The Thermogenic Diet

There are literally hundreds of diets, but how do you know which one really works? This book is the product of helping thousands of people improve their health. 'The Thermogenic Diet' explains which foods can increase your metabolism to help you lose weight and keep it off! Over 95% of people who diet will regain most of the body fat they have lost. Have you ever wondered why? Have you been confused about how food causes weight gain? Then this book is for you! 'The Thermogenic Diet' uses sound nutrition principles to control hunger and cravings so that you achieve great weight loss for life! - 'eat right, have fun, live well'.

Most people assume that all calories are the same – the calories written on the side of a box of cereal directly equate to the amount of energy that is available to our bodies, however this is not the case.

'The Thermogenic Diet' explains that all calories aren't the same and by making changes to the types of food we eat, we can help our bodies burn fat more effectively.

The diet is based on the thermogenic effect of food – that is, the heat created in the process of digesting food. As you eat, food must go through a number of steps to break down, become absorbed, and metabolised. Effectively, it is the combustion process that our body undertakes when digesting food, a little like how the engine in your car works.

But our bodies are not perfect engines. The energy produced from the combustion of a food is not the same as the amount of energy that is available to our body. This is the concept of 'metabolisable energy', or the difference between the energy from the food we eat and the energy left after digestion and metabolism.