The Anti-Estrogenic Diet: How Estrogenic Foods and Chemicals Are Making You Fat and Sick

by Ori Hofmekler

Book Overview

- Lower your risk of metabolic disorders, disease, and chronic weight gain - Protect yourself against the estrogenic substances in the environment, products, water, and food - Learn how certain foods... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155643684X
• ISBN13: 9781556436840
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Information

Good information about what causes estrogen imbalance and recommendations to reverse it. If you want to know more about what causes estrogen imbalances in both female and male bodies and what to do about it then this is a good book to read. I highly recommend it for anyone you has some knowledge in the area and is truly interested in learning how to overcome this hormonal imbalance. It is somewhat dry in nature but chocked full of valuable information if you are serious about your health.

The Anti Estrogenic Diet is AMAZING!

The ANTI ESTROGENIC DIET is AMAZING! It is DEFINITELY working for me! In 2 weeks time, I've lost 26 pounds! I've lost 3 inches from my bust. I've lost 8 inches from my waist. I've lost 3 inches from my hips. I've lost 3.5 inches from my upper thighs. I've lost 3 inches from my upper calf. I've lost 1.75 inches from my upper arm. Not only am I losing pounds and inches, I'm feeling so much better! As an EXTRA BONUS, this past week was my monthly menstrual cycle. For years, I have had SEVERE CRAMPS during this time of the month. My mom had always had very hard cramps and the same sort of problems I was having, so I thought it was probably hereditary and genetic and that I would just have to live with it... BUT, this month I had absolutely no cramps at all...It was AMAZING! I feel better than I've felt in years! I still have a LONG way to go... but, I'm loving the food I'm eating. I'm not hungry. I don't have cravings for sweet things. I feel full and satisfied, and I really believe that I can live with this modified way of eating for the rest of my life! I know that eventually I'll have to start exercising.... (something I don't like to do).... but, for right now, I'm enjoying losing weight and inches without having to do the exercises! The Anti Estrogenic Diet book gives you a very basic, very simple, overview of the diet and helps you to understand WHY it is working. There is a small recipe section that gives a few ideas of some different dishes you can have for meals. There is a Question/Answer section that addresses some of the more common questions. There is also a chapter on how to make this diet work for you if you are a Type II Diabetic. There is an interesting chapter about soy products and why they might not be as good for us, as what we have been hearing. There is information to help you know how to gradually add other foods back into your diet and maintain your weight loss after you have reached your goal. There is good information on how to nourish your muscles after exercise and how to build muscle mass... There is a lot of good information in the book. Personally, I wish the book would have had a few more recipes and a few more meal plans.... but, they have an online forum where you can go and get any of your questions answered. It's great place where you can find friends who are also trying to lose weight... and where you can encourage each other and share ideas, and recipes, and success stories. THE ANTI ESTROGENIC DIET IS GREAT! IT'S WORKING FOR ME! I GIVE IT 5 STARS without any hesitation at all!

the one that I've been looking for

This book is hands down the best book that I've come across when it comes to proper nutrition. It explains in detail how the food and diet industry has negatively contributed to the sick society that we live in. Written in a way that anyone can understand, it explains how certain foods and products that are commonly used have contributed to the obesity problem that is rife in the developing world. By following the diet it allows you to cleanse your body eliminating the toxins that have built up in your body. Promoting a heavily organic diet, it is conducive to weight loss and assists both men and women who have estrogen related health conditions. A big thank you to Ori and Rick for getting out this much needed resource - the book is also supported by a website and forum for support and questions. A perfect package if you ask me!

Really has worked for us

I honestly believe that KR Simmons' review was incorrect and largely could be misleading to others. It made me think he didn't even really read it. Ori did an excellent job explaining, with unparalleled scientific footnoting for a diet book, the main premise which is how damaging excessive estrogen can be for the body. One you understand that, then the author explains which foods have anti-estrogenic abilities to counter-act the excess estrogen problem, and then which foods to avoid which promote estrogen. So it is not some sort of vegan diet from of old. It is based on modern research. And estrogen comes from more than food; we largely are bombarded by it from the chemicals persistent in the environment. Now, I have been on this diet for 2 months, and my wife also. I have not only lost weight (15 pounds), and have more "sexy" abs (like my wife says) from also doing Ori's CFT training (see his web site for info) along with the AED, but MOST importantly, I have discovered through the food re-introduction phases -(which occurs after the first two weeks, and could last as long as you want to keep trying to re-introduce all sorts of foods you want to eat)- I have discovered which foods cause my severe allergies (I am on immunotherapy - allergy shots), and which foods cause headaches, etc. I tried my doctor's food elimination diet, which didn't tell me anything, because my body was never really detoxified from excess estrogen. I am a firm believer, and I have never said that of any other diet or eating plan before. This provides a solution to what nearly every other diet program fails to address - why we rebound from dieting. Once your body is "truly" detoxified, you won't want to eat junk any more because junk food makes you sick - you immediately get headaches and allergies and bloating (sometimes diarrhea or constipation). I think that since most of us eat poor food so often we no longer even detect when it makes you sick. But we (my wife and I) sure have now. And, we have been eating organic for 2 years prior to this and that even wasn't the "solution" like this is. And finally (I know I have written a lot so I hope this is helpful), but there is a great online community/forum for help and support. So even if someone doesn't know how to read they can get help from the forum, from many people who are successful, and even from the author/co-author themselves. I recommend you buy it and try it with serious commitment for a month or two and see for yourself, rather than taking a disgruntled person's opinion.

Peeling back the onion...

Great book. We've been convinced that so many things make us beautiful and are good for us when in fact they are causing an estrogen epidemic! Cosmetics, plastics, soy, chemicals... yikes. Very revealing book with very real results.