There are Mediterranean Diet cookbooks, and there are air fryer cookbooks. And then there are (a surprisingly large intersection of!) Mediterranean Diet air fryer cookbooks. We wanted to feature one of them in today’s newsletter… And as part of the selection process, looked through quite a stack of them, and honestly, were quite disappointed with many. This one, however, was one of the ones that stood out for its quality of both content and clarity, and after a more thorough reading, we now present it to you:

Naomi Lane is a professional dietician, chef, recipe developer, and food writer… And it shows, on all counts.

She covers what the Mediterranean diet is, and she covers far more than this reviewer knew it was even possible to know about the use of an air fryer. That alone would make the book a worthy purchase already.

The bulk of the book is the promised 200 recipes. They cover assorted dietary requirements (gluten-free, dairy-free, etc) while keeping to the Mediterranean Diet.

The recipes are super clear, just what you need to know, no reading through a nostalgic storytime first to find things. Also no pictures, which will be a plus for some readers and a minus for others. The recipes also come complete with nutritional information for each meal (including sodium), so you don’t have to do your own calculations!

Bottom line: this is the Mediterranean Diet air fryer cook book. Get it, thank us later!

Get your copy of “Mediterranean Air Fryer Cookbook” on Amazon today!

Sugar isn’t often thought of as an addiction in the same category as alcohol or nicotine, but it’s actually very similar in some ways…

A bold claim, but: in each case, it has to do with dopamine responses to something that has:

• an adverse effect on our health,
• a quickly developed tolerance to same,
• and unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when quitting.

However, not all sugar addictions are created equal, and Dr. Teitelbaum lays four different types of sugar addiction out for us:

1. Most related to “I need to perform and I need to perform now”
2. Most related to “I just need something to get me through one more stressful day, again, just like every day before it”
3. Most related to “ate too much sugar because of the above, and now a gut overgrowth of C. albicans is at the wheel”
4. Most related to “ate too much sugar because of the above, and now insulin resistance is a problem that perpetuates itself too”

Of course, these may overlap, and indeed, they tend to stack cumulatively as time goes by.

However, Dr. Teitelbaum notes that as readers we may recognize ourselves as being at a particular point in the above, and there are different advices for each of them.

You thought it was just going to be about going cold turkey? Nope!

Instead, a multi-vector approach is recommended, including adjustments to sleep, nutrition, immune health, hormonal health, and more.

In short: if you’ve been trying to to kick the “White Death” habit as Gloria Swanson called it (sugar, that is, not the WW2 Finnish sniper of the same name—we can’t help you with that one), then this book is really much more helpful than others that take the “well, just don’t eat it, then” approach!

Pick up your copy of Beat Sugar Addiction Now from Amazon, and start your journey!

We’ve talked before about Dr. Greger’s famous “How Not To Die” book, and we love it and recommend it… But… It is, primarily, a large, dry textbook. Full of incredibly good science and information about what is statistically most likely to kill us and how to avoid that… but it’s not the most accessible.

“How Not To Diet“, on the other hand, is a diet book, is very readable, and assumes the reader would simply like to know how to healthily lose weight.

By focussing on this one problem, rather than the many (admittedly important) mortality risks, the reading is a lot easier and lighter. And, because it’s still Dr. Greger advocating for the same diet, you’ll still get to reduce all those all-cause mortality risks. You won’t be reading about them in this book; it will now just be a happy side effect.

While in “How Not To Die”, Dr. Greger looked at what was killing people and then tackled those problems, here he’s taken the same approach to just one problem… Obesity.

So, he looks at what is causing people to be overweight, and methodically tackles those problems.

We’ll not list them all here—there are many, and this is a book review, not a book summary. But suffice it to say, the work is comprehensive.

Bottom line: this book methodically and clinically (lots of science!) looks at what makes us overweight… And tackles those problems one by one, giving us a diet optimized for good health and weight loss. If you’d like to shed a few pounds in a healthy, sustainable way (that just happens to significantly reduce mortality risk from other causes too) then this is a great book for you!

Click here to check out “How Not To Diet” on Amazon and get healthy for life!