New Book for Review: Health & Fitness ... - Pump Up Your Book

Featured, books for review ? By Dorothy Thompson on September 4, 2011 at 8:43 am

Nicolette Dumke will be touring December 5 ? February 29 with her health & fitness/weight loss nonfiction book, Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss!

Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss answers the question, ?Why is it so hard to lose weight?? Because it?s hard to put a puzzle together if you?re missing some of the pieces. We?ve been missing or ignoring the most important pieces in the puzzle of how our bodies determine whether to store or burn fat. Those puzzle pieces are hormones such as insulin, cortisol, leptin, and others.

In addition, we?ve been given some puzzle pieces that don?t belong or fit in the weight-control puzzle. Much of what we?ve heard about dieting and exercise is incorrect and can cause loss of muscle mass instead of fat or even result in weight gain. The idea that weight is determined solely by ?calories in minus calories out? is an assumption not based in reality. Most weight-loss diets require us to endure hunger much of the time, but hunger means that our blood sugar is falling or low and our insulin level may be rising. Prolonged hunger leads to the release of adrenal hormones, and the hormonal cascade which follows results in the inability to burn our own body fat as well as causing any fat we eat to be stored rather than burned to give us energy.

Another problem with most weight loss diets is that they strictly dictate food choices, lack the flexibility that those on special diets for food allergies or gluten-intolerance require, and deprive us of pleasure. Individuals with food allergies face additional weight-loss challenges such as inflammation due to allergies which can lead to our master weight control hormone, leptin, being unable to do its job of maintaining a healthy weight. Those with gluten intolerance often eat a diet too high rice. Rice is the only grain which is high on the glycemic index in its whole grain form; thus eating too much of it will raise insulin levels and cause the body to deposit fat. Although the recipes in this book were developed for those on special diets, non-sensitive people will enjoy them as well, and the weight loss principles in this book will help anyone lose weight. (A chapter of recipes made with wheat and other problematic foods is included for those on unrestricted diets).

The most frustrating deficiency of conventional weight loss diets is that they don?t work long-term. Low-calorie, low-fat diets can lead to loss of muscle mass, and with less muscle to burn calories, this type of diet effectively reduces metabolic rate so we need less food. Rare is the person who loses weight by counting calories and keeps it off after they liberalize their diet! However, continual dieting for the rest of your life is not the way you need to live, and you do not have to be deprived of pleasure in order to lose weight. Overweight is not due to a lack of willpower. Rather, it is due to a chemical imbalance in our bodies. Once we begin to correct that imbalance by applying the principles in Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss, we can lose weight without hunger or deprivation and can maintain a healthy weight permanently and easily by regaining normal self-regulating hormonal control of our weight.

302 pages

You can visit her websites at www.food-allergy.org or www.foodallergyandglutenfreeweightloss.com.

If you would like to review Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss, please fill out the form below or email Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com. Please mention which date would work for you.? Deadline for inquiries end December 25 or until the tour is filled. Thank you!

Please note: We?re doing something a little different with this tour.? If you don?t choose to review it but would like to be included in Nicolette?s tour, we are asking bloggers to submit a weight loss question to Nicolette and she will answer your question for free.? The question and answer can appear on your blog in the form of a guest post.? Please let us know which date you would like to set up for this in your inquiry and the question you would like to ask Nicolette.

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