--- product_id: 124772193 title: "How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss" price: "$48.88" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/124772193-how-not-to-diet-the-groundbreaking-science-of-healthy-permanent store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss **Price:** $48.88 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss - **How much does it cost?** $48.88 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/124772193-how-not-to-diet-the-groundbreaking-science-of-healthy-permanent) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Discover the cutting-edge science behind long-term weight loss success, in this powerful new book from the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die . Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad―and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. It’s time for a different approach. Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of the Nutrition Facts website. Author of the mega bestselling How Not to Die , Dr. Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes―and remedies―of obesity. Dr. Greger hones in on the optimal criteria to enable weight loss, while considering how these foods actually affect our health and longevity. He lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss diet―factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome―showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success. But How Not to Diet goes beyond food to identify twenty-one weight-loss accelerators available to our bodies, incorporating the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities. Dr. Greger builds the ultimate weight loss guide from the ground up, taking a timeless, proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend. Chock full of actionable advice and groundbreaking dietary research, How Not to Diet will put an end to dieting―and replace those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle. Review: Knowledge is Power When You Want to Lose Weight! - Dr. Greger knows what the scientific studies say about weight loss and he's spilling the beans!!! He also makes his books highly enjoyable to read because he knows how to amuse with witty humor. I was laughing already when reading the introduction. The laughs continued throughout the book at enjoyable intervals. I knew I was really going to learn a lot more about how to lose weight than any other book could teach me. The first part of the book discusses surgery, diet supplements and other quick weight-loss solutions and their consequences! Is there a better way? Is there hope for us all in this obesity epidemic? Dr. Greger has done the research for us and he knows the truth about how difficult it is to lose weight. He is fighting for anyone who is overweight and wants to lose weight more permanently. Some of the questions this book answers include: What spice helps you lose weight when you eat it daily? What time of day should you exercise for maximum fat loss? (This has helped me the most!) What specific food should you eat if you want to live longer and be slimmer? Should you skip any meals? What does the research say about fasting? Which cinnamon should you eat and which should you avoid? No author has influenced my eating habits this year more than Dr. Greger! His logical explanations work well to encourage a healthier lifestyle! At the end of the book there is a list of all the things to do to guarantee your weight loss success. One idea has been lifechanging for me. I have an easy way to fit in an hour of walking each day. With all the choices you have for reading diet books that only work if you follow them exactly and all the time, why not give this book a try! It is much easier to follow the daily activities this book suggests that help you look your best and keep it that way. I found some easy things to do daily and some food items to add into my diet. I do think non religious meditation and yoga are preferable so you don't have to change your whole belief system to benefit. I have found these two activities reduce my anxiety and pain in my body. Dr. Greger recommends one of them however and has some interesting information on the other! Today I also got the cookbook that goes with this book because it has recipes Dr. Greger mentions in this book that sound so good. He's really also a really creative and original cook. I trust the health advice by this doctor because he is backed by science and lives what he recommends. I'm happier, healthier and more grateful for having found his wonderful healing books. The advice works!!!! ~The Rebecca Review P.S. Since reading all the main How Not To books I've lost weight and seem to have figured something out because I do not lose weight easily! This book has helped me greatly! My nurse was really impressed that I'd lost ten pounds! Review: The only diet book you'll ever need - great, weird audio narration - I've read a ton of diet books, and this is the best — I suspect, the only one I'll ever need again. Simply fascinating front to back, and it appeals to the skeptic in me with the author's frequent refrain to "put it to the test," to examine weight-loss claims through randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. Consider programs like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers when actually studied — they lead to about 3 to 6 pounds on average lost after 2 years, 93 percent of participants dropping out by the end of one year. Participants spend about $200 per pound lost. And the keto diet — you'll never want to try this after reading the book. An institute created with $40 million to study and promote the diet found that keto proponents' claims were false — those on the keto diet end up retaining more fat in their bodies — so the institute ended up closing. The studies on gastric bypass and other surgical procedures to lose weight are also alarming. Most people who undertake them end up still obese because they just learn to game the system — eating lots of tiny meals of junk food or putting chocolate bars in blenders. I’ve changed numerous habits based on findings that have been put to the test — and have continued to do them every day for 4 months while I finished the book. (It's a huge book!) For example, the biggest meals of the day are now breakfast and lunch with only a salad for dinner — the same foods essentially have more calories based on the time of day you eat them because of the body's circadian rhythms. I highly recommend getting both audio and text versions of the book. I would've never finished it just reading it. It's not only big but filled with lots of studies, numbers, and chemical compounds — but these were easy to digest thanks to the author's "Drunken Capt. Kirk" reading of the material. Absolutely loved it. In short, the way to lose weight is not to decrease the