The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet [antikvár]

IntroductionWriting The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet is the cumulative result of decades of research into the role of inflammation in aging and age-related diseases, including obesity. In many ways this is the most exciting and revolutionary book that I have written to date. Scientists are rapidly acknowledging the role of inflammation in many diseases and chronic conditions. However, I believe this will be the first book that will clearly demonstrate how this subclinical, microscopic, invisible inflammation is responsible for a great number of metabolic problems, resulting in accelerated aging, serious health threats, unwanted weight gain, and obesity.If this was not bad enough news for adults, there is now alarming new evidence that this diet-related inflammation is also causing weight gain and obesity in young children and adolescents, resulting in diseases and conditions such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome (discussed in detail in Chapter 6), which normally do not manifest until much later in life.The alarming epidemic of obesity in this country has led the National Institutes of Health and other leading health organizations to revise the food pyramid we all learned in school. Now, for example, they are recommending a significant increase in the amounts of fruits and vegetables we eat, a move I heartily endorse, because these