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January 17 2002
The X Factor Diet
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From the back cover THE X FACTOR DIET by LESLIE KENTON
Enter The X Factor.......
You have the power to shed fat permanently - beginning with your next meal.
This book can change your life forever:
Forget calorie counting
Shed fat naturally
Optimize your health
Reset your metabolism
Banish cravings
Boost energy
Move up to a firm, sleek body
Slow Aging
A recently discovered group of metabolic disorders known as Syndrome X has spawned obesity on a scale never seen before. Syndrome X, also know as insulin resistance syndrome, predisposes us to high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and early aging. It also lowers our energy levels, makes us fat, and keeps us that way.
The major culprit is the high-carb/low-fat diet we have been urged to follow. Cutting-edge research now shows this diet undermines our health and makes many of us fat. Why? Because over a million years the human body has evolved for a totally different way of eating: a Paleolithic diet rich in non-starchy vegetables and plant nutrients, tip quality proteins and omega 3 fats.
Leslie Kenton's scientifically backed X Factor Diet restores normal weight naturally. This diet brings fat loss forever - without pill, without hunger, and with hardship. You'll be amazed at how quickly your body changes. The result: permanent weight loss, endless energy and a lean strong body for life.
An epidemic is sweeping the Western world…
& it’s making us fat
THE X-FACTOR DIET
For Lasting Weight Loss and Vital Health by Leslie Kenton
Enter the X-Factor:
Forget calorie counting
Shed fat naturally forever
Optimize your health and vitality
Reset your metabolism
Create a stronger, leaner body
Slow the aging process
‘This is hot stuff – probably the most valuable discovery about human health in the last century’
Pioneering health writer Leslie Kenton’s revolutionary new nutritional program reveals how the low fat, high carbohydrate diet we are still urged to eat may literally be killing us. Based on cutting edge scientific research, The X-Factor Diet reveals how the newly discovered metabolic disorder called Syndrome X or insulin resistance, is largely to blame for rising levels of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. Banish Syndrome X and you will not only look and feel better, you can also become lean at last for life, help prevent degenerative diseases and slow the aging process.
The X-Factor Diet helps restore in three major ways:
Reestablishing the balance between good quality protein; slow release, low glycaemic/low density carbohydrates; healthy fats and phytonutrients which the human body is genetically coded to thrive on
Increasing the level of Omega 3 fats in our bodies. These are essential for the body to function efficiently and to protect us from degeneration.
Establishing a moderate exercise program incorporating weight-resistance. This will increase our energy burning capacity by building muscle and creating a leaner, sleeker shape.
That’s all well and good, but what is Syndrome X?
Syndrome X is a cluster of metabolic disorders which often result from living for a long time on a typical Western diet of convenience foods riddled with hidden sugars and junk fats as well as processed grains and starchy vegetables. Syndrome X was first identified by Gerald Reaven, an endocrinologist at California’s Stanford University in 1988. Since then the clinical experience of doctors trained in functional medicine, have taken our understanding of it way beyond his first assertions. Extensive research by other scientists indicates that Syndrome X is reaching epidemic proportions and causing big health problems in the Western world including soaring obesity. Scientists examining the effects of low fat/high carb diets insist that, contrary to popular belief, these are the foods that make us fat in the first place.
But how?
Syndrome X is also known as insulin resistance. The primary abnormality which links together all the disorders associated with the syndrome is a mounting insensitivity to the hormone insulin at a cellular level. The human body evolved to eat a Paleolithic diet rich in non-starchy vegetables and plant nutrients, top quality proteins and omega 3 fats. Today, we stress our systems with so much high-density carbohydrate that the high levels of glucose triggered by such foods flood our cells with insulin, the hormone that helps the body turn carbohydrate into energy. Our bodies become unresponsive to the hormone so our pancreas secretes more and more of it in an attempt to get energy into the cells. Unable to turn this excess glucose into energy, the body lays it down as fat.
The good news is – this process can be reversed
The X-Factor Diet uses two programs which have the same goal: to help you shed excess fat permanently while regenerating your body, restoring vitality and enhancing your health.
Ketogenics: For women with more than 35% body fat and men with more than 22%. This is a scientifically based method for kick-starting your body into fat-burning mode. It is based on a calorific ratio of 50:20:30 with 50% of calories coming from protein, 20% from low glycaemic/low density (slow release) carbohydrates and 30% from healthy fats – lots of Omega 3s. Each meal will be made up of two parts protein to one part low glycaemic vegetables.
