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I have big plans for the future.

I bet you do, too. And if youre like me, you want a future thats going to be a fit, active, engaged, and happy one.

And this is the blueprint for making that happen.

Eat This, Not That! for a Longer, Leaner, Healthier Life! is a unique book, one that gathers the decades-long nutrition knowledge of Eat This, Not That! for people 50+. Our editors have curated a version of our bestselling books (with more than 7 million books sold) to help you make good choices about what to eatat home or in restaurants. With this simple-to-use program, youll discover how easy it is to strip away fat and set yourself up for a fitter, leaner, healthier, and happier future.

In fact, Eat This, Not That! is the no-diet weight-loss solution that has helped millions of people lose 10, 20, 30 pounds or more. People like Del Phillips of San Diego, California, who at age 44 dropped 152 pounds in just 11 months. And David Pool of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who shed 78 pounds in 11 months at age 57.

And best of all, this plan doesnt require you to give up your favorite foods, or boycott your favorite restaurants, or trade in your favorite activities for hours of boring exercise. All you need to do is to follow a handful of simple (and easy!) rules, while swapping out common restaurant and grocery foods for versions that are better, healthierbut just as delicious! Consider this:

At Panera Bread, you can swap one soup for an almost identical versionand save a whopping 620 calories per serving!

Multigrain or oatmeal? Make the wrong choice at Bob Evans and youll down an extra 895 calories! (Find the right answer in !)

One simple swap at P.F. Changs can strip more than 7,000 milligrams of sodium out of your day. (Hint: Look out for the Hot & Sour Soup!)

This book is jammed with just those kinds of eye-opening nutritional breakthroughs, as well as groundbreaking research that will challenge much of what you thought you knew about weight loss.

And theres never been a better time for a program like this. As I cruise into my late 40s, Ive realized that theres something sweet about leaving young adulthood behind. When were in our teens and 20s, life is all about who were going to become. When were in our 30s and early 40s, its all about maximizing the person we are. But when you hit that midpointlifes sweet spotits no longer about striving for more. Life becomes, instead, about appreciating what we have and learning to enjoy it to its fullest. Thats why it makes sense to forget about diet plans that require you to sacrifice or cause you to feel deprived. Let the young strivers take the hard route; once youre older and wiser, you know that theres always a simpler answer.

Well, this is it.

To your health,

David Zinczenko,

Founder and CEO,

Eat This, Not That!

You deserve to live your best life.

You deserve a future thats as rich, happy, and healthy as it can be. You deserve a body that looks and feels as young and vibrant on the outside as you feel on the inside. You deserve to feel sharp, focused, and in charge, to look into the future and see endless possibilities, unlimited opportunities, and immense joy.

You deserve all that because youve worked hard all these years to achieve it.

And this book will help you claim it at last.

If you knew that there was someone or something out there that wanted to cause you harmthat wanted to take everything you had away from you, from your health to your financial well-being to your very lifeyoud take action, right? Youd never allow such a threat to loom over you, especially if you had the power to make it vanish.

Well, the truth is that you are being stalkedbut the enemy thats after you isnt lurking in the usual places, like a dark alley, or a haunted house, or the IRS office. The most dangerous foe youll face in the coming years is already inside you.

Its belly fat.

In particular, its visceral fat, the type of fat that gathers in and around your internal organs, particularly the liver and pancreas. Unlike the fat thats found elsewhere in your body, visceral fat is metabolically active and aggressive. And its not your friend. When you accumulate visceral fat, you begin showing signs of something scientists call metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a condition thats really just a constellation of heart disease risk factors: a larger waist, high triglycerides (the fat in your blood), high blood sugar, low HDL cholesterol, and high blood pressure. According to a Mayo Clinic study of 650,000 adults, greater waist circumference means greater risk of death at pretty much every turn.