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The Fast Diet

By: Dr. Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer
Narrated by: Dr. Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer
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One of the best-selling diet guides in the UK is The Fast Diet audiobook, written and narrated by Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer. Learn how to lose weight and keep it off forever. The key, as outlined in this guide, is to eat normally for five days of the week and keep two days where you watch what you eat – easy! Hear about the success stories, the best way to do this diet and the science behind why it works so effectively. The ease of having this diet on audio means that advice and encouragement is available anywhere, anytime. Download from Audible today.

Publisher's summary

Not just weight loss - better health too! The authors of the book that is still the number one UK nonfiction best seller six months after publication now present their work for audiobook listeners and make it even easier to adopt their brilliant system.

Far from being just another fad, the Fast Diet is a radical new way of thinking about food, a lifestyle choice that could transform your health. This is your indispensable guide to simple and effective weight loss, without fuss or the need to endlessly deprive yourself. Eat normally for five days each week, and cut your calories on the other two. Scientific trails of Intermittent Fasting have shown that it will not only help the pounds fly off but also lower your risk of a range of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Dr Michael Mosley, the medical journalist who presented the BBC Horizon programme which alerted the world to the IF phenomenon, presents the science behind the 5:2 diet, and Mimi Spencer, award-winning writer, explains the practicalities. It really is straightforward to incorporate this groundbreaking weight-loss system.

©2013 Parenting Matters Ltd and Mimi Spencer (P)2013 Strathmore Publishing Ltd

Critic reviews

‘The biggest diet revolution since the Atkins’ ( Daily Mail)
‘Intermittent fasting is ideal for those of us who can just about manage to be good, but lack the long-distance rigour of saints’ (Allison Pearson)
‘The scientific evidence that Intermittent Fasting can have numerous health benefits is strong’ (Professor Mark Mattson, National Institute on Aging)

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Awesome intro to a life changing proposition

Have listened to a couple of books on fasting this week. I was a bit mystified by the focus on low fat in this one given the surge in published findings on the benefits of high fat easing of the last decade. Still, this book has been planned superbly. Its content is both accessible and inspirational. It is practical and practicable. And the formats of the different sections stimulated interest throughout. Superb job - very well done - and thankyou!

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I can see how this book will help many people. Perhaps not super active types due to calorific need and hormones making fasting tricky - but office types absolutely this will really help control weight & health. If you are in a chair all day, a bit older, carrying some health issues and thus cannot exercise much - here is your diet.

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brilliant book

the fasting diet is a fantastic book. well written, well presented and is the start of a new life for my family and i.

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Awesome Book.

What made the experience of listening to The Fast Diet the most enjoyable?

I dont have to read the book. And knowing that not eating for a while is actually healthy, and not what i have been used to hearing from Doctors ect..

What does Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Mimi Spencers voice and reading was great. I love her voice.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me feel great. Because now i have the knowledge to lose that extra weight ,once and for all.

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