Arnot - The Aztec Diet: Chia Power: The Superfood that Gets You Skinny and Keeps You Healthy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BOB ARNOT , physician and avid chia advocate, is a New York Times bestselling author and has written fourteen previous books on nutrition and health topics. Arnot has been a medical correspondent for NBC Nightly News , Dateline NBC , the Today show, CBS Evening News , 60 Minutes , and CBS This Morning , and he is a health columnist for Mens Journal . He lives in Palm Beach, Florida, and spends his winters in Vermont.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Id like to make the following acknowledgments:

HALEY NOLDE has put herculean effort into improving and organizing this manuscript. Haley is an incredibly gifted writer with a staggering ability to write clearly and cleanly. She has made this book both inspirational and fun. Haley lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three children. For fifteen years shes written for newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, and websites. Haleys passion for putting words on paper; her enthusiasm for feeding her family fresh, healthy, whole foods; her love of running, swimming, yoga, and pretty much any athletic endeavor made her a perfect partner for this project.

LISA SHARKEY has created more literary stars than Oprah. As producer on GMA and now senior vice president and director of creative development at HarperCollins, Lisa has an incredible gift for picking winning concepts and shepherding them into bestselling books. Lisa was a tremendous help in shaping and positioning the book. Her infectious enthusiasm and dedication carried the day.

AMY BENDELL was the books day-to-day editor and resource. Amy was always fun, cheerful, and incredibly helpful. Amys knowledge and stress-free approach to editing made the book great and the job highly enjoyable. Her insights and direction were invaluable.

ALAN MORELL, my loyal agent of many years, shepherded The Aztec Diet through the key New York publishers and found a welcome home for it at HarperCollins. Alan has an incredible knowledge of the book marketplace and was of enormous assistance throughout the process.

MARY CORPENING BARBER AND SARA CORPENING WHITEFORD crafted the smoothies in this book. Theyre both inspirational mothers and gifted recipe writers. They created the art of the smoothie. Im incredibly grateful to them for putting me together with Haley and for their friendship and guidance.

WALTER WILLETT and his team at Harvard are the best nutrition scientists of their generation and have set a standard for many to come. I await Walters newest papers as I would a new bestseller. His work on glucose load and inflammation inspired the key principles in this book.

DEAN ORNISH has been an inspiration to me and has brought great credibility to the fields of nutrition and disease prevention with both his imagination and his rigorous scientific method. His pioneering work on heart disease, obesity, and prostate cancer was years ahead of its time.

OLDWAYS Sara and Dunn Gifford put the traditional diet back on the map as a solution for many of the worlds populations. I have followed their work for decades and have watched with excitement and enthusiasm as they designed each new food pyramid.

JIM AND SHERRI WEAR for introducing me to chia and changing my life. Jim and Sherri are two of the kindest, most honorable and generous people Ive ever met.

SARAH TOLAND is my long and trusted Mens Journal editor. Sarah was of enormous benefit in the original design of the project, its scope and vision. Sarah was invaluable in designing the premium foods section and laboriously sifting through myriad databases to come up with the best. DAN GREEN had been my trusted colleague and agent for nearly a dozen books. Dan has razor sharp instincts and was responsible for many of my bestselling books.

CHARLES GAINES I wrote my first book with Charles Gaines, Sports Selection. Charles taught me how to craft books. Not a chapter goes by that I dont think of Charles and what he taught me.

CHARLOTTE HARDWICK has a tremendous flair for designing incredibly healthy meals. A graduate of the Integrative Institute of Nutrition in New York City, Charlotte did a spectacular job creating the menus and recipes in this book. Theyre fresh, inspiring, and delicious.

TERRI SHINTANI Terris Hawaiian Diet set the standard for reintroducing traditional diets to native populations. His Hawaiian Diet proved that traditional cuisines could help erase the scourge of obesity and diabetes.

LIZZIE AND BARRY HINCKLEY for being both incredible friends and for first introducing me to chia.

KIMMY EVERETT for being a tremendous friend, pushing me to adopt the entire chia lifestyle and pushing life to the max.

Appendix

The following symptom survey will give a thorough picture of your health and any pain or discomfort you have, providing a great point of comparison for the improvements youll feel on the Aztec Diet.

SYMPTOMS QUESTIONNAIRE: The following questionnaire was developed for you to track improvements in your mood, sleep, energy, and physical symptoms on the Aztec Diet.

INSTRUCTIONS: Before you start the Aztec Diet, fill in the first column, marked Day 0. Every two weeks return to the table and enter how you feel.

SCORING: The scoring system is from zero to ten. Zero means the complete absence of that symptom. Ten indicates that the symptom is severe in its intensity. Mark your answer with a pencil in the columns below. If you have alarming symptoms such as shortness of breath with activity, tightness in the chest, or severe mood disturbances, review these with your doctor immediately. The most alarming symptoms are marked with an asterisk.

Hopefully you had some routine blood work done before you started the Aztec Diet. Compare your results with these tables of normal values to see what kind of progress you need to make; then have the labs repeated after youve made it to . You should see the numbers coming into line!

Cholesterol

These values should start to fall first in response to the Chia Challenge, in as little as five days. Large changes are seen after six weeks. These are the levels given by the American Heart Association.

HDL:

LDL: