The X-Factor Diet

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The X-Factor Diet For Lasting Weight Loss & Vital Health
By Leslie Kenton

Forget calorie counting, shed fat naturally forever, optimise your health and vitality, reset your metabolism, create a stronger, leaner body and slow the ageing process.

Pioneering health writer Leslie Kenton's revolutionary new nutritional program reveals how the low fat, high carbohydrate diet we are still being urged to eat may literally be killing us. Based on cutting edge scientific research, The X-Factor Diet reveals how the newly discovered metabolic disorder called Syndrome X or insulin resistance, is largely to blame for rising levels of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. Banish Syndrome X and you will not only look and feel better, you can also become lean at last for life and help prevent degenerative diseases and slow the ageing process.

The X-Factor Diet helps restore in three major ways:

Re-establishing the balance between good quality protein; slow release, low glycaemic/low density carbohydrates; healthy fats and phytonutients which the human body is genetically coded to thrive on.

Increasing the level of Omega 3 fats in our bodies. These are essential for the body to function efficiently and to protect us from degeneration.

Establishing a moderate exercise program incorporating weight-resistance. This will increase our energy by building muscle and creating a leaner, sleeker shape.

That's all well and good, but what is Syndrome X?

Syndrome X is a cluster of metabolic disorders, which often results from living for along time on a typical Western diet of convenience foods riddled with hidden sugars and junk fats as well as processed grains and starchy vegetables. Extensive research by other scientists indicates that Syndrome X is reaching epidemic proportions and causing big health problems in the Western world including soaring obesity. Scientists examining the effects of low fat/high carb diets insist that, contrary to popular belief, these are the foods that make us fat in the first place.

But how?

Syndrome X is also known as insulin resistance. The primary abnormality which links together all the disorders associated with the syndrome is amounting insensitivity to the hormone insulin at a cellular level. The human body evolved to eat a Palaeolithic diet rich in non-starchy vegetables and plant nutrients, top quality proteins and omega 3 fats. Today, we stress our systems with so much high-density carbohydrate that the high levels of glucose triggered by such foods flood our cells with insulin, the hormone that helps the body turn carbohydrate into energy. Our bodies become unresponsive to the hormone so our pancreas secretes more and more of it in an attempt to get energy into the cells. Unable to turn this excess glucose into energy, the body lays it down as fat.

The good news is the process can be reversed.

The X Factor Diet uses two programs which have the same goal: to help you shed excess fat permanently while regenerating your body, restoring vitality and enhancing your health.

1. Ketogenics: For women with more than 35% body fat and men with more than 22%. This is a scientifically based method for kick-starting your body into fat-burning mode. It is based on a calorific ration of 50:20:30 with 50% of calories coming from protein, 20% from low glycaemic/low density (slow release) carbohydrates and 30% from healthy fats lots of Omega 3s. Each meal will be made up of two parts protein to one part low glycaemic vegetables.
2. Insulin Balance: A program for women with less than 35% body fat and men with less than 22%. Insulin Balance is based on a moderate carbohydrate and adequate protein diet. The diet will reduce your intake of grains, improve the kind of fats you eat and introduce a calorific ration of 35:35:30 for top quality proteins, low glycaemic index carbohydrates and health-enhancing fats at each meal. Each meal will be made up of one part protein to two parts carbohydrates.

In addition to the diet programs, The X-Factor Diet includes:

Chapters on eating out and entertaining while following the diet

Flexible eating plans and delicious X-Factor recipes

A guide to exercise and weight resistance programs which will build a stronger, leaner body

An 'Idiot's Guide' section that answers all your questions on the safety and practicalities of the programs

Scientific and clinical research to support the diet including how The X-Factor diet program differs greatly both in its health-enhancing and fat-loss abilities from diets like the Dr Atkins diet and Zone diet.

If you've ever struggled to lose weight, craved sugary foods or experienced that 11am/4pm energy slump then The X-Factor Diet is for you.

About the Author:

Leslie Kenton's name is synonymous with cutting edge natural health. An award winning writer, novelist, broadcaster, photographer, teacher and filmmaker she is well know for her pioneering research and in-depth reporting. Leslie was Health and Beauty Editor for Harpers & Queen for 14 years and is a regular contributor to many magazines, newspapers and broadcast programs. She lectures regularly and has been honoured by being invited to deliver the McCarrison Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Leslie Kenton has written over 30 bestselling books on health including the ground-breaking "Raw energy Diet", "The New Raw Energy", "The New Ageless Ageing", "Passage to Power" and "Ten Steps to a New You". She also created the worldwide ORIGINS product range for Estee Lauder and other health and beauty ranges as well as acting as a consultant for European Parliament and companies such as Boots in the UK, L'Oreal in Paris and Unilever in the USA. Leslie is the daughter of American jazz musician, Stan Kenton and the mother of four children.

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