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The 7 Principles of Fat Burning: Get Healthy, Lose Weight and Keep It Off! | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Berg
Publisher: Action Publishing (Glendale, CA)
Category: Book
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 4332
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1888045558
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781888045550
ASIN: 1888045558
Publication Date: February 15, 2008
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Product Description
The 7 Principles of Fat Burning is the handbook to the sensational Berg Diet that has empowered thousands of people to get healthy, lose weight and keep it off. It shows how to activate your fat-burning hormones with a tailor-made eating and exercise plan for your body type. The 7 Principles is a highly practical book that provides clear explanations--aided by dozens of charts and illustrations--of the principles of healthy weight loss. Easy-to-understand health and nutrition information and simple tests to determine your correct body type are the keys to its success. Knowledge is power and The 7 Principles of Fat Burning gives dieters the power to take command by eating the healthy diet that activates the fat-burning hormones for their body type. For years people have been told to lose weight to be healthy. The truth is, you need to get healthy to lose weight. The 7 Principles of Fat Burning shows you how. Dr. Berg thoroughly educates readers and puts them right where they should be: in charge of their own weight.
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 Helpful December 22, 2008
This book has a lot of helpful information and healthy tips for weight loss and overall health.
 Excellent, Simple and Effective! November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was SO easy to read. I loved the humor and the flow. I must say, the glossary made a world of difference and I feel like I understand my own body for the first time. I love that I'm not tied down to a diet but now understand what to do to keep my body in fat burning.
I realize I've been exhausting myself trying to lose weight and getting sicker and more tired as a result. With this program, I lost those last 13 pounds and really boosted my energy up.
Until I read this book, I didn't realize how few pictures and graphics are in other books. Reading this one, with all the images, was so fast and easy. I've read several parts of it more than once and share it with all my friends.
I strongly urge anyone interested in imporving their health to give this book a read. But hide it, because your friends will "borrow" it and you may not see it again!
The best book ever regarding weight loss. October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very informative and educational. I like the way Dr. Eric Berg explains the reasoning behind his research and study. After reading this book I put Dr. Berg's principles into practice and lost 4 lbs within the 1st week.
I highly recommend this book to anyone serious about losing weight and ready to commit to a healthier life style change.
7 Principles of Fat Burning September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book provides the key to losing weight for any body type. After reading this book, I became a patient of Dr. Berg because his knowledge and understanding of how to feed different bodies teaches the individual how to return to a healthier being. I learned that your body has to become healthy again before it will lose fat. If you are really looking for the way to transform your body without starving or purchasing specialty diet products, this is the one! My husband and I are both experiencing results from following advice from this book and are much healthier in the process.
Better for your health than Weight-Watchers, and more effective September 10, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Warning: If you follow Dr. Berg's plan properly, you will need to cut out alcohol, coffee, tea, processed foods, sweets, pastries, breads, grains, potatoes (i.e., most carbs), and junk food of any kind, i.e., 90% of what makes up the average American supermarket, and average American diet. Can you handle it? This book might not be for you.
On the good side, you do not need to cut calories, you can eat fatty foods like avocados and olive oil, don't need to worry about the fats in meats (within reason), eat as many eggs as you want, you must not let yourself get hungry, don't necessarily have to exercise that strenuously or that often, and when you reach your goal, you can add back some of those foods you cut out originally (except the really bad stuff).
I learned about this book because my chiropractor uses it. The title emphasizes fat-burning, but early on he makes it clear that gaining weight is just one of many symptoms resulting from a body out of health, because one or more of your organs are unhealthy and poorly functioning. He focuses on adrenal glands, thyroid glands, the liver and ovaries. This state of poor health is due to the average American diet - high in refined carbohydrates and toxic chemicals added to the meats and vegetables we eat, and to our over-stressed life-styles and sleep deprivation.
Over the last few years from my mid 30s to mid 40s, I've had a number of annoying symptoms building up more and more that doctors have shrugged their shoulders about and sent me on my way: chronic sinus headaches, allergic rhinitis, ringing ears, gradual development of food sensitivities (can't eat bread or anything with wheat now), endometriosis and ovarian cysts, chronic fatigue, chronic anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and weight gain around the middle are a few. I tried following the reduce-calories-and-exercise-more doctrine for the weight gain, and after a year I was exactly the same weight as before. None of these things made any sense, based on all the stuff I was reading about how to lose weight. I couldn't figure out what to do about the other stuff either. So when I read Eric Berg's book, I could not put it down!! He explained every one of those symptoms - why they happen, and what you can do about it! I was so excited! Finally! Someone understands!! So I'm not going crazy! It was almost like he knew me!
The book is very clearly written and very easy to follow. The author does tend to be repetitive, though. Some people might be put off and think there is too much to wade through, but actually, a lot of it is just explaining the same thing over again in a different context.
You need to determine what body type you are at the beginning: adrenal/ovary or liver/thyroid. You do this by taking a questionnaire of your symptoms. Weight gain is one of the symptoms, and the shape of your body is indicative of which glands or organs are not functioning well. Then you follow the meal plans and exercise for that body type. What is interesting is that if you are an adrenal/ovary type (like me) you shouldn't do high impact exercise if you're trying to lose weight as that will stress the adrenals more, and is more likely to lead to more fat being deposited rather than fat burning. Instead you should do a low impact, aerobic workout. So that explains why I was never able to lose weight with exercise until now.
I have been following the diet for 3 weeks now, starting with the 14 day Liver Enhancement diet, which is supposed to be almost entirely raw vegetables and fruit. Reading all the reviews other people wrote, I think most people are not as bad as I am with their adrenal function, because after 3 weeks I only lost 3 lbs of water-retention, and no fat loss. He explains that adrenal types tend not to lose too much weight right at the beginning and explains why. However, my body's pH went from a 5 (way too acidic) to a 7 (perfect!). He explains why you need to have a more alkaline (pH 7) body for long-term health and weight loss. No long-term weight loss unless you take care of the pH problem, folks. And it is eating all that veg that does it (plus the cruciferous supplements if you want to speed the process along). I should add that the only reason I know about my adrenal fatigue and pH values is because my chiropractor and holistic MD did tests.
One further word of advice for anyone who tries this who is also suffering from adrenal fatigue. You might feel really exhausted, heavy-limbed and light-headed when you start the Liver Enhancement diet. Some people from the other reviews seem to have felt better straight away. You might not. For some people it might take a while. That's what happened to me. I had to add meat back in in order to make it from day to day, which is what he suggests for the adrenal/ovary types. However, I do now have much better sleep!!! and my sex drive is back, and I am amazed to say I am not craving chocolate and cookies with tea/coffee any more!! I couldn't go through a day without a chocolate and tea break. So just bear that in mind. You might think you could never stop drinking coffee or eating bread, but you might be surprised... Any way, the nice thing is, once you have reached the state of health and weight loss you want (could take a few months, don't expect instant results) you can start adding those things back into your diet again if you want - though he points out that most people are less interested in junk food once they are healthy as it is being unhealthy that makes you crave these things in the first place.
I would suggest everyone should read this book. Whether you follow the plan or not is up to you, but you should be aware of how and in what way our diet and life-style can cause us ill health and weight gain, and know there is something you can do about it if you choose to.
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