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Excerpt from USA Today By Craig Wilson - January 10, 2007
What a great year it's going to be. We're all going to sleep more, lose weight, get rich and luxuriate in the messes we make. Oh, and we're not going to clean house, either.
How do we know? A number of new self-help books tell us so, arriving just in time to reshape our New Year's resolutions. We Americans love nothing more than "improving" ourselves without exerting much energy. Life is good.
"That's the great thing about the self-help category. It's a huge umbrella," says Scott Manning, founder of the Books for a Better Life awards, which honor the best self-help books published each year. "It embraces people who need a quick fix in two steps, as well as those who prefer 12."
Similarly themed books have been around as long as The One Minute Manager , the 1982 best seller that offered up simple solutions to life's woes. But some people in the industry say the current crop of how-to books goes even easier on readers.
A few of the offerings, all new this month, to make the lazy you a better and happier you in the new year:
Sleep Away the Pounds (Warner, $21.99). "People just need to choose to sleep," says author Cherie Calbom, whose book follows research findings that too few hours of sleep can cause hormonal changes that lead to weight gain.
"People believe that if they stay up, they'll be burning up a lot of calories, which isn't true."
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FOX NEWS LIVE
Sleep Away the Pounds by E.D. Hill
January 5, 2007 - Nutritionist and author, Cherie Calbom, was on today telling us how getting good night's sleep can help us loose weight. You can find a link to her book, "Sleep Away the Pounds," on my website www.hillfriends.com .
Here are some Cherie's tips to optimize the weight loss benefits of a good night's sleep:
- Quiet the mind: Most of us are high speed. Slow down an hour before bedtime.
- Keep slices of turkey in your fridge at all times (not alcohol or sleep meds!)
- Keep a calcium tablet by your bed at all times (magnesium, too). When your body is deficient in these, you sleep less.
- Wiggle your toes 12 times before going to sleep. It's a signal to the brain.
- A low-carb diet helps with sleep, and of course, weight loss.
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New York Post – Entertainment
WEIGHT UNTIL DARK
LOSING POUNDS AS YOU SLEEP AND OTHER NEW DIET FADS
By DANICA LO
January 3, 2007 -- HERE'S a weight-loss plan for the new year: Try lifting a pile of new diet books. January's resolution mania spawns dozens of new weight-loss manuals - and this year is no exception. While there are a fair share of sage, down-to-earth eat-less-and-exercise guides, this year's most interesting launches are as gimmicky-sounding as ever. (Remember "The 3-Hour Diet" and the revamped Cabbage Soup Diet of bygone years?)
We took a gander at five books that promise to revolutionize the weight-loss industry - but not all of them, experts say, can live up to their promises.
"SLEEP AWAY THE POUNDS"
$21.99, Warner Wellness
Authors: Cherie Calbom, a nutritionist who previously authored "The Ultimate Smoothie Book," as well as co-authoring a cookbook with George Foreman; John Calbom, a behavioral medicine specialist and psychotherapist.
Promise: "You snooze, you lose!" Resting up and eating to plan should result in a loss of two to three pounds each week.
Premise: By getting more restful sleep, exercising and eating according to the Calboms' 21-day diet plan, your body will produce more leptin (the appetite-suppressing hormone) and less gherlin (the appetite-stimulating hormone).
Sample menu:
Breakfast: Green or herbal tea with lemon, 6-8 oz. vegetable juice, scrambled eggs, 1 slice turkey bacon, 2 slices fresh tomato sprinkled with fresh or dried herbs and sea salt
Mid-morning snack: Green or herbal tea with lemon, 6 raw or toasted almonds
Lunch: Baked fish with steamed vegetables and a quarter-cup of wild rice
Mid-afternoon snack: Sparking mineral water with lemon, 1 stalk celery stuffed with goat cheese, cut into 6 pieces
Dinner: Chicken Caesar salad and cup of soup
Nutritionist says: "There's something to be said about highlighting the chemical reaction in your body when you're sleep-deprived, which, in turn, affects your hunger and which macronutrients your body craves," says Marissa Muecke, registered dietician at the Sports Club/LA on the Upper East Side. "The problem with this diet is that everyone is different - not everyone likes nuts (some people are even allergic) and there are a lot of nuts on the plan. The same can be said for vegetarians regarding the amount of meat you eat in the diet. What I do like about the menu plan is that it regulates carb-intake and promotes eating a good amount of protein."
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The New York Sun - National
A Diet Idea for the New Year: To Lose Weight, Sleep More
By SAMANTHA O'BRIEN
Special to the Sun
December 28, 2006
Those tired of pilates and kickboxing may take comfort in a new weight-loss regimen that suggests a welcome alternative: Climb into bed.
A report last month in the International Journal of Obesity found that sleep deprivation is a large contributor to expanding waistlines, and that stocking up on rest could help men and women trying to shed excess pounds. With this treatment, exhausted New Yorkers should have no problem diving into their resolution-inspired diets after a late night on New Year's Eve.
The link between slumber and slimming down is the idea behind Dr. Jonathan Waitman's use of "sleep hygiene" to treat his patients at the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell campus on the Upper East Side. His regimen targets where and how a person goes to sleep. For helpless night owls, Dr. Waitman recommends moving the television out of the bedroom, decreasing intake of alcohol and caffeine, and turning off the computer at a reasonable hour.
In the city that never sleeps, adjusting these behaviors could be quite a problem. "New York encourages people to stay up later with so many things running around the clock," a nutritionist, Cherie Calbom, said. "I've heard people say 'I get by on five to six hours' like it's badge of honor."
In her book, Sleep Away the Pounds, to be published next month by Warner Books, Ms. Calbom puts rest on par with diet and exercise. She said that sleeping is "the missing link" in many weight-loss programs.
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