It's a medical fact: not all weight is really fat. Much of being overweight is caused by allergy-like food reactions. This "false fat" is easy to put on, but it can be hard to take off. Now you can do it--this week--with The False Fat Diet. All foods have chemical reactions within your body, and some foods just "don't agree with you." These foods cause body swelling and facial puffiness that look like fat. They can also make you feel listless and ill. With the revolutionary False Fat Diet, you cut out these foods and substitute others, following a no-hunger eating strategy. As your false fat melts away, you can lose 5-10 pounds in just a few days--and 10-20 pounds within two or three weeks. Then your metabolism will finally be able to burn true fat--efficiently and steadily--and keep it off. Acclaimed author of the popular classic Staying Healthy with the Seasons, which has helped people become healthier year-round, Dr. Haas is an international expert on diet and integrative medicine. He has seen his 21-day False Fat Diet work wonders in his own life, and in thousands of his patients' lives, for more than a decade. Now, in this reader-friendly, authoritative book, he makes this breakthrough available to everyone. The False Fat Diet takes you step-by-step through an easy, healthy, practical nutritional program that includes - Identifying which foods you react to--and replacing them with the right foods for your body chemistry - The "detox" phase, when you cleanse your system of reactive food substances - "False Fat Week"--the amazing 7-day period when your swelling and puffiness subside, as you lose ten pounds - The Balance Program--a personally customized diet that returns your metabolism to normal, taking pounds off steadily as you reach your ideal weight - Detailed menu plans that give you smart food choices to make over a 21-day interval - Delicious, easy-to-prepare, reaction-free recipes, created with famous French chef Philippe Boulot, that don't drastically cut calories the way other diets do - Expert guidance on reducing stress, finding the right exercise program, and learning how to keep feeling better--and looking slimmer--for life With The False Fat Diet, you will almost immediately look and feel much better, finally free from the common symptoms of food reactions: cravings, irritability, headaches, depression, sinus congestion, heartburn, fatigue, and impaired immunity. You'll have the energy, mental clarity, and good mood you'll need to stay healthy and slim forever. The False Fat Diet is more than a weight-loss program. It's a scientific, healthy, effective, total health regimen that is exciting in its fast results. And because it's individualized, it's the only diet that can work for everyone.

Elson M. Haas, M.D., Medical Director of the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in San Rafael, California, is one of the nation's leading practitioners of integrative medicine. Dr. Haas's highly acclaimed books include Staying Healthy with Nutrition, The Detox Diet (Quality Paperback Book Club Best Health Book, 1998), A Diet for All Seasons, and Staying Healthy with the Seasons. He lives with his family on a farm in Sonoma County, California, where he grows food and raises llamas.<br><br>Cameron Stauth, one of America's leading medical writers, is the author of nine critically acclaimed books, including Brain Longevity, The Pain Cure (both with D. S. Khalsa, M.D.), and The New Approach to Cancer. His many articles have appeared in Esquire, Prevention, and the New York Times Magazine.

I have excellent news. It's something you haven't heard before. It's very important.        

¸  You're not nearly as overweight as you may think. Much of your weight isn't even fat. It's false fat--the bloating and swelling caused by allergy-like food reactions--and you can shed it almost immediately.

¸  This false fat is not your fault. You are not a glutton. You're not lazy. You just have a very common metabolic problem: food reactions.

¸  You can solve this metabolic problem. The problem is not permanent, and it's not hard to correct. You can solve it over the next few days. It need never return.

¸  When you do solve this problem, you'll regain your power over food. As your false fat fades, so will your food cravings and certain metabolic disorders (such as hormone imbalances). Without these food cravings and metabolic disorders, you'll begin to lose your true fat, steadily and surely. Even if you now lack full control over your eating habits, you can take charge again by correcting your food reactions. You can start taking charge today.

I urge you to carefully consider this great news. It will be your key to having complete power over what you eat, and over the biochemical reactions that foods cause in your body. When you have this power, you will have an entirely new way to solve your weight problem.

You have nothing to gain but knowledge, and nothing to lose but the false fat that's hurting your appearance and the true fat that's hurting your health.

When you conquer your food reactions, your appearance, your health, and your zest for life will improve immeasurably. Things will get better because you will make them get better. You will finally have that power. It's true: Knowledge is power.

You really must use the power that this knowledge provides. You owe it to yourself. You're worth it.

And here is why you probably will use this power: Using it will be more pleasant than not using it. For the first time in your life, you are going to enjoy being on a diet. In fact, like most of my patients, you will almost forget that you are on a diet, because the False Fat Diet is quite different from every other diet you've ever been on. It is not based on reducing the quantity of your food. It is based on improving the quality of your food.

This diet is not even ultimately intended to make you thin--it is intended to make you healthy. As I often tell my patients, "If you strive for thin, you'll never win. Strive for health and thin will follow."

Thus, in the conventional sense of the word, this is not even a diet. It is an eating strategy. It's a scientifically designed method of giving you power over food, so that you can make smart food choices.

No one else can make these choices for you, because each of your food choices must be carefully individualized. Every person reacts differently to different foods. You are a unique being with your own special biochemistry and your own one-of-a-kind environment and activities. There is only one you, doing what you do, eating what you eat, and meeting the demands that you meet.

Nonetheless, every other diet you've ever been on has been designed
for other people by other people. They have been one-size-fits-all diets, and that approach simply doesn't work. This time, with The False Fat Diet, you'll help design your own personalized diet, free of your own reactive foods. This diet will be your diet. Yours alone. That's why it will work.

With the help of this book, you'll learn about the qualities and chemistries of various foods. More important, though, you'll learn about your own unique body. You'll learn which foods are good for you and which aren't--and I promise some surprises.

Right now, you may know which foods are healthy for most people. But if you're basing your own food choices on just this knowledge, you may be doing yourself more harm than good--because you are not most people. You're you, and the only diet you'll ever fully succeed on will be your own individualized diet, free of the particular foods that are healthy for most people, but harmful for you.

After years of trying unsuccessfully to lose weight, you may be feeling confused, powerless, frustrated--and hungry. Don't despair! Many of my patients felt like that before they tried this approach. But most of them have succeeded beyond their dreams.

Now it's your turn.

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Excerpted from The False Fat Diet: The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat by Elson M. Haas, Cameron Stauth
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