quantity of food but to increase its quality. Cut out sugar (especially sugary drinks) and processed foods, decrease or eliminate dairy and meat, and increase whole plant foods. Some unexpected tidbits: exercise does not help with weight loss generally, diet sodas are linked to overeating, and beans are one of the best foods for maintaining a healthy weight. Oh and one more thing: The author has a thoughtful section on fat-shaming that addresses much of what makes many other diet books creepy in their treatment of fat in general and obesity in specific. Two short excerpts, the first about how frustration causes poor food choices and the second about claims that people won't stick to plant-based diets. "So this was the setup: Randomize people to memorize either a seven-digit number or a two-digit number to be recalled in another room down the hall. As they walk from one room to the other, offer each of them the choice of a fruit salad or a piece of chocolate cake. Memorizing a two-digit number is easy and presumably takes few cognitive resources. Under the two-digit condition, most chose the fruit salad. Faced with the same decision, most of those trying to keep seven digits in their heads just went for the cake." "Even those who are young and healthy with no health issues appear to have little problem sticking to a plant-based diet. There was a crossover study in which women were instructed to eat plant-based foods for a few months to see how it would affect their menstrual cycles. But then they were to switch back to their baseline diets to note the contrast, a so-called A-B-A study design where you reverse the experimental variable. The problem is that some participants felt so good eating healthfully—they were losing weight without any calorie counting or portion control, they had more energy, their periods got better, and they experienced better digestion and better sleep—that some refused to go back to their regular diets, which kind of messes up the study. Because they didn’t comply with the protocol and go back to their baseline diets, their data had to be thrown out. So, ironically, the plant-based diet worked a little too well." Oh, what the heck, one more excerpt: "Why won’t cereal manufacturers reduce the amount of sugar in their products? A number of explanations have been offered, such as “a product with semi-addictive properties may be a safe way to ensure long-term revenues.… Another possibility is that selling cereals high in sugar is a smart technique to sell expansively a cheap commodity product—sugar.” Ultraprocessed foods like breakfast cereals tend to have the highest profit margins. Remarkably, the cost of packaging may outweigh the cost of ingredients in a cereal box by more than ten to one." ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #39,498 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in Nutrition for Cancer Prevention #6 in Food Counters | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 7,180 Reviews | ## Images ![How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EHiUPdg6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Knowledge is Power When You Want to Lose Weight! *by T***W on June 2, 2024* Dr. Greger knows what the scientific studies say about weight loss and he's spilling the beans!!! He also makes his books highly enjoyable to read because he knows how to amuse with witty humor. I was laughing already when reading the introduction. The laughs continued throughout the book at enjoyable intervals. I knew I was really going to learn a lot more about how to lose weight than any other book could teach me. The first part of the book discusses surgery, diet supplements and other quick weight-loss solutions and their consequences! Is there a better way? Is there hope for us all in this obesity epidemic? Dr. Greger has done the research for us and he knows the truth about how difficult it is to lose weight. He is fighting for anyone who is overweight and wants to lose weight more permanently. Some of the questions this book answers include: What spice helps you lose weight when you eat it daily? What time of day should you exercise for maximum fat loss? (This has helped me the most!) What specific food should you eat if you want to live longer and be slimmer? Should you skip any meals? What does the research say about fasting? Which cinnamon should you eat and which should you avoid? No author has influenced my eating habits this year more than Dr. Greger! His logical explanations work well to encourage a healthier lifestyle! At the end of the book there is a list of all the things to do to guarantee your weight loss success. One idea has been lifechanging for me. I have an easy way to fit in an hour of walking each day. With all the choices you have for reading diet books that only work if you follow them exactly and all the time, why not give this book a try! It is much easier to follow the daily activities this book suggests that help you look your best and keep it that way. I found some easy things to do daily and some food items to add into my diet. I do think non religious meditation and yoga are preferable so you don't have to change your whole belief system to benefit. I have found these two activities reduce my anxiety and pain in my body. Dr. Greger recommends one of them however and has some interesting information on the other! Today I also got the cookbook that goes with this book because it has recipes Dr. Greger mentions in this book that sound so good. He's really also a really creative and original cook. I trust the health advice by this doctor because he is backed by science and lives what he recommends. I'm happier, healthier and more grateful for having found his wonderful healing books. The advice works!!!! ~The Rebecca Review P.S. Since reading all the main How Not To books I've lost weight and seem to have figured something out because I do not lose weight easily! This book has helped me greatly! My nurse was really impressed that I'd lost ten pounds! