Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Book Review: Flip the Switch: Proven Strategies to Fuel Your Metabolism and Burn Fat 24 Hours a Day

picture of the book cover of Flip the Switch

Forget dieting! That's one premise of Flip the Switch: Proven Strategies to Fuel Your Metabolism and Burn Fat 24 Hours a Day by Robert K. Cooper, PhD.

It's a one of a kind approach to turning up your body's thermostat or what he calls Meta-Stat, meta as in metabolic and stat as in thermostat, which he believes is the answer to burning fat.

Cooper's interactive book is based on a wide range of research -- nutrition, exercise science, physiology, psychology, chronobiology (the study of daily biological rhythms in the body and brain), neuroscience stress dynamics. It also includes easy-to-do exercises and tasty recipes to increase your metabolism.


What you will learn:


  • How sipping ice water can elevate metabolism by 30 percent for an hour and a half

  • How deep breathing can short-circuit stress

  • How light instantly revs up fat-burning

  • How momentary pauses ramp up energy levels

  • How a few easy moves can jump-start metabolism and build muscle

  • How to eat a diet of small but frequent meals to burn fat

  • How to perform frequent bouts of physical activity every 15 minutes to burn fat

  • How light elevates metabolism

  • How lack of sleep increases fat storage

  • How skipping meals can lower your metabolism

  • How sugar is a fat maker

  • How getting some activity 15 to 30 minutes after a meal burns fat

  • How green tea, iced or hot, can rev up metabolism and fat burning by 35 percent

  • How to get rid of muscular trigger points

  • How to stop the stress response

  • How hormones play a significant role in fat burning

  • How eating high glycemic carbs, like fat-free yogurt, can boost your serotonin -- your mood

You know you have a credible book when the bibliography section reads like a scientific Who's Who in Science and Nutrition. Flip the Switch is a good resource for anyone that wants to lose weight, fuel your metabolism, and burn fat in a healthy manner.

Stay moving.

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