The 2004 Multi-Diet:
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Various diet types -- such as low-fat, low-carbohydrate, high-protein, and others -- have been around in different forms for decades.
Each type makes valid and correct (but very different) points about weight-loss. But each of these diet types also remains limited and incomplete -- as those who try them quickly learn.
Such diets almost always become more and more difficult and less and less effective the longer you're on them. Eventually they stop working altogether -- with devastating effects on your self-esteem and motivation to try again.
The 2004 Multi-Diet presents an entirely new approach -- called the Threshold Theory -- to the factors that control bodyweight change.
This new approach completes the earlier techniques by combining all of their best features together with several new ideas to achieve safe, significant, and ongoing weight loss of almost any amount without the endless, grinding struggle to find the strength to stay on it "just one more day".
Using irreverent humor, occasional blunt speaking, and a uniquely entertaining literary device ("The Beast"), the anonymous author of The Multi-Diet outlines a technique that combines all of the best features of the earlier approaches together with additional science to eliminate the "blocking factor" that always activates itself after a few days on any diet and eventually forces the diet to a (usually) premature end.
The Multi-Diet may be the most complete and up-to-date scientific weight-loss manual available.
The author has clearly spent a great deal of time researching this subject and presents an impressive array of facts and scientific references demonstrating that this new approach both supports and is supported by nearly eight decades of mainstream research into obesity and weight change. He also demonstrates that the new theory explains and resolves a number of apparent paradoxes within that research.
The book is written in three parts.
The first is a humorous, popular, 100+ page presentation of basic concepts together with several "rules of thumb" that allow people to get started quickly.
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The second part, 200 more pages, is more dispassionate in style, but still irreverent and humorous, and gives in-depth explanations of the various scientific principles behind the approach. It also gives much more technique for using these principles and provides numerous charts and other aids to allow the reader to easily answer such questions as: "How much protein do I personally really need per day?" And "how much of what foods must I eat to make sure I actually get that amount?"
The third part, 100+ pages, is about practical techniques and modern methods. It contains meal plans, food lists, recipes, supplement recommendations, and no less than five different techniques for using all these things.
The Multi-Diet takes a very "up-beat" and optimistic approach to losing weight. It states unequivocally that overweight has nothing whatever to do with your allegedly "weak will", or "bad genes", or even with some mysterious "flaw in modern society".
Instead, the problem of overweight is considered a by-product of the success of modern societies in providing better nutrition for their peoples.
And the Multi-Diet demonstrates that modern societies already possess the tools and information that individuals can use to correct this "overweight" problem -- you just need to know how to use all of them togther at the same time. As the author says "A piecemeal approach doesn't work".
What has been lacking until now is the knowledge of how to apply these tools to this problem.
Although the publisher calls The Multi-Diet "the end of obesity in modern societies", this is obviously reaching too far -- at this point. What can be said is that, if true, the new threshold theory approach represents a major advance in our understanding of weight gain and the techniques for reversing it.
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