Love Your Body: Lose Weight, Live Longer and Look Younger A New Diet Paradigm
by John S. Griffin
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Pub Date 29 Sep 2017 | Archive Date 5 Feb 2018
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Description
For nearly twenty years, healthy diet, nutrition, and fitness have been a big part of my life. My passion is researching how food and exercise can reprogram our body’s genes, mitochondria, and cellular health.
I am currently Certified as a Health Coach and Personal Trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine. I enjoy helping people understand how they can make healthy changes to their lifestyle to improve their quality of life and their overall health.
Twenty years ago my Grandparents died from complications of Type-2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. From that time I have focused on finding the best nutritional solutions for diseases. I learned that most chronic diseases have the same underlying causes and they are reversible with a healthy diet and exercise program.
Recent science points toward dysfunctional mitochondria as the cause for most chronic diseases. That means that diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, Alzheimer's disease and cancer are metabolic in nature. Pharmaceutical companies and health authorities will not come clean on this issue because it impacts their bottom line. The truth is that drugs will not cure most chronic diseases. The cure lies in addressing the problem at the cellular level through diet and exercise.
After spending countless hours reading through clinical trials, Epidemiological studies and dozens of books on diet, nutrition, and aging, I could see that our current diet paradigm is corrupt. The information supplied to us by respected health organizations and our government is proven to be incomplete or contrary to recent research.
The food companies and the pharmaceutical companies are trying to subdue research that points the way toward an end to our current health crisis. By creating fake news and generating research to contradict independent studies, they hope to perpetuate the existing diet paradigm which is contributing to our plague of chronic diseases.
The conflicts of interest that are built into how we raise, manufacture, distribute and inform people about food are killing millions of people each year. The government agencies that we rely on to protect us from unhealthy foods are underfunded and heavily influenced by the industries they regulate.
Love Your Body, will help you take control of your health. Love Your Body, explains how food is much more than calories, carbohydrates, proteins, and fat. Food is software that we consume several times each day. This software tells our body how to function. Food dictates which genes, enzymes, hormones, cytokines, micro-bacteria, and neurotransmitters are activated. A simple choice at meal time can significantly alter your health and the course of your life.
Love Your Body also helps you implement simple, actionable steps to take control of your health. Progress, not perfection is the guiding principle. By making incremental changes, you can regain control over your health and your weight. When you take the steps outlined in the pages of Love Your Body, you will also feel more energized, and you will look years younger. When your body is healthy, you radiate youthful vitality.
Advance Praise
"Love Your Body: Lose Weight, Live Longer and Look Younger a New Diet Paradigm is a very well written Health and Life Improvement book. This book is intelligent, wise and packed to the rafters with practical common-sense advice. It becomes very obvious as you read through this page turner that the author is imparting his wisdom and understanding as to what happiness and health really means. It’s an excellent guide for putting things into perspective and may well be a potential life changer for those who read it."
"If you struggle with weight gain and feel signs of getting older; and you desire to achieve and maintain a healthy strong body. Then, this is the book for you; as it offers a comprehensive guide that’ll change how you think about health and what you think is healthy. Additionally, the book provides steps on diet and exercise that’ll allow you to make your own program that is right for your body; and will get you 1000 steps closer to achieving your goal. When reading the book I could tell there was a lot of research that went into it: based on the information shared and how it was presented. I really liked that the author cited reference materials and used actual facts to make a compelling case for advice he shared in the book."
Featured Reviews
Nathan A, Reviewer
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Books Go Social/Net Gallery. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
Anytime one reads a book on diet and nutrition and health in general [1], it is worthwhile to take note of what approach the author has concerning health and what his or her agenda is. There is always going to be an agenda, and usually the agenda of the author is to set himself or herself as an authority on good health with some kind of radical ideal that will provide better health across a wide variety of health issues, including weight, blood pressure, diabetes, and related concerns. This author of this book certainly has an agenda, and he has a lot of negative things to say about the official line on health that is promoted by the FDA. Admittedly, this is not too surprising as the uncomfortable relationship between food regulation and companies like Monsanto in the United States is something that would make few people feel confident about the truthfulness and competence of our government to make suitable health regulations for diet, which this book focuses on. As to whether or not this author's agenda is a good one, the jury is definitely still out on that one.
This book of about two hundred pages is focused on diet and exercise, as one would expect with this type of book, but it leans heavily on diet. The author begins by talking about ways to think about food and some of the sources of diet confusion in food politics and business. After that the author has some critical things to say about modern medicine and a lot to say about contemporary scientific debates regarding healthy diets, including the proliferation of Mediterranean diets as well as various low-cab diets--one of which the book reveals the author to be largely in support of, specifically the ketogenic diet. After that the author spends several chapters talking about sugars, grains, fats and oils, and how one cannot judge food by its label because much about its context matters a great deal in how healthy it is. At this point the author transitions to talking about clean eating and the need to make changes gradually so that they do not become overwhelming, showing how small changes over time can be leveraged into considerable health benefits. It is at this point that the author talks about a variety of exercises that are meant to help someone lose weight around the belly while also building strength, which makes sense since the author is a bodybuilder.
To be sure, the author has a lot of wise advice to give about food and exercise that would likely improve the health of many people who read this book and takes its counsel. The author also does a good job in lowering the stress level that people would have about the level of improvement and closeness to perfect that people would need to adopt a healthier view towards their diet and exercise in the author's mindset, an important aspect of what makes so many diets so difficult to continue on for the long-term. Even so, there is much to question about concerning the author's approach, as he seems somewhat inconsistent in his hostility towards contemporary authorities in science and medicine while also seeking to draw authority from science and medicine where possible, especially in other nations like Israel. The author's evolutionary paradigm is also certainly a dubious one, as it tends to focus attention on supposedly drastic changes in diet rather than the harmfulness of what is changed, as if the human body could develop, if given enough times, the means of digesting properly the sort of poisons and toxins that are inflicted upon us by the companies and institutions we rely upon to bring us safe food from the farm to the kitchen or restaurant. As is often the case with books like this, there is some wise advice here and some folly, and one must be discerning in sifting among them and judicious in applying the author's supposed insights.
[1] See, for example:
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017/04/07/book-review-what-the-bible-says-about-healthy-living/
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2015/12/03/book-review-a-more-excellent-way-to-be-in-health/
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017/12/13/book-review-the-colorful-kitchen/
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017/12/13/book-review-the-healing-powers-of-tea/
Sissy H, Reviewer
Love Your Body: Lose Weight, Live Longer and Look Younger A New Diet Paradigm
John S. Griffin
This book doesn't lay out a written down plan but it goes further by giving you the information to help you make better decisions. It goes over some of the Diet Confusion, sugar, what Healthy whole grains and goes over some of the food labels. It also goes of the heath issue brought on by weight issues. This book was very good in education me on some of the question I had about dieting. Knowledge helps when making decision about what is the best way for you to loose weight and I felt the book helped me to understand what I needed better.
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