Zinczenko - Zero Belly Cookbook: 150 Delicious Recipes to Flatten Your Belly, Turn Off Your Fat Genes, and Help Keep You Lean for Life!

This book proposes a program of diet and exercise recommendations for the reader to follow. However, you should consult a qualified medical professional (and, if you are pregnant, your ob/gyn) before starting this or any other fitness program. Please seek your doctors advice before making any decisions that affect your health or extreme changes in your diet, particularly if you suffer from any medical condition or have any symptom that may require treatment. As with any diet or exercise program, if at any time you experience any discomfort, stop immediately and consult your physician.

Copyright 2015 by David Zinczenko

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Zinczenko, David.

Zero belly cookbook : 150+ delicious recipes to flatten your belly, turn off your fat genes, and help keep you lean for life! / David Zinczenko.

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1. Reducing dietsRecipes. 2. Weight loss. 3. AbdomenMuscles. I. Title.

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E very once in a while, you read something that changes your life.

For some, its a novelThe Great Gatsby perhaps, or The Corrections. For others, its a motivational phrase, a memorable quote from Gandhi, or Lincoln, or Dr. King. But me, Im a numbers guy.

And the numbers that rocked my world came from a study at Cambridge University a few years back. Theyre the numbers five and forty-seven.

As in, those of us who cook at home at least five times a week are 47 percent more likely to still be alive ten years from now.

As a guy who ate almost every meal at a restaurant, that study shook me to the core. As a man who lost his own father to obesity at a young age, and who struggled with his own weight for several years, it made sense. For most of our lives, you and I and almost everyone else in America have been giving control of our health, our weight, and our future to someone who doesnt even know who we areand, frankly, doesnt care.

And we dont know who he is, either. But he probably works in a kitchenin the back of a Chipotle, or a corner diner, or a McDonalds, or a nice Italian neighborhood restaurant. His job is to make our food as rich and tasty as he can, as cheaply as he can, with bargain-basement oils and unhealthy fats and plenty of added sugar, so well crave more, order more, and come back for more. How do all these fats and sugars and calories affect our health? Thats not his problem.

But its the problem you and I are going to solve together. Zero Belly Cookbook will show you how to seize control from the line cooks and food-lab technicians who rule your life, and put the power of food firmly in your grasp. The science is revolutionary. The results are irrefutable.

And the food? The food is just damn tasty.

Zero Belly Cookbook is going to change everything about how you eat, feel, and live. It will save you time, it will save you money, it will save you poundsand in the end, it just might save your life.

I can say that, because I believe its saved mine.

This book is the culmination of a lifetime spent hunting for an answeran answer for one of the most vexing problems known to man. But its much more than that. Its a celebration: a celebration of great food and the power it has to heal our bodies, soothe our souls, and give us back control of our lives. And its a celebration of victory over the greatest health challenge of our times.

Steeped in decades of research, ZERO BELLY is unlike any other weight-loss plan or recipe collection youve ever read. If you want to count calories, this book wont tell you how. If you want to deprive yourself of carbs or fats or any delicious region of the food map, go somewhere else. If you believe eating bland, boring food is the key to weight loss, then just close this book now and put it back on the shelf.

The blueberry pancakes are great! Pancakes that are good for you and taste great? You cant beat that!

MATT BRUNNER, 44, lost 35 pounds and 6 inches from his waist

But if you want to be on the front lines of a new revolution in weight loss, one that unlocks the power of food to rev up your metabolism, heal your digestive system, dramatically reduce your health risks, and literally turn off the genes that cause belly fat, then ZERO BELLY is the plan for you. The 150+ recipes in this book target belly fat directly, literally teaching your body how to lose weight quickly, and keep it off permanently, using the most delicious foods on the planet. It will do for you what it has done for thousands of fans who have joined the movementZero Belly Diet is a New York Times bestseller, international blockbuster, and social media phenomenon for a reason: It works for everyone.

And it will work for you.

Belly fator visceral fat, as the scientists call itis the common link in almost every major health issue we face today. And for years, it had me in its grasp. Growing up an overweight kid, I watched as it slowly killed my father, its insidious and unrelenting grip unyielding to every effort he made to diet or exercise away the pounds. Its perfect storm of heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure finally took my father from me when he was just fifty-two. Looking in the mirror at my own round tummy, I knew one thing for certain: It was coming for me.

My life depended on finding an answer. Yours does, too. And ZERO BELLY gives us what weve been searching for all these years, finally: the answer.

It was the answer for June Caron, fifty-seven, who signed up to try the program and lost 12 pounds in just two weeks, shrinking from a size 12 to a size 5 in just one year. My energy levels are increased, my routine medical tests for cholesterol, sugar levels, blood pressure all show great numbers, my stress levels are down, my confidence is up, my happiness is UP! I am finally off the diet roller coaster! Hail to the Chef!

It was the answer for Jason Johnson, age forty, who lost 18 pounds and 3 inches off his waist in just five weeks. I feel outstanding both mentally and physically. I recall exactly when this energy and mood shift hit meit was on day three. I suddenly felt happy, almost euphoric, and my body told me I should just get up and start walking. I know it sounds corny, but its true.

And it was the answer for Jean Connors, a retired elementary teacher who, at age seventy, happened to see me talking about my research on