

Author: Kim Lyons

On NBC's hit TV show The Biggest Loser, trainer Kim Lyons encouraged, cajoled, and inspired her team members to change their lives. And they did, not only losing an incredible amount of weight in the process, but gaining a world of knowledge about fitness, nutrition, and enjoying an all-around healthy lifestyle. Now Kim is leading the way again, ready to work that same magic on everyone. Her totally life-changing new guide, bursting with color illustrations, presents Kim's tested program for optimizing your health… in just 12 short weeks! You'll feel almost as if she's right there, working with you.

Kim, who received her personal training certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, puts her time-tested, fat-burning circuit-training system and solid, comprehensive nutrition plan right at your fingertips. She understands the psychological and practical barriers facing those starting a new program, and offers simple strategies to help anyone adopt and maintain a healthier lifestyle. Every aspect of fitness and nutrition is explained, such as the role of genetics, metabolism, and body type in achieving success; the importance of meal planning and journaling; and how to exercise to maximize your time and increase your calorie burn. To illustrate her key points, many of Lyons' clients tell their uplifting personal stories, and Lyons herself answers a wide range of "burning questions." At the end of each chapter, a "Homework" section sets out several goals to achieve be they mental, physical, or emotional that reinforce key points learned in that chapter.

With Kim as your guide and motivator, you'll start exercising, eating correctly, and slimming down immediately, laying the foundation for a new lifestyle today!

Marcia Welsh - Library Journal

Lyons was a personal trainer for years before she was asked to become a trainer on the popular NBC reality television program The Biggest Loser, in which overweight contestants compete to lose weight. The fitness plan she describes here involves three increasingly challenging levels of circuit training (cardio, resistance training, and flexibility training); a nutrition plan based on high-quality complex carbohydrates, lean proteins, and healthy fats; and a basic focus on goals, positive attitude, and journal keeping. Lyons clearly describes and illustrates (with photographs of the fit author) dozens of exercises and shares several of her clients' individual weight-loss experiences throughout. Information and motivation are key to a successful fitness program, and Lyons provides both in this helpful new book. Recommended for public libraries. (High-quality final photographs not seen.)

Table of Contents:

Foreword   John Kasik     iv
Foreword   Micheal A. Clark     v
Acknowledgments     vi
Prologue     viii
It's All About You!     1
Your Gear     2
Your Body, From the Inside Out     5
Your Mind     15
Your Goals     21
Your Journals     29
Your Fitness     35
Your Workout!     45
Understand It     46
Plan It     52
Work It     59
Moves     63
Moves     95
Moves     127
Stretching Moves     159
Injury Prevention     175
Your Nutrition!     183
The Bad Fad     184
Back to Basics     190
Beyond the Basics     196
The Deal with Meals     206
Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning     214
Kim's Recipes     222
Your Future!     241
Reassess and Reevaluate     242
Glitches and Gains     248
Maintaining Motivation     256
Epilogue     260
Index     261