Younger Next Week: Your Ultimate Rx to Reverse the Clock, Boost Energy and Look and Feel Younger in 7 Days – An Expert Nutrition Guide for Health and Wellness - Softcover

Zied, Elisa

 
9780373892839: Younger Next Week: Your Ultimate Rx to Reverse the Clock, Boost Energy and Look and Feel Younger in 7 Days – An Expert Nutrition Guide for Health and Wellness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0373892837 ISBN 13: 9780373892839
Verlag: Harlequin Nonfiction, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The Fast, Fun, Delicious Way to Fight Aging 

A radiant appearance. Boundless energy. Effortless weight management. Supercharged health and well-being. Forget facelifts and fancy wrinkle creams—the fountain of youth is in the foods you eat and simple exercises and behaviors that will turn back the clock. Acclaimed nutritionist and wellness expert Elisa Zied shows you how to jump-start weight loss, reduce stress, improve sleep, banish mood swings and love the vibrant woman you see in the mirror. Discover how to: 

* Nix the habits that age you (some will surprise you!) 

* Fuel yourself with age-defying, nutrient-rich foods 

* Relax and decompress with dozens of Stressipes 

* Revitalize your life with exercises that put the brakes on aging 

* Eat and enjoy 30 easy-to-make, delicious recipes 

Featuring The 7-Day Vitality Plan, complete with menus, exercise guidelines and lifestyle solutions, Younger Next Week is your surgery-free solution to look and feel younger in just one week.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elisa Zied, MS, RD, CDN is an award-winning registered dietitian and nutritionist. She has been featured on the Today show, Good Morning America and The Early Show and has written for Parents, Redbook and Woman’s Day. A past spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, she writes The Scoop on Food blog for Parents.com, writes for USNews.com, and is an advisory board member for Parents magazine. Visit her at www.elisazied.com.

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INTRODUCTION

With our revved-up lifestyles, suddenly precarious career paths, piled-up household duties and the constant pings from our mobile devices, it's no surprise that feeling "stressed out" has become the new normal for too many women in this relatively new century. According to the 2012 Stress in America survey by the American Psychological Association, women are more likely than men to say their already high stress levels continue to rise. The survey found that 34 to 45 percent of women in the United States reported that stress makes them feel fatigued, nervous, anxious and overwhelmed. Their high stress levels result in a lack of interest in everyday activities and sap their motivation and energy. Women reported that stress makes them cry, gives them headaches and leaves them sleepless at night, staring at the ceiling. Moreover, 46 percent said that they cope with stress by overeating or eating unhealthy foods, and 31 percent said they skip meals to manage stress, which can actually exacerbate stress and affect how women look and feel from day to day.

These results are supported by the nearly one hundred forty-something and older women who responded to my Vitality Survey(you'll see their stories featured throughout the book, though I've changed their names to keep their identities private). More than 50 percent said that when life gets overwhelming, they turn to comfort foods, caffeinated energy boosters, alcohol and other vitality robbers. Some women say they overindulge in high-fat, high-sugar, high-calorie comfort foods (think chocolate, muffins, chips, and good ole mac and cheese). Some guzzle lots of high-calorie coffee drinks (a 460-calorie Java Chip Frappuccino, anyone?), sodas (364 calories in a Big Gulp from 7-Eleven) or energy drinks (three 110-calorie Red Bulls equal a major problem) for a quick pick-me-up.

Other women drink alcohol (three Long Island Iced Teas add up to nearly 900 calories) to calm down. Some women skip meals, and when they finally do eat, they grab cookies, ice cream, candy or even their kids' Goldfish crackers, most often swallowed on the run. While these eating habits may give us a temporary energy boost or a momentary burst of mental clarity, ultimately they cause us to crash and give rise to fatigue and brain fog. They also may contribute to a bulging waistline, drooping skin and unpredictable mood swings. These methods of coping ultimately increase our body's stress response, leaving us more likely to catch that cold that's going around, and elevate our risk for serious disease.

Do these women sound like you, even a little bit? I wrote Younger Next Week?which provides a road map to help you look and feel your best, no matter how challenging, complicated or stressful your life can be?to help you feel empowered each and every day, no matter how many curveballs life throws at you. And, true confession, I also wrote it to help myself, a forty-four-year-old "multitasker" with a professional career, a husband and two children. I needYounger Next Week as much as you do.

