Zinczenko David - SUPER METABOLISM DIET: the four-week plan to torch fat, ignite your fuel furnace, and stay lean ... for life!

W HAT IF I TOLD you that you have a real life super-power deep inside your body, lying dormant, just waiting to be unleashed? And that once youve activated it, youll find yourself healthier, happier, smarter, leaner, and more confident than ever before?

Well, its true. This superpower exists. Discover it, and youll have a flatter stomach, a toned body, and a longer lifeall without sacrificing a thing.

This isnt a dream. Its science. Deep inside your cells theres a biochemical processa fire, so to speakthat powers your very existence. Without it, your brain wouldnt function, your heart wouldnt beat, your muscles wouldnt twitch. Its magicthis mysterious, energy-churning life forceactually means the difference between having the lean, strong body of your dreams, and trudging woefully through your days saddled with the burden of unwanted weight. Your superpower also means the difference between feeling okay, feeling energetic, and feeling flat-out amazing. But best of all? Once youve activated your superpower, it will do all of the hard work for you.

Imagine a world in which you didnt have to torture yourself at the gym for hours on end. Imagine a world in which you didnt have to slash tons of calories from your diet. Imagine a world where you dont feel guilty every time you indulge in your favorite tasty foodsor desperately follow some newfangled dieting fad. Imagine a world in which you only have toactivate your superpower.

I know, I sound like the movie trailer voiceover guyyou know, Imagine a world where civilizations fall, and heroes must rise But this introduction is the trailer for a new you.

And guess what?

In this story, youre the hero.

Because you have this power inside you right now. And The Super Metabolism Diet will help you find it.

Still, Im guessing you dont feel much like a hero yet. Theres a really good chance that your metabolism isnt exactly firing at full speed. Right now, 155 million Americans are overweight.

If youre one of them, or if youre feeling stressed out and depressed, or sapped of energy at all times, Im here to turn that barely flickering light into a burning star. And, with the science-backed contents of The Super Metabolism Diet as your guide, youll finally achieve your bodys most powerful fat-burning potential. Best of all, youll be bulletproofing your body against the harsh forces of ageand worse. According to David Mangelsdorf, PhD, a noted metabolism expert at the University of Texas Southwestern, everything youre doing to harm your metabolism does more than just affect your waist size.

Each one of the things that youre doing is a risk factor for more than just burning energy and getting fat, he says. Youre at risk of disease.

Now, the top scientistsmany of whom Ive spoken to for this bookhavent discovered a magical switch for your metabolism just yet, but they have indeed begun uncovering more and more about how it works and what it means. And I can tell you this: Gaining control of your body is far easierand far more attainablethan you ever imagined. Yes, you can be forty years old and have the metabolism of someone fifteen years younger overnight (okay, two weeks!). You just need to understand the key drivers and elemental makeup of your inner superpower.

Your metabolism is a dizzyingly complex process deep inside your cells that takes the food you eat and either stores it as fat, muscle, and other bodily matter, or burns it off as energy. And everything in my plan is designed to get your body doing a lot more burning and a lot less storing.

Your superpower needs the right fuel to thriveand needs to be fed properly. Stress and lack of proper sleep are both major metabolism killers. So is that Netflix binge. And when your hormonesyour bodys inner organ-to-organ radio networkfail to communicate properly, your metabolism takes a severe beating, as well. Youll learn about all of these wretched metabolic supervillains in The Super Metabolism Diet, as well as all of the easy ways you can combat themand defeat themhead-on.

But the very foundation of your metabolism is, of course, your diet. If you eat the right foodsand choose to embrace the Super Metabolism Movement Planyoull find yourself shedding extra pounds, feeling happier, and bursting with life.

The wrong foods?

Well, lets just say theyre your very own Kryptonite.

Believe me, I know.

Like so many American males raised in the 1970s and 80s, by the time I reached young adulthood in the late 80s I knew a few irrefutable truths. Among them: Michael Jordan was a god, Brooke Shields was a goddess, and fat, of course, was the devil. After all, this was the era in which the Food Guide Pyramid was slapped on elementary school walls in between pictures of George Washington and Harriet Tubman, and it instructed kids to load up on upward of eleven servings of bread and other grains every single day as the very foundation of a healthy diet. High-fat foodsfish, meats, and dairywere near the top of the pyramid as major no-nos, right beneath cake and Coca-Cola. Its no wonder Americans at the time were watching their waistlines balloon at an extraordinary rate. By 1990, more than one in 10 American adults was obese.

Dont think for a minute that Im making light of this. I was among them. In my younger years in Pennsylvania, I was well acquainted with terms like husky, full-bodied, and big-boned. Thirty years later, Ill say it in bright, clear language: I was chunky. And I knew as well as anyone what it was like to weigh in on the heavier side of your peer group. When it came to eating, I made every single mistake you could possibly make. My best friends? Yes, there were Bob, Scott, and Dean. But there were also Little Debbie, Baby Ruth, and both Mike and Ike. By the time I was fourteen years old, I had packed more than two hundred pounds on an otherwise slender, five-foot-ten frame.

Like any impressionable kid, I took after my father, who was more than one hundred pounds overweight for much of his adult life and suffered through all of the ailments that plague men who carry the harsh burden of such weight. First there was the hypertension, then the diabetes. Eventually, there was the heart attack. Often getting out of chairs and climbing the stairs proved to be difficult tasks. Unfortunately, he ignored many of the telltale signs about his health, and his life was cut short too soon after a stroke at the age of fifty-two.