It’s one of the most straightforward plans since the reason most people gain weight is that they eat more calories than they burn. So restricting calories and increasing activity will help in weight loss.

But it’s also important to remember that the type of foods eaten are also vital to the success of any healthy living lifestyle.

Along with restricting calories, it’s important to focus your diet on high nutrient dense, fresh and locally or organically grown produce, primarily fruits and vegetables. Eating these will increase cleansing of the body riding it of toxins and at the same time, release extra fat. They are also fiber rich and full of living enzymes vital to proper digestion and assimilation of nutrients. Processed and cooked foods lake these living enzymes and clog up your system instead.

Learn more about healthy meals and how to lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks as well as the vegetable diet.

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By using Epigenetics, according to D’Adamo, the GenoType Diet helps a person understand that the decisions he or she makes everyday will affect his or her body.

According to D’Adamo, it’s basically helping you understand how the series of choices you make throughout your life effects your body. It’s not really a diet book he notes, it’s just an easy way to eat healthy.

There are specific foods, exercises and supplements for each of the 8 ‘GenoType’s’.

But does it have to be that complicated?

Personally, I’m not sure.

Genetics do play a part in what works best for your body. Personally I know that certain fats affect me differently than others. Certain foods digest easier and I take better to certain types of exercise.

Others have also commented on why it’s necessary to get so detailed rather than working with the larger picture. And some of the recommended foods are not commonly known as ‘health foods’. For example, certain cheeses are considered ’superfoods’. Again, any kind of cheese is mucus building, processed and certainly not a cleansing and energizing food. So, many of the recommendations aren’t what I consider healthy.

However, I do know this much. In general, you have to follow a simple set of guidelines to live a healthy life. You can’t eat as much processed, fatty and sugary foods and be healthy.

The specific recommendations made by the author may be helpful as long as you include the following:

• concentrate on a diet of mostly fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seed and natural, living grains
• reduce or eliminate the effects of stress in your life
• drink lots of water
• stay active every day
• eliminate processed, convenient and most animal foods from your diet
• choose organic foods as much as possible
• get plenty of sleep

Using these suggestions alone will trigger weight loss, more energy, clearer thinking and just feeling better.

To read more about The GenoType Diet visit Amazon.

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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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