Click here to return to book details FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Email: publicity@regnery.com Phone: 202-216-0600 FAD DIETS COULD BE DAMAGING YOUR HEART? The Diet Trap and Low-fat Lies from Lifeline Press promotes benefits of a healthy lifestyle, while exposing diet scams. February is American Heart Month and Lifeline Press is informing America of how you can lose weight without sacrificing your health, focus, energy, and control of your life. The Diet Trap: Your seven-week plan to lose weight without losing yourself Pamela Smith, R.D. "No doubt about it, dieting is a national obsession-and problem," says nutritional counselor Pamela Smith, in THE DIET TRAP (Lifeline Press; May 2000; $21.95). "The vast majority of people who go on fad diets gain back all the weight they've lost and more. What's even worse, is that these diets put a serious drain on every organ of your body." Here's another alarming fact most dieters don't know: "With many of these fad diets, the weight you lose is water and muscle, but the pounds you gain back are fat. That's why each time you go on a diet, it's a little bit harder to lose the weight and so much easier to gain it back in all the wrong places." Smith believes that Americans need to stop focusing on what they shouldn’t eat, and start focusing on how to balance their intake in a way that will benefit their bodies and activate their metabolism. The good news is that "we have energy scripted into every cell," says Smith. "With the right plan, it's easy to unleash your body's natural ability to lose weight." According to Smith, the best diet is one that focuses on real foods that you like and can live with, and one that is generous in complex carbohydrates, moderate in lean protein and light on fat. That's the basis of her seven-week "S.M.A.R.T. Weigh" plan: Strategic Eating (a customized eating plan), Movement (exercise), Air & Water (breathing & fluids), Rest, and Treating Yourself Well. Smith's plan carefully describes what and when to eat, plus how to stabilize body chemistries, boost the metabolic burn, handle stress, and release your full energy potential. "Before we risk serious health concerns, Americans need to learn not how to diet, but how to live to lose weight." The Diet Trap features healthful breakfast, lunch, dinner plans; secrets of power snacking; how to re-energize and overcome stress; how to balance your hormones; and, perhaps most importantly, how to nourish your soul by making peace with your own body. Whether it's a need to lose weight, gain weight, or simply to get healthy, THE DIET TRAP offers nutritional reason and words of hope. "When life leaves us hungry, empty and weighted down with stress, the bait is set for the diet trap, " Smith says. "We turn to these miracle diets as a way of regaining control, but the diet ends up controlling us instead." Low-Fat Lies High-Fat Frauds and The Healthiest Diet in The World Kevin Vigilant, MD, MPH, and Mary Flynn, PhD Click here to order from Amazon: Click here to return to book details