Very Low Calorie Diet. Dr. Shatalova and Current Discoveries

Calorie Theories, Longevity, and Natural Health (look inside the book)

Table of Contents

Calorie Theories            1

Calorie counting: The Many Types of Calories        1  

The Calorie Games        4

Is this a correct answer?    5

Is there scientific evidence?        5

Study #2 Harvard School of Public Health.    7

What do we count when we think we count calories?    8

The "Astronauts' Diet"            11

2006, Dr Shatalova celebrates her 90^th anniversary    13

Super Marathon        15

The "Human Species' Nutrition. How About Physical Laws?    16

Alpine Hikers' Success Stories    19

Very Low Calorie Diets and Diseases    21

What is Energy?    23

Longevity and Optimal Health    25

Is This Only for a Chosen Few?    28

The Homo Naturalis    28

What Body Weight is Natural?    30

An Interview with Galina Shatalova    31

Dr. Shatalova’s Health System            37

The Rules    37

How Many Meals a Day?    38

Cleansing Procedures.    38

The Cooking Technique    40

The Meal Rules    40

RECIPES            41

Kelp Sauce    41

Early spring wild greens salad    42

Sesame Sauce    43

Soy bean pate    43

Green Sauce    44

POTATO RECIPES        45

Why potato?        45

New potatoes with wild spring greens    45

Potato Galushki    46

Potato Khachani    47

Potatoes and carrots    48

Potatoes and mushrooms    48

Pokhlebkas        49

Basic Pokhlebka    50

Russian Nettle Soup    52

Russian Turnip soup    53

Russian Onion soup    54

The cabbage soup diet        54

Full Schi    55

Appendix            57

Very Low Calorie Effect on Health and Life Span        57

Low Calorie versus Low Carb    59

Can Adults Benefit from Calorie Restriction?    60

Is VLCD stressful?    61

So, How Does it Work?    62

Fasting.        63

Fat Burning Basics Fasting and Ketones.    63

Ketone bodies    64

Women are different    64

Blood flow to fat tissue    65

Glucose and insulin    65

Hormones    65

Cold weather and heat production    66

Fat burning does occur at an increased rate during fasting.    66

The obese burn fat during fasts.    67

Lipolysis during fasting decreases as we age.    68

How I fast        69

If you committed a longer fast    71

RECOVERY    72

Calorie restriction update            73

Calorie restriction or overeating prevention?        73

The Satiety Index        77

Satiety Index Table.    78

The Body-mind            80           

Relaxation Response        80

How to do the relaxation response exercise:    82

Progressive Relaxation Exercise    82

Breathing Meditation    84

Footnotes for the references included in the text under numbers    87

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