L.A. Shape Diet:
The 14-Day Total Weight Loss Plan
by Dr. David Heber

Synopsis
Describes how to effectively lose weight and change body shape through a personal diet plan that is based on protein and seven servings of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Dr. David Heber's groundbreaking book What Color Is Your Diet? introduced us to the Color Code, building a healthy diet based on colorful fruits and vegetables.

Now, his life-changing book The L.A. Shape Diet combines the sound nutritional basis of the Color Code with his newest research from the UCLA Center for Nutrition, which shows you how to analyze your body shape, personal protein needs, and metabolism not only to lose weight -- but also to change your body shape.

Dr. Heber maintains that everyone is born with a particular shape. This shape makes a huge difference in how you should approach weight loss. He teaches the difference between the shape you can change and the shape you cannot, and how to do this with the right amount of dietary protein (and most Americans, women especially, eat too little protein). Then Dr. Heber helps you build your own ideal diet, starting with protein, then 7 colorful servings of fruits and vegetables (providing 25 grams of filling fiber), and finally whole grains.

In a world of dietary fads and "one size fits all" pseudo-miracle diets, The L.A. Shape Diet is the most effective, easy-to-follow, scientifically sound dietary plan you'll find.

This is a programme which validates solid scientific research and not just another fad diet. It is totally refreshing to read a book written by someone seeking to find a lasting solution to a global crisis, rather than simply 'cash in' with yet another unproved system. Dr. Heber is an expert in both medicine and science, and with access to over 20 years of painstaking research, he teaches us how we can change not only our shape, but also our health and our lives just by including the right nutrition and protein in our diets - with no deprivation or hunger!

This is a powerful weight loss programme which can change the health of the world if enough people get access to the information. Obesity is now recognised as a worldwide epidemic and we all need to take responsibility for our own health and do something right now (rather than rely on the health service to pick up the pieces). This is the book to do it with. Recommended.

David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN

After graduating from UCLA Magna Cum Laude in Chemistry in 1969 and from Harvard Medical School in 1973, Dr. Heber completed his internship at Beth Israel Hospital and his residency and fellowship training at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California. He completed his Ph.D. in Physiology at UCLA in 1978. Dr. Heber has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine since 1978 and is the founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine as well as the founding Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition at UCLA. Dr. Heber is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine and in Clinical Nutrition by the American Board of Nutrition. He also directs the NIH Nutrition and Obesity Training Grants at UCLA. Dr. Heber is a Director of the American Board of Nutrition and past chair of the Education Committee of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition. He has written over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 25 book chapters, and two professional texts: Dietary Fat, Lipids, Hormones and Tumorigenesis and Nutritional Oncology, a 50-chapter text published by Academic Press in 1999.

Dr. Heber's primary areas of interest are in nutrition, botanical dietary supplements and the role of phytochemicals and botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of common forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease. He has written reviews and articles on dietary supplements in cancer and cardiovascular disease. In particular, he has published research on the use of botanical supplements in lowering cholesterol for heart disease prevention through the recently funded CDSRB and has collaborated on studies of the botanical dietary supplement PC-SPES in prostate cancer. Dr. Heber is included in the 2000 listing of "The Best Doctors in America," based on a survey of over 35,000 doctors throughout the nation, and is listed in Who's Who in America for 2001. He has written three books for the public: Natural Remedies for a Healthy Heart (Avery Publishing Group 1998), The Resolution Diet (Avery Publishing Group 1999), and What Color is Your Diet? (Harper Collins/Regan Books 2001).