Younger Next Week puts the brakes on vitality sappers and helps you recapture your youthful, energetic, positive spirit. I poured through hundreds of scientific studies (so that you don't have to) about diet, fitness and health to pinpoint what really works. I drew on my experience as a practicing dietitian for nearly twenty years, during which time I've helped hundreds of women, and on my real-life experience as a working mother, a freelance writer, an author and a public speaker, to create theYounger Next Week lifestyle plan.

In Part II of this book, the Vitality Program, I share my groundbreaking Vitality Diet, which incorporates Vital Foods in appropriate portions to help you feel physically and mentally energized as you achieve, and maintain, a healthier body weight. When you follow the Vitality Diet, you can rest assured there's a sound scientific foundation for all the recommendations. Based on current science-based dietary guidelines and emerging research, the Vitality Diet is not meant to be a rigid prescription for how to eat, but rather a flexible, realistic plan that you can follow and tweak to meet your personal food preferences and lifestyle. The Vitality Diet includes many of the most common, widely available foods?some that may surprise you?to help make it realistic to follow and easy to maintain. After all, you should not have to buy pricey "fad" foods to eat a vitality-boosting diet.

In Part III of this book, Vitality for Life, I help you put the research and the diet into action with my 7-Day Vitality Plan (outlined in Chapter i2)?yes, youwill look and feel younger in just one week!?and with my delicious kitchen-tested Vital Recipes (see Chapter 13), many of which take fifteen minutes or less to prepare. Along with diet guidance, the 7-Day Vitality Plan features exercise and lifestyle advice designed to decrease stress and increase vitality. (Don't worry. No gym is required.) In Chapter 14 you'll find even more Vitality Menu Ideas to help you feel satisfied. You'll also find Stressipes (rhymes with recipes)?food, fitness and lifestyle remedies?sprinkled throughout the book to help you better manage or cope with stress, the greatest vitality buster, and turn intentions to eat and live better into tangible actions.

On Twitter and Facebook, I encourage women to "move it or lose it" (#moveitorloseit), meaning move more in their regular daily life?not just when they're at the gym or in a fitness class. Staying active is essential for healthy muscles and bones, and it helps dampen your mental and physical response to everyday stressors, which can contribute to those less than healthy coping behaviors. My exercise philosophy is not about staying active to "lose weight"; it's about staying active so you don't "lose" your mind and your sanity. Getting enough sleep is also crucial to a more vital you, and Younger Next Week shows you how to eat (and drink) and live in a way that enhances?rather than sabotages?your ability to sleep well.

Whether you are approaching forty years old or are closer to fifty years old (or are north of that), my goal in sharingYounger Next Week is to help you feel your best, no matter your age. So, with thanks and much love, I present you withYounger Next Week. I sincerely hope that after reading my book and applying its food, fitness, and lifestyle principles to your life each and every day, you move?without trepidation or fear, but with excitement?toward, dare I say, embracing and celebrating your age on each birthday you're blessed to enjoy.

At forty-four years old, I feel better than ever. By using the tools in Younger Next Week, so can you. You are truly in the driver's seat when it comes to the way you view the world and live your life?even when things seem to be out of control. It's up to you to nourish, care for and preserve your body, your soul and your mind the best way you can, and to see yourself as someone who is truly worth more than her weight?or age?in gold.

~Elisa

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR VITALITY?

Happy forty-fourth birthday! Yeah, right. When my friend Claire recently rang in this milestone, she told me she felt like it could have been her fifty-fourth birthday, and to be honest, poor Claire was looking a little worn down. It's no surprise why. She constantly runs after three rambunctious and spirited kids under the age of ten, one of whom has ADHD and always gets into trouble at school. Some days Claire says she feels like a designated taxi driver, shuttling all her kids to and from school, soccer practices and playdates, and her special needs son to and from medical appointments. Her husband, who finally found a new job after being out of work for two years, brings home less than half his former salary. Because he's also...

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Verlag
Harlequin Nonfiction
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0373892837
ISBN 13 
9780373892839
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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