Insulin Balance: A program for women with less than 35% body fat and men with less than 22%. Insulin Balance is based on a moderate carbohydrate and adequate protein diet. The diet will reduce your intake of grains, improve the kind of fats you eat and introduce a calorific ratio of 35:35:30 for top quality proteins, low glycaemic index carbohydrates and health-enhancing fats at each meal. Each meal will be made up of one part protein to two parts carbohydrates.
In addition to the diet programs, The X-Factor Diet includes:
Chapters on eating out and entertaining while following the diet
Flexible eating plans and delicious X-Factor recipes
A guide to exercise and weight resistance programs which will build a stronger, leaner body
An ‘Idiot’s Guide’ section that answers all your questions on the safety and practicalities of the programs
Scientific and clinical research to support the diet including how The X-Factor diet program differs greatly both in its health-enhancing and fat-loss abilities from diets like the Dr. Atkins diet and Zone diet
If you’ve ever struggled to lose weight, craved sugary foods or experienced that 11am/4pm energy slump then The X-Factor Diet is for you.
About Leslie Kenton:
Leslie Kenton’s name is synonymous with cutting edge natural health. An award winning writer, novelist, broadcaster, photographer, teacher and filmmaker she is well known for her pioneering research and in-depth reporting. Leslie was Health and beauty Editor for Harpers & Queen for 14 years and is a regular contributor to many magazines, newspapers and broadcast programs She lectures regularly and has been honored by being invited to deliver the McCarrison Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Leslie Kenton has written over 30 bestselling books on health including the groundbreaking Raw Energy Diet, The New Raw Energy, The New Ageless Aging, Passage to Power and Ten Steps to a New You – all published by Vermilion. She also created the worldwide ORIGINS product range for Estee Lauder and other health and beauty ranges as well as acting as a consultant for European Parliament and companies such as Boots in the UK, L’Oreal in Paris and Unilever in the USA. Leslie is the daughter of American jazz musician, Stan Kenton and the mother of four children. She has homes across the world and will be available for interview in the UK in September, October 2001 and January 2002.
The X-Factor Diet is published by Vermilion on 17th January 2002 in softback.
Tried and Tested: The X-Factor Diet
A documentary following the progress of volunteers on the X-Factor Diet was recently aired in New Zealand. Called To Age or Not to Age, the program took 8 men and women of different ages and backgrounds and asked them to follow the Ketogenics and Insulin Balance programs for just 5 weeks. The results were verified by the Wakefield Hospital in Wellington and used standard medical measurements (such as HDL/LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides, insulin and glucose levels and lean body mass to fat ratios). The results were astounding showing that it is, in fact, possible to reverse the biological measurements of age and rejuvenate the body in a medically measurable way.
The X-Factor Diet at a glance
The Principles of the Ketogenics and Insulin Balance Programs
Eliminate both refined and high glycaemic index carbohydrates, including flour, starchy vegetables like potatoes, white rice, sugar and other sweeteners.
Choose natural, fresh, organic, unprocessed foods
Eat many of your vegetables and fruits raw if you can, to get the benefits of the sunlight quanta they carry
Make non-starchy vegetables your primary source of carbohydrates
Steer clear of soft drinks, fruit juices, alcohol, and other highly processed drinks
Eliminate vegetable oils rich in omega-6 fatty acids from your diet. Use cold-pressed, extra-virgin olive oil instead
Enrich your diet with omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil and flaxseed oils
Refuse all trans fats – junk fats found in deep-fried foods, margarine as well as foods that contain partially hydrogenated oils
Eat protein foods at every meal and snack
Eliminate coffee – especially on Ketogenics
Stay away from all highly processed convenience foods
Gradually determine your own best level of carbohydrate for weight loss and maintenance and stick to it
Take a multiple vitamin plus plant factor antioxidant such as flavonoids, pycnogenal and alpha-lipoic acid regularly
Do some form of strength training four days a week for 30 minutes to strengthen your lean body mass
Walk briskly for 15-30 minutes each day to counter insulin resistance, enhance energy, improve your body’s update of glycogen and maintain good emotional balance
The X-Factor Diet is published by Vermilion on 17th January 2002 in softback.
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