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Fast Diets For Dummies
Lose weight with the Fast Diets? Easy!
Over the last few decades, food fads have come and gone, but the standard medical advice on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle has stayed much the eat low-fat foods, exercise more, and never, ever skip meals. Yet, over that same period, levels of obesity worldwide have soared. So is there a different, evidence-based approach? Yes! Fast Diets are the revolutionary part-time weight loss programs with lifelong health and anti-aging results. Fast Diets For Dummies is your hands-on, friendly guide to achieving weight loss, without having to endlessly deprive yourself. Inside, you’ll get the lowdown on easily incorporating one or all of these unique dietary programs into your busy life. You will get the lowdown on tackling the most popular fasting diets such The Fast Diet (5-2 Diet), Intermittent Fasting, Micro-Fasting, and One Meal a Day (Warrior Diet). It offers you information and tips on how to incorporate these unique and popular dietary programs into your busy daily life.
Over the last few decades, food fads have come and gone, but the standard medical advice on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle has stayed much the eat low-fat foods, exercise more, and never, ever skip meals. Yet, over that same period, levels of obesity worldwide have soared. So is there a different, evidence-based approach? Yes! Fast Diets are the revolutionary part-time weight loss programs with lifelong health and anti-aging results. Fast Diets For Dummies is your hands-on, friendly guide to achieving weight loss, without having to endlessly deprive yourself. Inside, you’ll get the lowdown on easily incorporating one or all of these unique dietary programs into your busy life. You will get the lowdown on tackling the most popular fasting diets such The Fast Diet (5-2 Diet), Intermittent Fasting, Micro-Fasting, and One Meal a Day (Warrior Diet). It offers you information and tips on how to incorporate these unique and popular dietary programs into your busy daily life.
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First published January 1, 2013
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January 13, 2020
FAST DIETS FOR DUMMIES by Kellyann Petrucci starts strong. It introduces you to the basic concepts of fasting. Which is not as people often fear, starvation, but a conscious choice to abstain for food for a set amount of time. Petrucci then goes on to proselytize "why" you should fast, highlighting the many benefits.
She also does a great job outlining the many approaches to fasting. And gives basic advice on healthy eating and creating a fitness plan.
HOWEVER... there are major issues here. First off, Petrucci seems wed to the Paleo diet, recommending it in a one-size-fits-all diet. However, there are problems, though, with the Paleo diet, and why USA Today's panel of nutrition experts rank it near the bottom of its diets. I'm all for some of its precepts (like removing highly processed food and focusing on whole food), but to recommend a diet that's high in meat and pretends that legumes and grains are bad "because some caveman or other didn't eat them" is silly pseudoscientific twaddle. Worse, eating the high-meat Paleo way is not sustainable for the planet.
She also hits other dumb notes that I guess diet and exercise books MUST contain, according to the publishing odds. There are plenty of vapid, warmed-over self-help nuggets to "motivate" you. Like visualizing your success, a thinner you, etc. These may help, and may not, but I often find this new agey "think and grow rich/ thin/ attractive" unsupportable. And not scientifically valid, but near dogmatic beliefs.
This belief that you "build your own reality" by "sending vibes into your universe" often runs very close to victim-blaming. To take a non-trivial example, that's like blaming a poor Appalachian, with zero employment know-how save mining, for being laid off when their job is automated away. To the "you build your own reality crowd, these people and not the vulture capitalist culture that favors Wall Street returns at Main Street's success is just wrong. Because it ignores the very real cultural milieu and political policies that conspired to make these workers unemployable. Further, it absolves us from trying to find a solution that will help them live better, more fulfilling, economically viable lives when it's "their fault" that some beancounter a thousand miles away determined that profits were more important than the people.
Anti-rah-rah aside, I know this is common in health books. But I've trying to end the practice!
Overall, the book's three-stars. Decent info, and clear description of a mulitudes of ways to fast out there. And a decent overview of the benefits.
She also does a great job outlining the many approaches to fasting. And gives basic advice on healthy eating and creating a fitness plan.
HOWEVER... there are major issues here. First off, Petrucci seems wed to the Paleo diet, recommending it in a one-size-fits-all diet. However, there are problems, though, with the Paleo diet, and why USA Today's panel of nutrition experts rank it near the bottom of its diets. I'm all for some of its precepts (like removing highly processed food and focusing on whole food), but to recommend a diet that's high in meat and pretends that legumes and grains are bad "because some caveman or other didn't eat them" is silly pseudoscientific twaddle. Worse, eating the high-meat Paleo way is not sustainable for the planet.
She also hits other dumb notes that I guess diet and exercise books MUST contain, according to the publishing odds. There are plenty of vapid, warmed-over self-help nuggets to "motivate" you. Like visualizing your success, a thinner you, etc. These may help, and may not, but I often find this new agey "think and grow rich/ thin/ attractive" unsupportable. And not scientifically valid, but near dogmatic beliefs.
This belief that you "build your own reality" by "sending vibes into your universe" often runs very close to victim-blaming. To take a non-trivial example, that's like blaming a poor Appalachian, with zero employment know-how save mining, for being laid off when their job is automated away. To the "you build your own reality crowd, these people and not the vulture capitalist culture that favors Wall Street returns at Main Street's success is just wrong. Because it ignores the very real cultural milieu and political policies that conspired to make these workers unemployable. Further, it absolves us from trying to find a solution that will help them live better, more fulfilling, economically viable lives when it's "their fault" that some beancounter a thousand miles away determined that profits were more important than the people.
Anti-rah-rah aside, I know this is common in health books. But I've trying to end the practice!
Overall, the book's three-stars. Decent info, and clear description of a mulitudes of ways to fast out there. And a decent overview of the benefits.
August 17, 2018
Picked this up from the library. Was particularly interested in later chapters on exercising in a fasted state. It was quite repetitive but there were points I was interested in reading and learning their recommendations for pairing fasting, exercise & meal times. Chapters 14 & 15 ways to Stave of Hunger & ten ways to stay motivated, we’re good. I liked their motivational tips. Glad I browsed this book.
May 21, 2018
Fast Diets is quite helpful if you are fasting. Plenty of options are given and it’s nice to know one of the authors is a doctor. It can be repetitive at times but considering the scope the authors undertake and the topic, repetition can be a plus.
August 29, 2025
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بعد مدتی احساس سبکی و انرژی خوبی داشتم
زمانی که فست رو کنار گذاشتم و با اون شدت دنبال نکردم انرژیمم کاهش پیدا کرد.
در کل کتاب کاملیه که به این موضوع در تمامی جنبهها پرداخته.
January 19, 2014
Interesting concepts. . . I've always found that when I eat the breakfast everyone say I should, I end up eating more that day. Now I feel "approved" to wait a few hours to eat and then eat something small. Not sure about all of it, but some of it is interesting.
July 12, 2015
The health benefits of giving the body a break from digestion. Multiple stratagies include 1 day per week to fitting 3 meals into an 8 hour period each day.
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