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The Whole Body Reset: Your Weight-Loss Plan for a Flat Belly, Optimum Health & a Body You'll Love at Midlife and Beyond
Stop-and even reverse!-age-related weight gain and muscle loss with the first-ever weight-loss plan specifically designed to shrink your belly, extend your life, and create your healthiest self at mid-life and beyond.
You don't have to gain weight as you age. That's the simple yet revolutionary promise of The Whole Body Reset, which uncovers why standard diet and exercise advice stops working for us as we approach midlife-and reveals how simple changes to the way we eat can halt, and even reverse, age-related weight gain and muscle loss.
The Whole Body Reset presents stunning new evidence about the power of "protein timing" for people at midlife-research that blows away current government guidelines, refutes the myth of slowing metabolisms and "inevitable" weight gain, and changes the way people in their mid-forties and older should think about food. The Whole Body Reset explains in simple, inspiring terms exactly how our bodies change with age, and how eating to accommodate those changes can make us respond to exercise as if we were twenty to thirty years younger.
Developed by AARP, tested by a panel of more than 100 AARP employees, and approved by an international board of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness experts, The Whole Body Reset doesn't use diet phases, eating windows, calorie restriction, or other trendy gimmicks. Its six simple secrets and scores of recipes are easy to follow, designed for real people living in the real world. A dining guide even shows how to follow this program in popular restaurants from McDonald's to Starbucks to Olive Garden. And best of all: It works!
You don't have to gain weight as you age. That's the simple yet revolutionary promise of The Whole Body Reset, which uncovers why standard diet and exercise advice stops working for us as we approach midlife-and reveals how simple changes to the way we eat can halt, and even reverse, age-related weight gain and muscle loss.
The Whole Body Reset presents stunning new evidence about the power of "protein timing" for people at midlife-research that blows away current government guidelines, refutes the myth of slowing metabolisms and "inevitable" weight gain, and changes the way people in their mid-forties and older should think about food. The Whole Body Reset explains in simple, inspiring terms exactly how our bodies change with age, and how eating to accommodate those changes can make us respond to exercise as if we were twenty to thirty years younger.
Developed by AARP, tested by a panel of more than 100 AARP employees, and approved by an international board of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness experts, The Whole Body Reset doesn't use diet phases, eating windows, calorie restriction, or other trendy gimmicks. Its six simple secrets and scores of recipes are easy to follow, designed for real people living in the real world. A dining guide even shows how to follow this program in popular restaurants from McDonald's to Starbucks to Olive Garden. And best of all: It works!
Editorial Reviews
"Our bodies change with age, and the way we eat needs to change in response. The Whole Body Reset is the first program written specifically for people at midlife who want to stay lean, active and strong for decades to come." - Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent for CNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Keep Sharp, and associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine
"Gaining weight at midlife is common, but it's not inevitable. The Whole Body Reset is a plan that can not only stop but even reverse age-related weight gain and muscle loss. The best part is that it's simple, and it works!" - Ian Smith, MD, New York Times bestselling author of FAST Burn and former member of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition
"Finally, a nutrition program I would recommend to family and friends in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. It's new, crucial information that can change your life." - Travis Stork, MD, Emmy-nominated former cohost of The Doctors and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Belly Prescription
"As a weight-loss coach for nearly two decades, I couldn't possibly be more excited about The Whole Body Reset! I've encountered a debilitated, ‘it's-just-not-going-to-work-at-my-age' mindset in middle aged+ clients more times than I can count. To FINALLY have a concrete resource full of sensible strategies that promote muscle gain and overall health, backed by scientific evidence, is a game changer." - Devin Alexander, celebrity chef, weight loss coach, and New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Loser Cookbook series
"It is never too late to change your life, as long as you have smart, science-driven information at your fingertips. The Whole Body Reset is a breakthrough program that gives you the tools you need to turn back the clock and reclaim your physique, your health, and your life." - Marco Borges, nutritionist, exercise physiologist, and founder of 22 Days Nutrition
"In smart, easy-to-digest language, The Whole Body Reset explains how simple tweaks to our daily eating habits can make our bodies respond as though they are 20 or 30 years younger." - Mark Hyman, MD, Pritzker Foundation Chair in Functional Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, and New York Times bestselling author of The Pegan Diet
"As I approached 50, I noticed my body was changing. The Whole Body Reset explains how and why this happens, and what to do to get back into ideal physical shape." - Jorge Cruise, celebrity personal trainer, nutritionist, and New York Tim...
