THIS IS HOW NOT TO DIET
SO THE festive season is done and dusted – but the effects may well be lingering. Those mince pies hanging around your middle, that extra helping of trifle lolling about your love handles, all those roast potatoes bobbing along with your butt . . . Little wonder everywhere you look there are diets promising to help you kick the extra kilos.
But do yourself a favour: ignore them all.
This is the advice of renowned American nutrition expert Dr Michael Greger. In his new book, How Not to Diet, he delves deep into the leading causes of weight gain and comes up with simple, everyday ways to remedy them.
Follow his findings and you may never need to diet again, Greger says. Oh, and he’s not in it for money, he adds – the proceeds from his research website and his books go to charity.
His motivation is to see people put an end to dieting and replacing those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle.
‘EVERY month seems to bring us a trendy new diet or weight-loss fad and they always sell because they always fail. Racked with the guilt and self-hatred of failure, people often line right back up to be fooled again.
When it comes to making
