Previously a professional triathlete, Rip put his knowledge about health to work and helped them lose weight and lower their cholesterol. Every one of them lost weight with his help.

In his well reviewed book, Engine 2 Diet, he outlines how a plant based whole foods diet is the key to better health and weight loss. I no doubt believe that Rip’s father, internationally renouned cardiologist and author Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, formerly of the famous Cleveland Clinic and a proponent of plant based diet for heart health, was a large influence. Dr. Esselstyn recommends a vegan diet to become ‘heart attack’ proof.

The book includes an excellent selection of low fat plant based recipes along with his plan for a healthy way to lose weight and live.

Here are some actual comments from readers:

“I have been eating the Engine 2 diet for five months. I’ve lost 35 LBS. My cholesterol dropped over 60 points. This was all after a meeting with a doctor who told me my cholesterol would only be slightly lowered by changing my diet. ”

“I love many things about Engine 2. It gives people excellent goals for better health and explains in detail how to achieve those goals. I found the chapter on reading labels extremely helpful, especially the specific criteria for the grocery store aisles. The large recipe section includes many simple everyday dishes and few elaborate dishes. It offers replacements for animal-sourced high-fat workhorses like mayonnaise, salad dressing, and sandwich fillings. The book’s strength is showing how to live this lifestyle every working day. ”

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• Raw Food Recipes
• Easy, Delicious, Lowfat Plant Based Recipes
• Raw Vegan Diet

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Monounsaturated fats are fatty acids, often referred to as “good” or “healthy” fats.

They are found mainly in nuts, avocados, olive oil, tea seed oil, grapeseed oil, ground nut oil, peanut oil, flaxseed oil, sesame oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and tea-oil Camellia.

Monounsaturated fatty acids promote insulin resistance and lower LDL (bad) cholesterol, while raising HDL (good) cholesterol.

It’s good to concentrate most of your fat intake on these good fats, mostly from nuts and avocados and limit your intake of any processed oils, favoring unheated, cold pressed organic virgin olive oil if you use them. Avoid saturated fats and limit your total fat intake to between 10-20% of your diet. Now it’s important to note that this isn’t 10-20% of the total amount of food, but 10-20% of your total caloric intake. So if you eat 2000 calories in a day, you’ll want to limit your fat calories to 200-400 a day.

You’d be surprised how many fat calories these foods contain. Fat contains 9 calories per gram, compared with 4 calories per gram for protein and carbohydrates, so a little goes far! A handful of nuts, one avocado or one tablespoon of oil easily fills your daily requirement.

I often wondered how much fat I was eating in a day compared to my total calories and I was surprised (actually shocked!) how hight it was. Read more about how I found out how many calories I ate in a day and how I measured it quickly. You don’t need to do it every day, just find out what you normally eat and once you measure it for a week, you can estimate your intake regularly.

To your best health!

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• Do You Know How Many Calories You Eat Daily?

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