Universal Diet for Literate Adults Found

    /24-7PressRelease/ - Tucson, AZ, August 04, 2008 - Since the diet uses simple math, The Pen and Paper Diet has been found to be universal in nature. The basic idea of the book is that a person requires a certain amount of calories to maintain a specific weight. Research from the National Academy of Sciences was republished in the book and helps people easily find their calorie requirement which is dependent on their height, sex, age, weight and activity level. Most people that are overweight can immediately begin consuming their required amount of daily calories for their ideal weight and will begin observing weight loss within 2 weeks. A person just needs to track calorie consumption on paper while they continue to eat the types of food they enjoy. It takes about 3 minutes a day and uses the simple idea of a calorie budget. Doctors recommend losing at most 8 lbs a month and this diet helps people stay within this guideline. Also, an appendix in the book lists calorie info for the majority of the world's foods and some beverages which was obtained from the USDA's free online nutritional database at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/.

People with food prohibitions, religious or secular, can use this diet to manage their weight while they continue to observe their food restrictions. People of the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu faith as well as vegetarians can continue to consume their respective kosher, halal, vedic and non meat items. When people are required to fast, they can redistribute their forgone calories to other days within the week or month in order to maintain their weight as a monthly average. For example, a person may require 2,200 calories a day. If he or she fasted for one day (water consumption only), then they could add approx 370 calories to the other 6 days of the week. Note: Calorie info is provided for non-kosher, haram, non-vedic and meat items in the generic international Metric Edition.

Professionals that are required to maintain a certain weight or weight range can use the diet for precise weight management. The book only takes about 30 minutes to read and one can quickly and thoroughly understand basic weight management skills so professionals can focus on performing their primary job. Military service members, athletes, actors and others can employ weight management skills with The Pen and Paper Diet without having to take any extra time out of their already busy schedules.

People dieting, engaged in an exercise program or both can use this diet to supplement the program they are already on. Whether a person is focused on building more muscle mass in order to burn more calories, consuming a high protein or high complex carbohydrate diet, consuming a balanced diet of protein, fat and carbohydrates, one can use this diet to determine their required daily calorie intake and continue to stay in the guidelines he or she has established. Also, if people enjoy the support network of some weight management programs, he or she can continue to participate in the program while using The Pen and Paper Diet.

People with eating disorders, on both sides of the spectrum, could be referred to this diet by their Health Professional. Those with morbid obesity can use the idea of a calorie budget to slowly reduce one's calorie intake and learn to gain control of his or her eating habits. For example, if a person is consuming 6,000+ calories a day, he or she could be advised to consume 1,000 less a day for several months until they were comfortable with that amount. The individual's calorie consumption could then be reduced again. Weight loss should be expected to be gradual for those that are obese especially since it took years to put on the weight. Since those at the other end of eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia, have been starving themselves or purging to maintain a certain weight, Clinical Psychologists could suggest to their clients to use The Pen and Paper Diet to maintain their desired weight safely while they focus on other issues with psychotherapy. Anecdotally, people that have begun writing down their calorie consumption have begun to reduce or eliminate their obsession with calorie consumption since they do not have to constantly recall what they consumed throughout the day in order to self monitor.

People with various psychological backgrounds can use the diet since it only takes about 3 min a day. If you have little motivation to attempt weight loss or have never been so determined in your life to manage your weight, the ideas in The Pen and Paper Diet can give you the basic skills you need to control your weight indefinitely as long as you track calorie consumption.

People from all economic backgrounds can use the diet to manage their weight since a person isn't required to purchase additional materials or buy certain meals. The book cost about $15, is intended for lifelong reference and is available with most online book retailers. Whether you have a small budget and are very limited on the types of food you can eat or you are wealthy and can afford to eat higher priced foods regularly, The Pen and Paper Diet will allow you to manage your weight while consuming the types of food you choose or are required to eat.

People with all activity levels can use the diet since it is based on tracking calorie consumption. Those with a sedentary activity level (most in wheelchairs and those required to work at a computer 10+ hours a day) as well as those striving to be Olympians can use The Pen and Paper Diet since a person can choose their desired weight and activity level in order to determine their daily calorie requirement or calorie budget.

Once people learn the basic skill of losing weight and then maintain their ideal weight by simply having a calorie budget, a person can then focus on eating more healthy and exercising more.

Please visit www.ThePenAndPaperDiet.com for more information. En espanol, www.DietaPlumaPapel.com. For UK residents, visit www.ThePenAndPaperDiet.co.uk. For the generic international website, visit www.ThePenAndPaperDiet.net.

About Dow Creative Enterprises, LLC

Michael Dow is the author of The Pen and Paper Diet and is the manager of Dow Creative Enterprises, LLC, a book and website publishing company. To contact Dow Creative Enterprises, email [email protected].

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