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The only diet book you'll ever need - great, weird audio narration *by M***K on May 2, 2020* I've read a ton of diet books, and this is the best — I suspect, the only one I'll ever need again. Simply fascinating front to back, and it appeals to the skeptic in me with the author's frequent refrain to "put it to the test," to examine weight-loss claims through randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. Consider programs like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers when actually studied — they lead to about 3 to 6 pounds on average lost after 2 years, 93 percent of participants dropping out by the end of one year. Participants spend about $200 per pound lost. And the keto diet — you'll never want to try this after reading the book. An institute created with $40 million to study and promote the diet found that keto proponents' claims were false — those on the keto diet end up retaining more fat in their bodies — so the institute ended up closing. The studies on gastric bypass and other surgical procedures to lose weight are also alarming. Most people who undertake them end up still obese because they just learn to game the system — eating lots of tiny meals of junk food or putting chocolate bars in blenders. I’ve changed numerous habits based on findings that have been put to the test — and have continued to do them every day for 4 months while I finished the book. (It's a huge book!) For example, the biggest meals of the day are now breakfast and lunch with only a salad for dinner — the same foods essentially have more calories based on the time of day you eat them because of the body's circadian rhythms. I highly recommend getting both audio and text versions of the book. I would've never finished it just reading it. It's not only big but filled with lots of studies, numbers, and chemical compounds — but these were easy to digest thanks to the author's "Drunken Capt. Kirk" reading of the material. Absolutely loved it. In short, the way to lose weight is not to decrease the quantity of food but to increase its quality. Cut out sugar (especially sugary drinks) and processed foods, decrease or eliminate dairy and meat, and increase whole plant foods. Some unexpected tidbits: exercise does not help with weight loss generally, diet sodas are linked to overeating, and beans are one of the best foods for maintaining a healthy weight. Oh and one more thing: The author has a thoughtful section on fat-shaming that addresses much of what makes many other diet books creepy in their treatment of fat in general and obesity in specific. Two short excerpts, the first about how frustration causes poor food choices and the second about claims that people won't stick to plant-based diets. "So this was the setup: Randomize people to memorize either a seven-digit number or a two-digit number to be recalled in another room down the hall. As they walk from one room to the other, offer each of them the choice of a fruit salad or a piece of chocolate cake. Memorizing a two-digit number is easy and presumably takes few cognitive resources. Under the two-digit condition, most chose the fruit salad. Faced with the same decision, most of those trying to keep seven digits in their heads just went for the cake." "Even those who are young and healthy with no health issues appear to have little problem sticking to a plant-based diet. There was a crossover study in which women were instructed to eat plant-based foods for a few months to see how it would affect their menstrual cycles. But then they were to switch back to their baseline diets to note the contrast, a so-called A-B-A study design where you reverse the experimental variable. The problem is that some participants felt so good eating healthfully—they were losing weight without any calorie counting or portion control, they had more energy, their periods got better, and they experienced better digestion and better sleep—that some refused to go back to their regular diets, which kind of messes up the study. Because they didn’t comply with the protocol and go back to their baseline diets, their data had to be thrown out. So, ironically, the plant-based diet worked a little too well." Oh, what the heck, one more excerpt: "Why won’t cereal manufacturers reduce the amount of sugar in their products? A number of explanations have been offered, such as “a product with semi-addictive properties may be a safe way to ensure long-term revenues.… Another possibility is that selling cereals high in sugar is a smart technique to sell expansively a cheap commodity product—sugar.” Ultraprocessed foods like breakfast cereals tend to have the highest profit margins. Remarkably, the cost of packaging may outweigh the cost of ingredients in a cereal box by more than ten to one." ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A science-based book to help you maximize your health -- not just for those looking to lose weight *by L***E on December 12, 2019* I'm a huge fan of Dr. Greger and his science-backed _How Not to Die_, the complementary cookbook, and his Nutrition Facts website, and so I eagerly pre-ordered this new book. At 570 pages (and that's just of content!), I haven't had the chance to read it all, but I'm a fair way in. As always, Dr. Greger's writing is interesting and fun, and _How Not to Diet_ is as much of a page-turner as his previous book. As he explains in the Preface and Introduction, Dr. Greger's goal was to look into all of the existing research about dieting and distill it down into a presentation of the best techniques that will help with weight loss and that are scientifically proven. He explains that the "goal was to give you every possible tweak and technique we could find to build the optimal weight-control solution from the ground up." To that end, the book is broken up into four major sections: * An outline/explanation of the growing obesity problem in America * An exploration of what works best for fat loss * An investigation of how the present diets measure up to the best strategies for sustainable weight loss * A deep-dive into the best weight-loss boosters so you can create your own "portfolio of techniques" Dr. Greger covers hot topics like intermittent fasting, and also ones I've never heard of before like chronobiology, which is how our bodies are affected by diurnal and seasonal cycles. He also covers information about types of exercise, like high-intensity interval training (HIIT) in order to make recommendations not only about how to lose weight, but how to stay healthy. If you're familiar with his Daily Dozen (the twelve foods we should be eating every day), there isn't quite something comparable here, but he does provide a lot of information about health-sustaining foods (like green tea, turmeric, etc.) so as to encourage readers to incorporate more of those foods into their daily eating. In lieu of providing a list of references at the end of the book, there is a QR code you can scan on your phone that will take you to links for each reference source. While I miss being able to look back at the references while I read (I'm an academic [i.,e., nerd ;-) ] and take pleasure in looking at the sources used), I like that the online references contain links to the primary articles. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Dr. Greger is a modern-day icon in the world of healthy eating. The work that he's doing has helped thousands of people adopt healthier ways of eating, and this book is another great book to add to your library if you're interested in learning more about the science behind health. 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