Tosca Reno - The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged: Lasting Fat Loss Thats Better than Ever!

80% NUTRITION + 10% TRAINING + 10% GENETICS = BODY BEAUTIFUL/BODY HEALTHY

Nutrition is far more responsible for creating your shape and your health than you ever could have imagined.

If you have been reading correctly you may be wondering if I have made a typo with this formula. 80% nutrition shapes a lean healthy body? Really!? I know you are asking yourself this because I have done countless seminars where I have quizzed the audience on what number they would assign to nutrition. Virtually everyone thinks it is 10% nutrition and 80% training. I have to admit that before I discovered Eating Clean I thought that too. I also believed that you had to be genetically gifted to own a killer physique. In some ways you do have to live with the genetic package your parents gave you, but nutrition is far more responsible for creating your shape and your health than you ever could have imagined.

If you have trouble believing food is the primary factor in shaping your physique and consequently your health, lets consider the opposite the current state of health and fitness affairs in North America. For the first time in the history of this country, researchers find themselves wondering whether children will lead shorter lives than their parents because of ever-expanding waistlines and the prevalence of what I like to call anti-foods. Obesity is burgeoning here and in the rest of the world, where it is in fact exploding not only with fat but with disease. There are numerous causes for this problem but the most significant include the quality of the food we consume and the toxic food environment in which we live. Both of these subjects could fill the pages of book after book and I predict they soon will.

The landscape of eating has changed. Food corporations see people like me and you as a free-for-all market of hungry consumers upon whose backs they would like very much to profit. Hence a fast food, drive-thru, get-it-quick, super size it, pull-up-to-the-buffet-and-stuff-yourself attitude toward food. By presenting food at every opportunity, from school cafeterias to hospitals, a toxic food-saturated culture results with no idea of how to stop the madness (as Susan Powter used to say). Its eat, eat, eat, and the more we eat, the better. You cant order a plain black coffee today without the server asking if you are sure, absolutely sure, you dont want sugar and cream. Even when you say, No thanks, just black, they bring the dreaded sugar and cream anyway! An egg white omelet is, by definition, low fat, and the mere idea of putting cheese on it is laughable if you are already avoiding at least some of the yolks, but a chef hardly knows what to do with himself if you ask for it without, so he loads on the cheddar anyway because heaven forbid you dont get your moneys worth!

The quest to eat more food and the biggest size to get the best value possible has brought us partly to the place where we cant see our weight on the scale anymore. The other problem is the quality of food we are presented with. Our food has literally been doused with chemicals at every stage of its life from seed to consumption so much so that even at this point (some 40 years after the food explosion began) we still dont have any idea what the results of such chemical warfare are or will be. But one thing is certain, at least from the visual standpoint. Two out of every three North Americans are overweight or obese and the problem is only getting worse.

Two out of every three North Americans are overweight or obese and the problem is only getting worse.

Lets go back to the Body Beautiful/Body Healthy Formula, where I asked you to believe me when I suggest that nutrition is 80 percent responsible for shaping your physique and your health. Good or bad, the proof is all around you. Ask yourself, if you continue what you are doing and continue eating what you are eating, will you look and feel any different five years down the road?

Finally, you have an obligation to be a much more active human being than you are now. If you accept the Eat-Clean lifestyle you will certainly shed unwanted pounds, but you will still be just a leaner version of your current self. A vigorous strength training and moderate cardiovascular exercise program is needed to round out the renovation of your new physique. You will find guidance for implementing the Eat-Clean lifestyle into your home in every page of this book.