How to Fight FATflammation!: A Revolutionary 3-Week Program to Shrink the Body's Fat Cells for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss

by Lori Shemek PhD

Overview

From a leading voice in health, nutrition, and fat-cell research comes a radical and revolutionary approach to losing weight, looking great, and achieving optimum health—simply by restoring your body's fat cells to their natural state.

Are you consistently overweight, no matter what you do? Have you tried everything? Are you plagued by stubborn fat hanging around your hips, thighs, and belly? Well, there's a reason for that. All those frustratingly pointless diets and exercise regimes have failed to address the root cause of weight gain.

According to Dr. Lori Shemek, a successful diet isn't centered on calories or cardio. She says, "Cutting calories doesn't cut it." Our problems with fat are created because we eat foods that cause the body's natural fat cells to become inflamed. Sadly, the staples of the Standard American Diet—from pasta and bread to factory-farmed chicken and cattle, from sugar and artificial sweeteners to salad dressing and soft drinks—irritate our fat cells, causing chronic inflammation and chronically oversized fat cells. This irritation causes the body to store fat permanently, no matter how hard you exercise or how diligently you cut back on calories.

Dr. Shemek calls this serious condition FATflammation, and only when you decrease the inflammation of the fat cells can you achieve the weight loss and optimum health you've been chasing. We need to forget about counting calories, counting points, fad diets, no-fat diets, and spending countless hours at the gym. There is a better and more satisfying way to lose the fat and maintain your desired weight. "If we want to fix our problems with fat," Shemek writes, "we need to reduce the inflammation in our fat cells." In How to Fight FATflammation Shemek reveals her revolutionary three-week program that helps reboot your body chemistry by returning your body's fat cells back to their natural, healthy state. In the process, she explains the critical importance of maintaining balance between good fats (omega-3) and bad fats (omega-6) and how a proper ratio of both will help boost your metabolism; in short, your body will burn fat simply by your eating the right kinds of fat. She also helps you eliminate from your diet the dreaded FATflammation Four—sugar, refined grains, high-fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners. Here's your chance to shrink your fat cells and get the body you always wanted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062347541
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/26/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	509,531
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lori Shemek, Ph.D., is a leading researcher in fat cells and the owner of DLS Healthworks. Her work has been featured in Ladies’ Home Journal, Shape, Woman’s Day, The Rikki Lake Show, ABC, CNN, NPR, FOX News, and The Huffington Post, which recognized her as one of the nation’s top diet and nutrition experts.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part 1 How Fatflammation Makes You Fat

Chapter 1 Why Cutting Calories Doesn't Cut It 7

Chapter 2 Are You Overfed and Undernourished? 19

Chapter 3 Fat: Three Little Letters That Carry a Lot of Weight 28

Part 2 Getting Rid of FATFlammation: Your Game Plan

Chapter 4 Break Up with the FATflammation Four 53

Chapter 5 Burn Fat by Eating (the Right) Fat 74

Chapter 6 Beat Sluggish Metabolism, FATflammation's BFF 86

Chapter 7 Be Kind to Bugs 99

Chapter 8 Beware the Bane of Grain 108

Part 3 The Fatflammation-Free Diet Program

Chapter 9 Starting a FATflammation-Free Life 119

Chapter 10 Stock Your Kitchen with FATflammation-Free Food 132

Chapter 11 The FATflammation-Free Diet 3-Week Program 148

Chapter 12 Week One-Getting Started 159

Chapter 13 Week Two-Getting Ahead 169

Chapter 14 Week Three-Gaining Mastery 179

Part 4 FATflammation Free Forever!

Chapter 15 The FATflammation-Free Lifestyle 191

Chapter 16 It Takes More Than a Diet 199

Chapter 17 Don't Forget About Supplements 212

Appendix: Allowed Foods and Recipes

FATflammation-Free Complete Foods List 221

FATflammation-Free Diet Program Recipes 230

End Note to Readers 271

Acknowledgments 272

Selected Bibliography 274

Index 287

Editorial Reviews

How to Fight FATflammation leverages the newly discovered relationship between gut bacteria and signaling systems in body fat to provide a rock solid program to curtail inflammation and enhance weight loss as well.” — David Perlmutter, MD, author of Grain Brain

“Inflammation forms the root of nearly every disease and creates weight loss resistance. In her new book, Lori Shemek provides a groundbreaking three-week plan that reduces inflammation to help you gain perfect health and fast, lasting fat loss.” — JJ Virgin, author of Sugar Impact Diet

“It can’t be said any simpler. When we are inflamed we are unwell, overweight and hopeless. Finding our way back to health may be as easy as quashing inflammation.” — Tosca Reno, New York Times bestselling author and Founder of the Eat-Clean Diet®

From the Publisher

Inflammation forms the root of nearly every disease and creates weight loss resistance. In her new book, Lori Shemek provides a groundbreaking three-week plan that reduces inflammation to help you gain perfect health and fast, lasting fat loss.

JJ Virgin

It can’t be said any simpler. When we are inflamed we are unwell, overweight and hopeless. Finding our way back to health may be as easy as quashing inflammation.

Tosca Reno

How to Fight FATflammation leverages the newly discovered relationship between gut bacteria and signaling systems in body fat to provide a rock solid program to curtail inflammation and enhance weight loss as well.

David Perlmutter