The Mindful Meals Diet uncovers the reasons why diets don’t work—ancient genetic food drives and unhealthy eating habits. The genes that permitted our ancestors to survive, during the period when calories were scarce, motivated them to prefer high calorie fats, sweets and more calories. These same ‘obesity’ genes are out of sync with present day needs, but still drive our food preferences.
The Mindful Meals Diet acknowledges our urges and satisfies our genes with healthy types of fat, sweets, and calories. It adopts the diet of the world’s longest living and healthiest peoples, by blending the best and tastiest foods from the Mediterranean, Asian and Okinawa diets. However, it is unrealistic to think that our unhealthy eating habits, encouraged by the availability of high calorie foods, can be changed by will power.
Because we are creatures of habit and food preference is learned, the only successful way to a long term diet is to develop healthy eating habits. To meet this requirement, the book provides a step by step program of mind/body interventions directed at developing healthy eating habits. These interventions include; mindful eating, relaxation response, self-hypnosis and self guided imagery.
Dawn Kelsch, BA Computer Science. Overweight or not, this book is an innovative guide for a healthy weight loss and/or a healthy life based on studies of the best food sources and eating habits from around the world. Mental conditioning tools are taught to enable this way of healthy eating to stick! This book also takes a new approach at discussing why many of us are overweight and the best way to change that and live a long life. It is far from a typical weight loss book!
The market is flooded with diet books, books that help for short and painful periods of time but never lead to a paradigm shift in the way you view food. Changing your weight forever, with health as your key objective, requires a shift in who you are and how you view food. Will power battles will succeed only in making you feel badly about yourself, the goal is to permanently change your relationship with food. In Jim Baird's book, "The Mindful Meals Diet," he explains the genetic variables involved in weight by explaining the historical, genetic link of our nutritional history. He offers you the chance to leave current habits behind and learn healthier ones through a comprehensive approach using mulitple techniques. This book offeres usable material to effect life altering changes toward health and away from disease.