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The Perfect 10 Diet: 10 Key Hormones That Hold the Secret to Losing Weight and Feeling Great-Fast!
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464 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
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March 28, 2012
Interesting information on foods to balance hormones and help migraine, but perhaps the most annoyingly condescending writer I've read in a long time. If I were an idiot I'd give the book more stars, because apparently that's the audience he's going for.
May 14, 2010
If you’ve been on a diet or two within the last, oh…twenty years, you’ve probably seen dieting come full-circle. Some programs focus on liquids, others on carbs, some on proteins and all of them basically result in a restriction of what is going in, and an increase of what you are putting out. Less food, more activity. Makes perfect sense, yet so many of us fight this concept daily.
The Perfect 10 Diet does sound a bit trendy. However, it addresses the way your body reacts to certain foods. Processed foods that are high in fat wreak havoc with your system. This program has you eating whole foods that are low-fat and low in calories, but interspersed with some good fats. The difference here, is that the healthy fats fill you up and provide your body what it needs to function properly.
I have been dealing with some health issues of my own, so although I had every intention to follow this program in its entirety, I was not able to follow it the way it should be followed due to severe food allergies. As a result, I ended up gaining a few pounds.
However, as a person who has been raised on chemicals and processed, pre-packaged foods, I can honestly tell you what little I did manage to follow, still made a difference as far as how I felt. The program makes sense. The book is well-organized and includes recipes and a supplement section for those that want to address specific health concerns.
If you are looking for a program you can live with, then The Perfect 10 Diet may be just what you are looking for.
Once my allergies are under control, I am going to re-visit the program and see what it can do for me. If you’ve followed Dr. Aziz’s program, I’d love to hear from you.
The Perfect 10 Diet does sound a bit trendy. However, it addresses the way your body reacts to certain foods. Processed foods that are high in fat wreak havoc with your system. This program has you eating whole foods that are low-fat and low in calories, but interspersed with some good fats. The difference here, is that the healthy fats fill you up and provide your body what it needs to function properly.
I have been dealing with some health issues of my own, so although I had every intention to follow this program in its entirety, I was not able to follow it the way it should be followed due to severe food allergies. As a result, I ended up gaining a few pounds.
However, as a person who has been raised on chemicals and processed, pre-packaged foods, I can honestly tell you what little I did manage to follow, still made a difference as far as how I felt. The program makes sense. The book is well-organized and includes recipes and a supplement section for those that want to address specific health concerns.
If you are looking for a program you can live with, then The Perfect 10 Diet may be just what you are looking for.
Once my allergies are under control, I am going to re-visit the program and see what it can do for me. If you’ve followed Dr. Aziz’s program, I’d love to hear from you.
August 6, 2010
Very educational about how the body works with it's hormones and how diet can effect it. It starts with a 14 day no grain/simple.refined carb diet, then goes into stage 2 where you include 1-3 whole grains a day, plus exercise. Fat is good again, butter, coconut and olive oil ! The body needs the fat to absorb certain nutrients and utilize hormones. No, sugar, no refined carbs, no processed food, nothing you can't pronounce as far as ingredients, and to my horror no caffeine. Simple, common sense diet rules. I do believe if I ate this way I would be healthier, but give up my croissant and coffee ?? No say it's not so.
August 22, 2017
Although I wouldn't follow everything Dr. Aziz says in this book, his recommendations to eat full fat dairy instead of low-fat makes a lot of sense to me, and I'm excited to try out a lot of his suggestions.
For those who are less familiar, he has a really great section on the glycemic index of common foods in the back, which I think would be really helpful for people who are beginners.
I hesitate to call his book mainly common sense, because our culture's readily available foods are frequently so different from our real nutritional needs, but I did find it a helpful reminder. And hey, not bad for a free Kindle book!
For those who are less familiar, he has a really great section on the glycemic index of common foods in the back, which I think would be really helpful for people who are beginners.
I hesitate to call his book mainly common sense, because our culture's readily available foods are frequently so different from our real nutritional needs, but I did find it a helpful reminder. And hey, not bad for a free Kindle book!
