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Slow-Carb Diet

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
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Author Tim Ferriss
Country United States
Language English
Subject Health & Fitness, Weight Loss, Diet, Self-help
Genre Non-fiction
Published 2010 (Crown Publishing Group)
Media type Print
Pages 592 pp
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Preceded by The 4-Hour Workweek
Followed by The 4-Hour Chef

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (2010) is the second book by American writer Tim Ferriss.

Ferriss's first book, and the one that made him well-known, was The 4-Hour Workweek. Two facts informed his choice for his new book's topic: Firstly, he felt he did not want to write another book on business, as "I've said what I have to say about business. [...] I don't want to be 'The 4-Hour Workweek' guy; I'd prefer to be known for the way I approach the craft of writing and storytelling." Secondly, of the top ten Google searches bringing visitors to his weblog, four searches were some variation on "lose weight". That, as he put it, left him with "no Option B. [...] my next book was going to be The 4-Hour Body, or I wasn’t going to write another book."

The author spent three years interviewing over 200 experts, from doctors to athletes to black-market drug salesmen. He claims to have recorded every workout he had done since the age of 18, and from 2004 (three years before his first book was published) he had tracked a variety of blood chemistry measurements, including insulin levels, hemoglobin A1c, and free testosterone.

The 4-Hour Body was published on December 14, 2010.

Ferriss describes The 4-Hour Body as "unlike any diet or fitness book...It's more like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book for the human body, full of ridiculous stories, practical philosophies, and larger-than-life characters." The book covers over 50 topics, including rapid fat loss, increasing strength, boosting endurance and polyphasic sleep.

There are five main food groups that are consumed on a slow carb diet: animal protein, vegetables, legumes, spices and fats/oils/nuts. A typical slow-carb meal will consist of one portion each of the first three groups and small amounts of the last two. Examples of foods in these groups are chicken, eggs, lamb, pork, fish and beef for protein, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, peas for vegetables, black beans, chickpeas, kidney beans and lentils for legumes, basil, garlic, ginger and salt for spices, coconut oil, macadamia nut oil, olive oil, almonds, brazil nuts, cashews for fats/oils/nuts.

One day per week is reserved as "cheat day" when all foods are allowed, similar to the carb-loading day in a cyclic ketogenic diet. As well as reducing the psychological stress of dieting, this serves to protect against the lowered metabolic rate that often accompanies dieting.


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