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The South Beach Diet Wake-Up Call: 7 Real-Life Strategies for Living Your Healthiest Life Ever
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About The South Beach Diet Wake-Up Call: 7 Real-Life
Product Description From Arthur Agatston, M.D. the creator of the South Beach Diet comes a call to change the fast-food, sedentary way of life that's aging us quickly and killing us slowly. Both a galvanizing call to action and an easy-to-follow plan for reversing and healing a toxic lifestyle, The South Beach Wake-Up Call is the urgent message that no reader can afford to ignore. It includes: - 7 simple sustainable strategies for age-reversing, lifesaving weight loss - The South Beach Gluten Solution to improve symptoms in sensitive individuals - The Wake Up and Move 2-Week Quick-Start exercise plan - 32 all-new recipes from breakfasts to desserts using megafoods Review “Dr. Agatston has done it again with an unblinkingly honest assessment of our health combined with insightful action steps to pull the wellness train back on the tracks.” —Mehmet Oz, MD, host, The Dr. Oz Show About the Author Arthur Agatston, MD, is a preventive cardiologist, associate professor of medicine and author of the bestselling South Beach Diet series. He lives and practices in Miami Beach. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. PART 1 The Health of Our Nation: CONDITION CRITICAL! CHAPTER 1 THE TICKING TIME BOMB Americans are fatter and sicker than ever. We are eating horrendously, moving and exercising less, and not getting enough sleep. This has made us fatigued, depressed, irritable, achy, and generally miserable. And if feeling terrible isn't bad enough, these habits are also making us sick-- with diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, to name just a few. We compensate by taking a lot of pills and supplements and resort to fad diets and other quick fixes that work temporarily or not at all. If we stay on this course, things are only going to get worse. If you don't believe me, keep reading. Even if you do believe me, but feel helpless to do anything about it, keep reading. My goal is to "wake" you up so that you can understand how we got to this sorry state and how you can turn things around for yourself, your family, your community, and, yes, for your country. First let me introduce you to Marianne B. whose story illustrates the challenges we face. Marianne, a 30-year-old nurse, is scared that the small Midwestern town where she and her husband are raising their two school-age children is literally dying before her eyes. What she's worried about is something that should be obvious, even to someone who's not a health-care professional. Nearly everyone in her town is either overweight or obese--including the kids. Diabetes is rampant. Heart disease is on the rise, especially among young adults. And at the hospital where she works, she is seeing more cases of severe allergies, chronic sinus and ear infections, asthma, and potentially life-threatening lung ailments than ever before. It's no mystery to Marianne why so many people in her community are sick. "It's primarily the sedentary lifestyle and the poor diet, but people seem to be oblivious to the impact that their lifestyle is having on their health," she explains. What is perplexing to her is how many of them just don't get it. Marianne's town isn't the only one that's in trouble--chances are your town is not much different from hers, and like the folks in her town, you too may have simply stopped noticing. That's hard to do, though, if you look at the maps on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site (www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html) that show obesity trends across the United States rising dramatically between 1985 and 2010. It really is astounding. In 1985, for all states for which there were data, the obesity rate was less than 15 percent, with many states having rates of less than 10 percent. Today, 36 states have obesity rates greater than 25 percent, with 12 of them at more than 30 percent! The state with the lowest obesity rate (21 percent) is Colorado. But if Colorado had the same obesity rate in 1985 that it has