January 11, 2010
This book took 8 years to write, and presents a very good case for why the "low fat" and "high protein" diets don't work with a good number of people. It's written in a friendly and interesting way, and if you're looking for answers as to why you can't lose weight and keep it off in spite of strictly following dietary guidelines and faithful exercising, your answers might be found here. The eating plan is simple and does not require a lot of exotic foods or time consuming recipes. It's so easy to read that I finished it in one day.
July 14, 2010
This book was the first diet book, and I've read plenty, that really made sense! Balancing your hormones, eating foods without all the artificial chemicals we so often find, and skipping the fat-free and low-fat labels...finally! I felt like the book was written for me. And I'm not just saying that. I'm going to put this book into action and see if what I think makes sense actually works for me. Wish me luck!
September 27, 2012
I think this is a great diet and a very interesting read as well. At times it is a bit repetitive, but still very easy to understand and follow. Dr. Aziz has great advice and has come up with a good diet plan.
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May 16, 2012I've stopped at page 57 and I'm going to revisit this later when I feel like I'm "ready" for a lifestyle change of this magnitude. He makes some very good points that I'm interested in exploring.
January 14, 2020
The Perfect 10 is a bit more scientific than the gimmicky name suggests, but I wish it had more information about the hormones and what foods/nutrients impact them. I was looking for more detail about eating for hormone health and wanted to understand the why. This book does have detailed food guidelines though, so following the diet shouldn’t be hard, but I personally was just interested in more information about hormones.
January 26, 2020
If you struggle with losing weight, wacky hormones and have been on every diet ever, then you need to read this book. It’s a sustainable and healthy diet aka way of eating that you can and should stick to for life. We shouldn’t have to learn the things in this book but unfortunately big companies and marketing rule over the health of the people. This book will teach you what you need to know when it comes to eating healthy.
January 21, 2016
Finally - a balanced lifestyle approach to eating which is neither low-fat (most diets) or drastically low-carb (Atkins). Dr. Aziz takes time to explain the purpose of our 10 key hormones and how they react to improper nutrition. Makes perfect sense and looks like a fairly easy to follow approach.
I would have rated this book 5 stars but for one key omission (at least in the version I read). It was conspicuously absent of portion guidance. For example, if the ideal daily carb intake is 40% complex carbs, 40% fat, and 20% protein, what do the meals look like at various weight levels? Most dieters struggle with portion control, so the absence of portion guidance was frustrating.
Another omission or lack of tying up loose ends was that in a sample meal plan, not all the dishes had a corresponding recipe in the book. Crab cakes, for instance. Or squash soup. Maybe there is an updated edition that answers these inconsistencies.
Anyway, Dr. Aziz's explanations are easy to understand, well based and documented, and make a lot of sense.
I would have rated this book 5 stars but for one key omission (at least in the version I read). It was conspicuously absent of portion guidance. For example, if the ideal daily carb intake is 40% complex carbs, 40% fat, and 20% protein, what do the meals look like at various weight levels? Most dieters struggle with portion control, so the absence of portion guidance was frustrating.
Another omission or lack of tying up loose ends was that in a sample meal plan, not all the dishes had a corresponding recipe in the book. Crab cakes, for instance. Or squash soup. Maybe there is an updated edition that answers these inconsistencies.
Anyway, Dr. Aziz's explanations are easy to understand, well based and documented, and make a lot of sense.
October 15, 2012
I think there is something to this....
about how we are eating the wrong foods, in the wrong amounts, how we need to balance 10 important hormones, how we need to eat 40% carbohydrates, 20% protein, and 40% fat.
My main concern is that he says we should throw out our nonfat items, skim milk, etc and go for the full fat ones, and he still maintains that it HELPS lower cholesterol and causes you to lose weight. Having grown up with the mindset of having to not eat ANY fat, it is hard to think the opposite has the greatest effect.
But I will admit, the whole thing sounds like it works...but you would have to have the support and cooperation of everyone in the household to do it successfully. My husband would never go for eating red meat only once every three weeks or so.
I am intrigued, and would maybe like to buy this in hard copy so I could flip through it and study it some more!!!
about how we are eating the wrong foods, in the wrong amounts, how we need to balance 10 important hormones, how we need to eat 40% carbohydrates, 20% protein, and 40% fat.
