The Shangri-La Diet is based on a simple and crazy premise: adding 2 tbsp of olive oil a day to your diet will speed up your metabolism, make you feel a lot less hungry, and regulate your body weight (the author lost 35lbs in 3 months!?). I remember first reading about this quirky professor's idea in Freakonomics(silly name, great book) and how over like 20 years he methodically/scientifically tested many different diet regimes on himself.
If this works anything like he claims (clinical trials are scheduled!), then I really should start buying stock in the olive oil commodities market.
Goodbye Atkins, hello extra virgin extra light olive oil.
more about the the Shangri-La Diet from Amazon's book description(just released, it's currently a top-5 best-seller)..
Psychologist and professor Seth Roberts has spent years analyzing why most diets don't work. A maverick with a curious mind, and a yen for self-experimentation, he started by asking a simple question most experts haven't tackled: What makes us feel hungry in the first place?
After scouring the scientific literature and tirelessly testing various theories and practices, Roberts hit upon a simple, effective strategy for controlling the body's internal "set point"- that is, the thermostat that controls weight gain or loss. Roberts lost thirty-five pounds in only three months, and he has kept it off for five years. Since then, others have replicated these results, andThe solution was counterintuitive: By taking two daily servings of either extra-light olive oil or plain sugar water, he took control of his appetite, with astonishing results. Formal clinical trials will soon be under way.
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The diet requires extra LIGHT olive oil, not extra virgin. (You can also use canola oil, and I'm seeing on the author's forum that grapeseed oil seems to work too.) It has to be flavorless, which EVOO is not.
no wonder when I tried extra virgin I almost gagged. yuck!
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