Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16820 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
A 2 week programme with 60 soups that helps you lose up to 10lbs - the healthy way. Each soup is full of specific nutritional superfoods to help you look years younger and build your immunity too. Soup has always been an excellent way to bring your body back to health and lose weight. Linda Lazarides offers a 2 week superfood-filled soup programme that not only helps you lose as much as 10lbs but can also be used to target health problems in a revolutionary way. Quick and easy to make, soup is the ultimate convenience food - a delicious way to change your diet for the better. It allows you effortlessly to eat those recommended daily portions of vegetables, herbs and pulses in the most mouth-watering combinations. Linda Lazarides gives you all of the most up-to-date information on how to combat weight problems and other health and beauty problems by eating soups with ingredients such as onions, coriander, soy, tomatoes, radishes and lemon juice. As well as the weight loss related soup recipes, the book includes a strong section of ailment-specific soups containing those nutritional 'magic bullets' that can help you naturally overcome symptoms.

It will include soup recipes to help with: High cholesterol or blood pressure; Overweight; Gall-stones; Candida; Chronic tiredness; Arthritis; Syndrome X; Skin problems; Low thyroid function.

Customer Reviews

My husband likes some of the soups too
I have an all too healthy appetite which at over 50 means weight gain. I love sugar in all forms and have been hungry on other diets but not this one. I ate probably larger than recommended portions and over 14 days I lost 10lbs. What's more my husband was happy to eat some of the main meals too e.g. Malaysian Laksa and we still use the ones he likes. I have managed to keep most of this weight loss off for 5 months since doing the diet strictly and I don't exercise although I know I should. A few recipes are a little bland but they do work. I found the suggestions for breakfast particularly helpful and tasty.

Research shows soup can reduce food cravings
As a nutritionist who has suffered from sugar and chocolate addictions and really loves to eat, I am especially motivated to study the weight loss aspect of nutrition. I do find that most of the diets around at the moment don't really address food cravings. If your cravings aren't reduced then you will simply start bingeing as soon as you come off your diet. New research shows that eating soup does reduce cravings for other foods. Soup is a great convenience food. It can be thick or thin, smooth or chunky. Healthy ingredients and power foods can be combined effortlessly. Some power foods slow down carbohydrate absorption and help to prevent surges in the hormones which stimulate appetite. This book has 60 soup recipes from many different world regions. Many make satisfying one-pot meals. They are coded according to their suitability for GI diets and conventional low-carb and detox diets. There are also several new cabbage soup recipes. One or two of the book's recipes are medicinal rather than tasty, but the Sweet Potato and Peanut Butter Soup, Avocado Salsa Soup, Broad Bean Soup with Apple and Radish, Carrot Chicken and Sweetcorn Spicy Chowder, and Seafood Bisque Cooked French-Style are irresistible.

Not Another One...
I was expecting one of these so called diets to emerge at some point, and all I can say is DIETS DON'T WORK! Especially when it is dominated by liquids, because you lose WATER WEIGHT, and worse, you lose your lean muscle mass which greatly disturbs your metabolism. Of course you'll regain the weight after going off the diet!

To all those who want to lose weight permamently, just eat the right balance of foods using portion control, dont restrict yourself, and get plenty of excercise.