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The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
Psychologists will tell you that gratitude is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of happiness. And why is that? Because to feel grateful is to experience life as a gift, as an experience of grace and joy.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
A Switch-Informed Dietary Plan to Lose Weight
**To Stimulate Fat Burning Diet**
•Low-carb or keto diet preferred, especially for the first month.
•Switch Diet or Mediterranean diet (with more stringent restriction of high-glycemic carbs, salty foods, and umami) may be used as an alternative.
•Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
•Reduce salt intake to 5–6 grams daily (though you may want to ingest more if you sweat a lot during exercise, and you can be more liberal with salt if you are on a low-carb diet).
•Intermittently fast one or two days a week as tolerated, using a 16:8-hour schedule (optional).
•Minimize or avoid alcohol.
Supplements
•Daily vitamin C supplement of 500 mg or less.
**To Rebuild Your Energy Factories**
Exercise
•One hour, three to four times a week, in Zone 2.
Diet and supplements (optional)
•Dark chocolate or epicatechin.
•Green tea.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Richard Johnson and David Perlmutter
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