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How to Fight FATflammation!: A Revolutionary 3-Week Program to Shrink the Body's Fat Cells for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss
From a leading voice in health, nutrition, and fat-cell research comes a radical and revolutionary approach to losing weight, looking great, and achieving optimum health—simply by restoring your body's fat cells to their natural state.
Are you consistently overweight, no matter what you do? Have you tried everything? Are you plagued by stubborn fat hanging around your hips, thighs, and belly? Well, there's a reason for that. All those frustratingly pointless diets and exercise regimes have failed to address the root cause of weight gain.
According to Dr. Lori Shemek, a successful diet isn't centered on calories or cardio. She says, "Cutting calories doesn't cut it." Our problems with fat are created because we eat foods that cause the body's natural fat cells to become inflamed. Sadly, the staples of the Standard American Diet—from pasta and bread to factory-farmed chicken and cattle, from sugar and artificial sweeteners to salad dressing and soft drinks—irritate our fat cells, causing chronic inflammation and chronically oversized fat cells. This irritation causes the body to store fat permanently, no matter how hard you exercise or how diligently you cut back on calories.
Dr. Shemek calls this serious condition FATflammation, and only when you decrease the inflammation of the fat cells can you achieve the weight loss and optimum health you've been chasing. We need to forget about counting calories, counting points, fad diets, no-fat diets, and spending countless hours at the gym. There is a better and more satisfying way to lose the fat and maintain your desired weight. "If we want to fix our problems with fat," Shemek writes, "we need to reduce the inflammation in our fat cells." In How to Fight FATflammation Shemek reveals her revolutionary three-week program that helps reboot your body chemistry by returning your body's fat cells back to their natural, healthy state. In the process, she explains the critical importance of maintaining balance between good fats (omega-3) and bad fats (omega-6) and how a proper ratio of both will help boost your metabolism; in short, your body will burn fat simply by your eating the right kinds of fat. She also helps you eliminate from your diet the dreaded FATflammation Four—sugar, refined grains, high-fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners. Here's your chance to shrink your fat cells and get the body you always wanted.
Are you consistently overweight, no matter what you do? Have you tried everything? Are you plagued by stubborn fat hanging around your hips, thighs, and belly? Well, there's a reason for that. All those frustratingly pointless diets and exercise regimes have failed to address the root cause of weight gain.
According to Dr. Lori Shemek, a successful diet isn't centered on calories or cardio. She says, "Cutting calories doesn't cut it." Our problems with fat are created because we eat foods that cause the body's natural fat cells to become inflamed. Sadly, the staples of the Standard American Diet—from pasta and bread to factory-farmed chicken and cattle, from sugar and artificial sweeteners to salad dressing and soft drinks—irritate our fat cells, causing chronic inflammation and chronically oversized fat cells. This irritation causes the body to store fat permanently, no matter how hard you exercise or how diligently you cut back on calories.
Dr. Shemek calls this serious condition FATflammation, and only when you decrease the inflammation of the fat cells can you achieve the weight loss and optimum health you've been chasing. We need to forget about counting calories, counting points, fad diets, no-fat diets, and spending countless hours at the gym. There is a better and more satisfying way to lose the fat and maintain your desired weight. "If we want to fix our problems with fat," Shemek writes, "we need to reduce the inflammation in our fat cells." In How to Fight FATflammation Shemek reveals her revolutionary three-week program that helps reboot your body chemistry by returning your body's fat cells back to their natural, healthy state. In the process, she explains the critical importance of maintaining balance between good fats (omega-3) and bad fats (omega-6) and how a proper ratio of both will help boost your metabolism; in short, your body will burn fat simply by your eating the right kinds of fat. She also helps you eliminate from your diet the dreaded FATflammation Four—sugar, refined grains, high-fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners. Here's your chance to shrink your fat cells and get the body you always wanted.
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303 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2015
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January 10, 2020
A great read, very informative, practical and easy to understand. Life-changing! Really loved it and I believe Lori has a passion and a mission that she wants to achieve and that is in changing people life into a more healthy life-style. So recommended👍🏻
April 23, 2022
In general the book is OK, I think that telling people to eat whole natural foods is the way to go. I don’t think she should be telling people to take so many supplements though.
November 8, 2018
Not easy for vegetarians, clearly explained things
I was so excited about this book. It sounded exactly like my struggle. I really appreciated the explanations of insulin, ghrelin, etc. I've read several books that tried to explain this, but they were always so complicated. My only disappointment is in regard to how a vegetarian could make this work. There are three brief references to being a vegetarian. Only one entree recipe is vegetarian. Still hopeful I can switch out meat for beans or tempeh.
I was so excited about this book. It sounded exactly like my struggle. I really appreciated the explanations of insulin, ghrelin, etc. I've read several books that tried to explain this, but they were always so complicated. My only disappointment is in regard to how a vegetarian could make this work. There are three brief references to being a vegetarian. Only one entree recipe is vegetarian. Still hopeful I can switch out meat for beans or tempeh.
January 8, 2019
Of you are in the market for a book to help you lose weight, look no further than this book. It is. The true step by step manual to follow. It tells you to drink water,to exercise,to watch. your diet, and to get plenty of sleep. It encourages you not to give but to keep on trying whenever you do not succeed the first time.
This is one of the best self help books on the shelf and why it receives this rating. I will use this as a refference.
This is one of the best self help books on the shelf and why it receives this rating. I will use this as a refference.
January 8, 2025
Good enough read. Didn't realize until the end it was published in 2015. Wouldn't recommend only because I think the research has evolved since then.
March 19, 2017
Informative Read
This book gave me very helpful information about how to pursue a healthy eating and weight loss regimen. I recommend.
This book gave me very helpful information about how to pursue a healthy eating and weight loss regimen. I recommend.
September 29, 2016
Fabulous advice, so easy to read, quick read. I got several short easy lifestyle tips that I could implement right away. Dr. Shemek has a facebook group where she is very active and answers folks' questions straight away and I've learned a lot from there as well. Highly recommend you check this out if you're looking for actionable steps to make healthy lifestyle improvements.
January 26, 2017
Coining a term and using it ubiquitously throughout the book becomes irritating at some point.
Having read it less than extensively,i would support the doctor in all the advise. Apart from that I have been unable to stick to the recommendations in full. We still have a life to live beyond carrying food containers everywhere.
Having read it less than extensively,i would support the doctor in all the advise. Apart from that I have been unable to stick to the recommendations in full. We still have a life to live beyond carrying food containers everywhere.
July 18, 2017
Easy to read and understand.
I just finished reading the book and can't wait to start. She does make it seem easy and she is inspiring.
I just finished reading the book and can't wait to start. She does make it seem easy and she is inspiring.
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