Description
The New X Diet
Following the massive success of my original best seller, The X Diet (1998), I decided to write an updated version with even more information in it. In a world where people have become terrified of eating ‘the wrong thing’ through pseudoscience and social media crazes, I believe that it is even more important to learn and understand exactly HOW the body works with regard different foods. Metabolism and weight control is an incredibly complex interplay between hormones, physiology, genetics and eating patterns, and most CERTAINLY is NOT dependent on how many calories or how much carbohydrates are eaten!
Take a trip through your body’s metabolic pathways in a fun (and funny!) way, and start thinking like a dietician. I’ll show you how eating MORE of the right (and delicious!) things, will help control blood sugar levels, reduce lifestyle disorders, burn fat and maintain metabolic function for long-term success.
Treat your body the way it deserves. And enjoy it HUGELY in the process. Food should be fun, happy and loving!
The X Diet Cookbook
Tabitha Hume, registered Clinical Dietician shows you over 150 scrumptious fat-free recipes
Women and food
Depression is an extremely common illness, and can strike as many as 15% of the population at some stage in their lives. Depression is roughly twice to three times as common in females as males, although the reason for this is not clear. It is possible that this difference relates to societal role and identity issues, or it may relate to innate biological differences that are poorly understood.
What is increasingly overwhelmingly demonstrated by recent research advances is that depression is a disease, with measurable changes in a vast number of areas. Perhaps the most important are alterations in the brains chemical transmitter systems, and a huge body of literature exists documenting these changes in a large number of neurotransmitters. In addition, changes in brain metabolism and blood flow patterns have been replicated in many studies. These changes tend to reverse on successful treatment. It is part of folklore that “you are run down, that’s why you have caught the bug”; new research unequivocally shows that one’s immune system is altered in depression.