"Gaining weight at midlife is common, but it's not inevitable. The Whole Body Reset is a plan that can not only stop but even reverse age-related weight gain and muscle loss. The best part is that it's simple, and it works!" - Ian Smith, MD, New York Times bestselling author of FAST Burn and former member of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition
"Finally, a nutrition program I would recommend to family and friends in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. It's new, crucial information that can change your life." - Travis Stork, MD, Emmy-nominated former cohost of The Doctors and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Belly Prescription
"As a weight-loss coach for nearly two decades, I couldn't possibly be more excited about The Whole Body Reset! I've encountered a debilitated, ‘it's-just-not-going-to-work-at-my-age' mindset in middle aged+ clients more times than I can count. To FINALLY have a concrete resource full of sensible strategies that promote muscle gain and overall health, backed by scientific evidence, is a game changer." - Devin Alexander, celebrity chef, weight loss coach, and New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Loser Cookbook series
"It is never too late to change your life, as long as you have smart, science-driven information at your fingertips. The Whole Body Reset is a breakthrough program that gives you the tools you need to turn back the clock and reclaim your physique, your health, and your life." - Marco Borges, nutritionist, exercise physiologist, and founder of 22 Days Nutrition
"In smart, easy-to-digest language, The Whole Body Reset explains how simple tweaks to our daily eating habits can make our bodies respond as though they are 20 or 30 years younger." - Mark Hyman, MD, Pritzker Foundation Chair in Functional Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, and New York Times bestselling author of The Pegan Diet
"As I approached 50, I noticed my body was changing. The Whole Body Reset explains how and why this happens, and what to do to get back into ideal physical shape." - Jorge Cruise, celebrity personal trainer, nutritionist, and New York Tim...
Readers Top Reviews
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After reading the article in AARP about this approach to senior nutrition, I bought the book. It's a mixed bag. The good: Some useful, sound nutritional advice that you can act on immediately, without a lot of prep or outlay on expensive extras. Good examples on how to stick to guidelines while eating out. No fat-shaming. Explodes some lingering diet myths like the low-fat craze. Some of the exercises are good and well-described. Many of the recipes are good combinations of fresh, healthy food, though some were way too fiddly (I'm looking at you, Farro Chicken with Bok Choy). Adding protein as the book suggests, especially at breakfast, has indeed increased my energy levels significantly, so that's probably worth the price of the book. The less-good: Like an earlier reviewer, I found the book poorly organized and puzzling in places. The section on "The Whole Body High Intensity Interval Workout" covers five pages, two of which are devoted to a kind of sidebar with ideas on how to motivate yourself to actually do the workouts, one page to the benefits of HIIT, and a poorly-designed chart showing "workouts," except they don't actually say what to do. There's virtually no useful information for someone who might not already be familiar with HIIT. The food suggestions do seem to be aimed at people who are already Mediterranean diet converts (kale and sardine panzanella? No, you first) and might not be as appealing to readers new to this type of diet. There are way too many instances of "studies suggest," or saying things like "...dark chocolate can play a role in keeping blood pressure in check" (though the study they cite is pretty vague about that), "according to a review of studies around the world" (not cited) and other kinds of dubious evidence for their claims. Given that at least one of the authors has a sound background in these fields, I'd have expected better supporting data. The book overall has that slightly-hectoring, sales pitch tone of every diet book ever published, and at least a third of the book seems to be trying to convince you that what they're saying is true. The essential takeaways for me were to boost protein at every meal, increase fiber ditto, eat brightly-colored fruits and vegetables and exercise regularly. These are good messages, although not necessarily new. Most of the information on the actual eating guidelines is clear. I'm not sorry I bought it. It just could have been a better book.
