Susan M. Kleiner - The Powerfood Nutrition Plan

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This book was previously published as Power Food (Rodale, 2004).

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To Jeff

T his book has been a teameffort. To Lou Schuler, thank you for your visionary concept and help in getting the project off the ground. To Daniel Listwa, editor extraordinaire, and to Lois Hazel, thank you for being the champions of this project. Your support and attention to detail have been invaluable. Thank you to Karen Friedman-Kester for your creative menus and recipes, which helped turn the science into a tasty and practical diet. Many thanks to my agent, Al Zuckerman, for always giving me the right advice. Thank you to my numerous clients who contributed to this book by letting me tell your stories and by testing many versions of many diets over many years. To Jeff, Danielle, and Ilana, thank you for everything.

SUSAN M. KLEINER

The Powerfood Nutrition Plan is a guidebook to help you break out of your routine and become more powerful in all areas of your life. The book breaks the usual mold for nutrition books.

First of all, its aimed at mennot the usual nutrition books target audience. But men have just as many, if not more reasons to eat right than women. I should know: my career in nutrition has always focused on men in one way or another. When I did my doctoral research, it was on male body builders. My clients, including many pro athletes, were almost all men until 1994, when I moved my practice to Seattle. Even today, about 60 percent of the work I do is with men. I, as well as anyone, know how badly men need healthy, practical eating advice. In this book, I look to do something about that. Also, rather than creating one diet that uses 10 chapters to explain how you can fit it into your life, I have created 20 different meal plans in 11 chapters dedicated to each of the different goals that you might want to excel in at some point in your life. You choose what you want to work on in your life, and when.

Generalized diets for the masses can get across the big dos and donts regarding health promotion, disease prevention, and basic body-weight management. I call them the Nutrition 101s of the diet world. But once youve got the basics down and you want to achieve more, you need to move on to sophisticated principles that draw on the cutting edge of nutrition science. I tell my clients that what I offer is a customized program based on their personal needs and goals. No one gets the same plan, and every consult is a graduate-level nutrition course based on you. It digs deeper and gives you more detail and practical guidance than the typical one-stop diet. Use The Powerfood Nutrition Plan right, and you can reach the levels of excellence that you strive to achieve, whether in the boardroom, the locker room, or the bedroom.

Flip back to the Contents. You will see chapters on mood and brain power, weight loss, muscle building, , and so forth.

Every chapter has one or more menus that incorporate the critical points addressed in the text. These diets are designed not just to stand alone, but to help you move from diet to diet as your needs change. If you start out working on weight loss in without feeling overwhelmed with a completely different diet plan. Youll already be familiar with the basic food plan, so incorporating the new muscle-building elements should be easy.

It is the details that make the difference. Bill Belichik, head coach of the three-time winning Super Bowl champions, the New England Patriots, once told me that the difference between any athlete and a winner is attention to details. Thats what Ive incorporated into The Powerfood Nutrition Plan diet plans: tweaks and details that will lift your body/mind above the realm of average menchanges that will give you championship-caliber results. You will know exactly what to eat and when to eat it, no matter what your personal goals.

Of course, once youve attained your specific goals, youll want a meal plan that maintains your results and keeps you healthy for the rest of your life. Or perhaps your only goal is to have a healthier diet that really incorporates the latest information in nutrition. If so, turn to the Full-Power Meal Plan. It incorporates pretty much all of the health benefits in this book and delivers a 14-day nutrition plan designed to produce major results, fast. I firmly believe that it represents the best, most comprehensive diet for the vast majority of the men reading this book.

Ill keep this brief and end by saying that if youve ever taken food for granted, you wont after reading The Powerfood Nutrition Plan. The world of nutrition is complexjust as complex as the world of medicine, if not more so. The most celebrated experts in my field are learning new ways to use food to benefit mankind every day, and will continue to do so until they retire. By reading this book, youre going to gain a new appreciation for the power of food. Its my hope that youll take these lessons and put them to work to improve your entire life.

Good luck!

I m a dietitian by trade, not a writer or a preacher, so youll have to forgive me for getting right to the meat of the matter.

Eating right can change your life.

The right foods can help you feel like a million bucks. They can give you dramatically more energy, and help you to look better than you ever have. Assuming your present diet leaves something to be desiredand the fact that you picked up this book suggests that it mightimproving it can have a huge impact on your life. It will make a big difference.

All you need is the right knowledge. Thats where The Powerfood Nutrition Plan comes in. What you hold in your hands is both bible and manualan all-in-one guide to handling your dietary needs. It will help you to gain control over your eating and, in the process, make over your life.