Whitehart - The Sirt Diet Cookbook

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Text Jacqueline Whitehart 2015
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Version: 2015-12-10 The Recipes Welcome to a new style of diet, which is first and foremost about eating more of the right foods and less of the wrong ones. The SIRT Diet Cookbook is chock-full of diet-friendly advice, planners, tips and fantastic recipes, with everything you need to start eating right today. Im just your average working mum, juggling child commitments and a haphazard career. Along the way I have experimented with many diets: some good (for a time); some disastrous from day one.

I genuinely know how diets work because Ive truly been there I feel like Ive tried them all! I know how you start the day with good intentions, feeling virtuous with a low-calorie breakfast, but are hungry by lunch and ready to scream by teatime. Finally, you sit down at the end of the day with a drink in one hand and a cake in the other, wondering where it all went wrong. I have ended up with a new outlook on dieting and the diet industry. If a diet is all about cutting back and restrictions, its difficult to keep it up for long. One day your willpower just disappears, you crash and burn, and end up feeling like a failure. This diet is different; its all about the superfoods.

SIRT superfoods really do boost your metabolism, converting body fat to energy and breaking the cycle of feast and famine by naturally reducing your cravings for junk food. I have had to believe in myself to come this far on my diet journey. After becoming known as a healthy-eating expert by way of the 5:2 Diet, I started to let my own standards slip as family life got in the way. This led to inevitable weight gain and a huge dip in my confidence. But Ive never been afraid to start again and try new things. I am a self-experimenter by nature so when the opportunity came along to start the SIRT Diet, I couldnt wait.

The results have been extraordinary. Not just weight-loss. My energy levels are up and my skin glows. I feel the best Ive done in years. The SIRT Diet is not just red wine and chocolate. Its also green tea, kale and lots of fruit and vegetables.

Its so straightforward anyone and everyone should follow it. If youre ready to try something new and embrace the SIRT way of eating, you wont regret it. Follow my simple and complete plan and lose weight, tone up and look great.

The SIRT Diet Cookbook teaches you to eat the right foods natural and flavoursome foods as diverse as kale and chocolate that all contain a newly discovered type of superfood, called SIRT foods. SIRT foods are special because they are the key to unlocking significant genes in our bodies the genes that regulate our metabolism and help us to resist disease. The headlines are true: red wine and dark chocolate are both SIRT foods and can help you lose weight.

But behind the headlines there is so much more to this diet and this is what The SIRT Diet Cookbook seeks to explain. Find out what SIRT foods really are, discover the best SIRT foods for you to eat, understand how these superfoods really boost your metabolism and control your food cravings. Best of all, this cookbook is full of simple and amazing recipes that all include these incredible superfoods. Learn how to boost your SIRT foods by adding a few unusual ingredients. Spice things up with turmeric or mellow out with chocolate the choice is yours.

Following three successful books and a popular recipe blog, Ive been an advocate of the two-day fasting diet for years.

But perhaps inevitably Ive got bored of fasting and to be totally honest, Ive found fasting to be harder with less impressive results. In fact my food cravings started to increase, I ate more on days when I wasnt fasting and I started to gain weight. I first found out about SIRT foods while trying to find an easier way to get the results of calorie restriction. In a scientific research paper, I read that there were two ways to activate the insulin-sensitive hormone IGF-1 (the one triggered by 5:2 and fasting). The first was calorie restriction and the second was specific trigger foods. Intrigued, I started to try and find out more.

There hasnt been much about the diet in the press except a few tantalising newspaper articles with headlines shouting Eat more chocolate, drink more red wine. These headlines are an oversimplification of a fantastic truth: Eat SIRT foods such as kale, turmeric and dark chocolate and they will help you lose weight naturally. If it sounds too good to be true, its really not. These super-foods start a chain reaction inside you that makes your metabolism work more efficiently and allows you to make more effective use of the calories you consume. This naturally curbs your appetite, boosts your energy levels and fights inflammation. Theres a lot more about the science behind SIRT foods and their key role in your metabolism in the section What are SIRT foods and why are they special?

Green tea is the top of all SIRT foods, containing a rich source of catechins, the most powerful sirtuin activator scientifically identified.

For this reason, drinking at least two cups of tea a day is considered to be one of the fundamentals of the SIRT Diet. What if youve never tried green tea and dont like the sound of it? You are not alone. Luckily I was in the same boat as you only a short while ago and Ive got the complete guide to learning to love green tea. Take a look at the Living the diet section to find out more. Go on, drink your green tea, eat your chocolate and guzzle your red wine. Look at the amazing benefits they bring: Triggering your metabolism to break down more fat Natural reduction in appetite and hunger pangs Converting fat to muscle without increasing exercise

SIRT foods are super antioxidants that activate the sirtuin genes in our body, producing an increased fat-burning response.

In a nutshell, eating more of these foods will boost your metabolism and help you lose weight faster. THE SIRTUIN GENES There are seven sirtuin genes in humans, imaginatively named SIRT1 to SIRT7. Geneticists have done several studies on the sirtuins and have had positive results relating to increased lifespan, metabolism and anti-ageing. Scientists are only just beginning to understand the function of individual genes and there is a lot still to be done, particularly related to how the genes work together. SIRT1, SIRT3 and SIRT4 function predominantly on the metabolism, with SIRT4 specifically related to insulin sensitivity. SIRT2, SIRT6 and SIRT7 have more anti-ageing tasks related to cell and DNA repair.