My main concern is that he says we should throw out our nonfat items, skim milk, etc and go for the full fat ones, and he still maintains that it HELPS lower cholesterol and causes you to lose weight. Having grown up with the mindset of having to not eat ANY fat, it is hard to think the opposite has the greatest effect.
But I will admit, the whole thing sounds like it works...but you would have to have the support and cooperation of everyone in the household to do it successfully. My husband would never go for eating red meat only once every three weeks or so.
I am intrigued, and would maybe like to buy this in hard copy so I could flip through it and study it some more!!!
March 27, 2012
i really liked the beginning of the book. the information seems to be sound from what i remember from college. the last 3 or so chapters (of actual reading) it rather dull and dry. it just seems to be lists of what i should be asking my doctor to check, which i will probably never do. i do understand why it's there, i would just prefer it to be more of an appendix rather than actual chapters.
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March 22, 2016Wow!I was a bit skeptic when I first saw this book? I was thinking that it could be just one of those million books about diet that says the same things over and over again. But as I browse and went along, I have come to appreciate the things that Dr. Aziz mentioned in this book. Being diagnosed with hypothyroidism, I am confronted with many issues related to weight loss/weight management. Most of the topics being discussed in this book made sense. This book will surely help a lot of people.
August 30, 2011
This book was very annoying. The ideas are fine, as they are consistent with some other nutrition books I've read recently, but the writing is horrible. The author talks to the reader as if they haven't read a nutrition book in 20 years, and kept repeating things over and over again. Yes, I already know that low fat is bad, don't keep telling me that like I've never heard it before.
February 23, 2013
Really good approach of what you eat and how your body reacts to it. I'm following this diet now and i can feel i have more energy than ever and losing weight already. The only thing that bothers me a little is that its tipically an american book. A lot of repeats and a little too enthousiastic. Or maybe, as a non american, i do bother.
June 15, 2015
A good guide if you've never really looked into what's in your food, how fad diets fail, why we are becoming more and more obese. If you're already familiar with these things, you can skim through and still pick up some useful information about chemicals in food and how they interact with our bodies. Decent reference book, but not something I'd pick up and read again without direct cause.
January 4, 2016
Has put together many researched facts in one book about our food. The short coming of the book is that there is more research since it is written-- one example of this is the information on agave syrup/nectar which is highly processed fructose. But it is a good source of research based information on nutrition.
February 9, 2012
This book sucked. It was okay...same as many others in its class but then he went and said pumpkin has no fiber. Okay. Google that. If this guy can get that wrong...he lost all credibility in my book and I stopped reading it there and then.
March 8, 2012
good nutrition advice and it really explains why you have eat right and the physiological hormonal basis behind it. My only gripe with it is Azizi's grating tone and a bit of salesman pitch in it. Great advice nevertheless.
February 16, 2013
Wow! I never understood the role that fats play in hormone regulation. I'm sure that the 80's notion of low-fat and the 90's low carb Zeitgeist has left me in middle age sick and tired. I didn't like the Bo-Derrick image but read anyway, and I'm glad I did!
July 5, 2016
Really like what this book had to say. I believe sugar makes you fat and eliminating that from your diet will help you lose weight. Very informative, almost a little too technical, but I got the message and recommend this book.
May 23, 2015
This book does a really good job explaining how eating the wrong foods can play an adverse effect on the body regarding how hormones come into effect. I applied the knowledge in this book and lost 20 pounds instantly.
June 30, 2010
Really good, definetly reccomend. I skipped through all the personal stories, I didn't try any of the recipes, but the info in the book is enlightening.
July 19, 2010
I heard this guy on the radio and had to read more... very interesting. Some good ideas for keeping your body in balance. Every little bit helps.
May 26, 2017
I think this book is a really good read. Anyone who needs nutrition or diet-related advice will appreciate this book. Dr. Aziz really knows his stuff.
January 11, 2011
Eye opener. I follow some of these guidelines to this day.
September 16, 2011
Absolutely amazing facts & information in this book! Let's get healthy!
November 11, 2011
Really interesting and useful book - less of a "diet" book and more of a lifestyle book.
January 29, 2012
It says some good things giving recommendations to eat clean, etc but what bothered me is some of the misleading information with sweeping scientific conclusions
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