I went to the library looking for some inspiration especially towards working out. While
cruising the shelves I found the diet book section. I could not help myself so I started browsing
the titles and wouldn’t you know it, one title jumped out at me and I had to
pick it up.
The Hot Diet.
Billed as the scientific breakthrough that exposes the
cold poison in every glass I had to get it.
It was written by a chemical engineer so I was expecting a breakdown of
how the human body digests food. That is
not what I got.
The first two chapters were pure fluff. There really wasn’t enough material in the
book to write a book about. I will save
you some time and let you know what takes you 60 plus pages to discover (as you
might have guessed) the cold poison is ice.
The best part is all of the so called scientific evidence is anecdotal
at best sketchy at worst.
How did the author, AJ Djo, come up with ice as the
culprit that is making us all fat? You
think he did exhaustive studies on the human stomach and digestive system, but
he didn’t. May be he used careful
control groups and monitored their diets in a controlled environment, but again
you would be wrong.
How he came to this conclusion is quite simple. He had a eureka
moment after he watched 104,000 people eat. He recorded what they ate and
compared it against who was overweight and who wasn’t and what he found was
that fat people drink iced drinks with their dinner and skinny people drank hot
drinks like tea. Any real scientist, or
someone like myself who remembers 8th grade science class,
knows you have to have a control. By
just watching 104,000 people eat he didn’t take any of the variables such as
life style or how many calories were consumed.
My favorite part of the book was when he assured you that
while the “hot diet” works and you will be melting the pounds away just by
drinking hot beverages with dinner and eating your salad at room temperature ,
you will only really see results if you exercise 15 to 30 minutes a day. That is when I had my eureka moment.
No matter what diet book you read they always tell you
that the real key to weight loss is exercise.
Then they give you a “jump start” 28 to 30 day menu to follow, which if
you do, of course you will lose weight.
The recommended menu is always based on calorie restriction.
I haven’t even gotten to how he tells you get take
control of your child if they are over weight. Again I will spare you and give
the secret away. He repeats the adult
section of the book. Really that’s it.
So three hundred pages and a few hours that I will never get back and
that is the “hot diet.” I will say avoid
this book at all costs.
Daily Recap:
Matt – 35 Min Jog
Kelly – 75 Min Walk
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