Get lean, stay lean: the 6-step program for a happier, healthier body, for life

Description

Get Lean, Stay Lean is not a program with an end date - it's a way of life. It's not about being perfect or becoming some sort of health evangelist. It's a doable, realist, joyful and delicious way of living a life that aligns with great health, vitality and weight control. Get Lean shows readers how to reboot their body's 'computer'. By adopting certain dietary and lifestyle changes, you really can change the way your body works, for the better. You can make yourself better at burning fat, better at controlling your appetite, better at controlling blood glucose and insulin levels, better at performing exercise, better at performing at work while still having the energy you need to enjoy your life. This books will take readers on a journey of understanding, first what makes it so hard to be a healthy weight in the modern work - what experts are calling an 'obesigenic environment'. It discusses the genetic influences on body weight, but more importantly the latest research on epigenetics. Genes are not necessarily our destiny and set in stone. They are more like a dimmer light switch - they can be switched on or off, or ramped up or down - and the controllers of our genes are our diet and our chosen lifestyle.