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patricia92243

(12,590 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 04:46 AM Apr 2013

Beck Diet Solutions

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_8_8?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=beck+diet+audio&sprefix=beck+die%2Caps%2C228

This link is to the book on Amazon, I am sure it is for sale at other places.

It is not a diet that tells you what to eat, but rather how to eat and how to think about eating. Excellent book and very different than anything I have ever read on dieting.

EXAMPLE:

"Sabotaging Thought: I can’t throw away this leftover holiday food, it would be a waste of food and money.

Response: If I eat food my body doesn’t need, it will be wasted in my body by turning to fat. Wasted in the trashcan or in my body, either way it’s wasted. Also, the money is already gone, eating the food won’t bring the money back, but what it may do is cause me to gain weight."


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Beck Diet Solutions (Original Post) patricia92243 Apr 2013 OP
Michael Pollan's 7 rules of eating. alfredo Apr 2013 #1

alfredo

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1. Michael Pollan's 7 rules of eating.
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 02:05 PM
Apr 2013

1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.


2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.


3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.


4. Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.


5. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, 'Tie off the sack before it's full.'"


6. Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.


7. Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.

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I'm a big fan of Pollan's books on food. His "In Defense of Food" is worth reading if you haven't.


"Eat Food, not too much, mostly plants." Michael Pollan


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