Gene Smart Diet » (First Edition)

FLOYD H. CHILTON, PHD, is founder and former director of Wake Forest’s program in molecular medicine and currently serves as director of the NIH-funded Wake Forest and Brigham and Women’s Center for Botanical Lipids. The author of numerous scientifi c articles and the book Inflammation Nation, he lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

LAURA TUCKER has written books on a wide range of topics including health and medicine. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.

The Gene Smart Diet is going to challenge all that you know about the relationship between genetics, weight gain, and disease risk. In the process, it's going to change your health and your life, for the better.

True, your genes help determine how much you weigh, whether you're prone to certain diseases, even whether you live to a ripe old age. But your genes are not an indelible blueprint-far from it! You help decide which genes express themselves and in what way, largely by what you're putting on your plate.

The Gene Smart Diet emphasizes the foods that your genes recognize and love. In the right mix and portions, these foods and their component nutrients communicate with your genes over complex genetic pathways, setting the course for lasting weight loss and optimum health.

Each day of the 5-week plan features a complete menu, with every meal and snack developed to Gene Smart guidelines. Rest assured, it isn't your typical diet food. On Gene Smart, you'll feel full and satisfied. You won't believe that you can eat like this and still lose weight.

But losing weight is just the beginning of what The Gene Smart Diet can do for you. By improving key biomarkers, it produces real reductions in your likelihood of developing certain chronic diseases-including those commonly attributed to aging. in fact, eating the Gene Smart way can help slow the aging process itself.

Grounded in cutting-edge science, proven to produce results, The Gene Smart Diet is the solution you've been waiting for-and the last diet you'll ever need.

Introduction: The Fountain of Youth: It Was Right in Front of Us the Whole Time vi

Part 1 The Surprising Driver Behind Obesity, Disease, and Premature Aging

Chapter One Shock and Awe: The Inflammatory Pandemic 3

Chapter Two Help! I Can't Stop Eating! 11

Chapter Three Old Before Our Time 22

Chapter Four The Hungry Mouse: A Scientific Mystery Solved 34

Chapter Five Flipping the Switch to Health: The Master Health Regulators 50

Part 2 The Bioactive Prescription

Chapter Six CR Mimetics: Results without Hunger 59

Chapter Seven The Bioactives: Nature's Drugstore 66

Chapter Eight Stretched to the Limit 74

Chapter Nine Diet and the Master Health Regulators 85

Chapter Ten Hunter-Gatherer, Meet the Fast-Food Nation 95

Part 3 The Gene Smart Solutions

Chapter Eleven Gene Smart Solution #1: Reduce Calories 103

Chapter Twelve Gene Smart Solution #2: Exercise to Fight Inflammation 117

Chapter Thirteen Gene Smart Solution #3: Add Fiber 127

Chapter Fourteen Gene Smart Solution #4: Correct the Omega Fats 142

Chapter Fifteen Gene Smart Solution #5: Increase Your Polyphenols 168

Chapter Sixteen What Gene Smart Can Do for You 186

Part 4 The Gene Smart Diet

Chapter Seventeen Starting Gene Smart 201

Chapter Eighteen Following Gene Smart 214

Chapter Nineteen Losing Weight on Gene Smart 244

Conclusion 329

About Gene Smart Compassion 331

Acknowledgments 334

Reference List 335

Index 351