Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life: Dr. Taub's 28 Day Permanent Weight Loss Plan

Discusses the roots of obesity and the role of nutrition in wellness, and outlines a program of diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements to retain desired weights

"Striking a Healthy Balance"
- A LETTER FROM DR. TAUB - I have an important message for everyone who is trying to lose weight: Stop dieting now! Diets don't work and they may harm you. You have to first fix your insides before you can fix your outside. I see my work as a physician as a gift from God. My mission is to share this gift with others through teaching them how to stay well in the first place and helping them to heal once they become ill. Being overweight is simply a sign that your body is out of balance--which is the same as being ill. It's important to realize that in these stress-filled times, I-L-L has become equivalent to "I Lack Love." Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life empowers you to renew your self-esteem and reverence for life in order to lose weight naturally and permanently. Just READING my book can help you lose weight forever, and could save your life, because you'll never be able to look at food in the same way again. I wrote this book to empower people of all ages who want to lose weight permanently. I also wrote it for parents who are trying to raise infants, children and teenagers who are not overweight. The book is especially attuned to the needs of women and children--they are our future! I believe my book is the most honest book about weight loss ever written because it's all about science and research, not just sales and marketing. Overweight people should not be harming their metabolism with the latest fad diet of the month! Diets don't work because when we are unhappy, lonely or just bored, we usually give in to our food cravings and temptations. In other words, we just follow the most familiar and comfortable path of least resistance because it is the easiest thing to do. Well, here at last is hope for the millions of people (especially women) who have discovered that all diets fail; my 28-day plan balances your energy and causes you to lose weight forever by building a NEW path of least resistance--to wellness and parmanent weight loss. We all have a healing force called homeostasis which strives to keep the energy of our body in balance. When the energy of our body gets out of balance, then our body accumulates excess fat. It's as simple as that! Therefore, in order to lose weight permanently, we have to rebalance the energy of our body-- then homeostasis leads our body to shed its excess weight. It's a perfectly natural system! In other words, you've first got to fix your "inner works"--your own physical, mental and spiritual resources. The way we eat has powerful emotional roots and if you try to just diet your fat away, then it always comes back--just like water in a rowboat being bailed out without the hole being plugged. Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life is based on the power of the mind-body connection (your mind can be a healer or a slayer). It's also based on the fact that human beings have a predictable lifecycle and the harmful lifestyle habits--particularly the way we eat--that we may get away with in our youth just don't work when we age. Entropy is the force of nature that makes our bodies eventually fall apart to make room for the next generation. My book helps you to pinpoint and understand your position in your personal human lifecycle so that you can begin to take appropriate steps to slow down entropy and prolong the quality of your life. Clearly, it's time for overweight people to wake up! By peeling away layer after layer of the food industry's brainwashing techniques that define our attitudes, beliefs and emotions about food, we can finally glimpse the truth about losing weight forever: Eating more live-energy foods and less dead-energy foods balances our body so that it begins to naturally shed its excess fat. This is a perfectly natural system, and once we see the truth, we are unable to ever completely turn our back on it: The only way to lose weight permanently is to first balance our body with live-energy foods and then let our body naturally use its own healing resources to shed its excess fat--rather than starving our body or depriving our appetite. This truth takes hold in most people immediately and leads them to action. If not, then plenty of seeds are planted that will sprout when people feel good enough about themselves to finally take charge of their own health destiny. Balance Your Body, Balance Your Life teaches people how to eat delicious, savory food while staying mostly on the top five steps of a "Food Energy Ladder." A picture is worth a thousand words, and the energy ladder is so easy to understand that even children will "get it" right away: Foods full of "live-energy" are nearest to the top of the ladder and foods with "dead-energy" are closest to the bottom. The Food Energy Ladder introduces a satisfying way of eating based on the notion of "moderation in all things . . . including moderation." My 28-day permanent weight loss plan also includes a 48-hour kick-start method to motivate and move overweight people from chronic procrastination to immediate action. It starts with a "reality check" in front of a mirror and writing down what we will look like five years from now if we DON'T change the way we eat by understanding why we eat the way we do. Finally, the book includes approximately 100 recipes that utilize "live-energy" foods in a variety of taste-tempting ways. These are the meals that my wife Anneli and I eat at home--like a delicious vegetable risotto that matches the flavor of beef stew any day! You see, food is not our enemy; food is our ENERGY! Your body remembers wellness in all of its cells . . . all you have to do is let your own physical, emotional and spiritual resources do their work. My plan for permanent weight loss is an effective blueprint for action. As a pediatrician and family doctor, my real goal is to help create a healthier environment for the body, mind and soul of my patients, an environment in which they can flourish. I believe I can best accomplish this by helping children and adults of all ages balance their bodies to be healthier and lose weight--forever. With warmest regards, Edward A. Taub, M.D. I