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The 5:2 Diet Book

Feast for 5 Days a Week and Fast for 2 to Lose Weight, Boost Your Brain and Transform Your Health
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The 5:2 Diet Book by Kate Harrison introduces a revolutionary part-time weight loss approach that delivers lifelong health and anti-ageing benefits. By significantly reducing calorie intake for just one or two days a week, this intermittent fasting method triggers profound physical and mental improvements, protecting and repairing the body and brain. The book is a comprehensive guide packed with science, recipes, personalised meal plans, practical tips, and real-life success stories, offering a flexible, enjoyable, and cost-effective lifestyle change that doesn’t require specialist foods or supplements.
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This book is ideal for anyone interested in sustainable weight loss, improving overall health, and exploring intermittent fasting. Suitable for both men and women, first-time dieters and experienced individuals looking for a flexible, science-backed method without the need for specialised diet products.

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Feast for 5 days a week and fast for 2 to lose weight, boost your brain and transform your health.

Feast for 5 days a week and fast for 2 to lose weight, boost your brain and transform your health.

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The 5:2 Diet Book will transform your body, your mind, and your health. It's the revolutionary part-time weight loss diet with lifelong health and anti-ageing results. This is the simplest, most flexible, and most health enhancing weight loss programme you'll ever follow— and with this book to guide you, you can start today.

You'll still get to eat all the foods you love but enjoy incredible health benefits, with positive effects on cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and more. Intermittent fasting is revolutionising the weight loss world. Simply by eating significantly less for one or two days a week you can trigger incredible physical and mental changes that protect your body and brain from damage and help it repair itself.

And The 5:2 Diet Book—packed with tips, science, recipes, inspiration, and case studies from over thirty dieters—will help you join the revolution to lose weight, boost your brain, and transform your body. And it'll even save you money, with no specialist diet foods or supplements required. No wonder it's as popular with men as it is with women—and with first-time dieters as with weight loss veterans.

Journalist and former yoyo dieter Kate Harrison has finally won the battle with her weight—now she shares the secrets that are helping thousands of men and women transform their bodies. The 5:2 Diet Book is your comprehensive guide to the wonderful world of intermittent fasting. It includes:

  • All you need to trigger the 'healing' mode that happens when you restrict your diet for as little as one day a week.
  • The incredible effects on your brain cells.
  • The transformation in how you view hunger and food.
  • The cost savings you can make—saving pounds from your food bill as you lose them from your body!
  • 5:2 your way—how to personalise the diet to your exact requirements and preferences.
  • Detailed meal plans, and simple but healthy recipes...
  • Or ready-made suggestions for when you don't feel like cooking.
  • Hundreds of real-life tips and success stories from men and women like you.

This is more than another diet craze—it's anything but crazy and it's a lifestyle you'll want to adopt for the rest of your life.

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Closer praises the book as "The 5:2 diet made easy!" while Big Issue in the North highlights Harrison's clear presentation of facts, practical tips, anecdotes, and recipes, making it accessible and useful for readers.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781409146698

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 February 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 132.0mm

Weight: 212g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Before becoming a novelist, Kate Harrison worked for a news agency, reporting mainly for the national tabloids. She then moved to the BBC where she was a reporter in regional news in Bristol and Birmingham, producer on Newsround, and worked on Panorama and other investigative/consumer shows and documentaries. Kate is the author of eight novels, including the Secret Shopper series (Orion), and, most recently, The Boot Camp (Orion 2012). In 2011, Orion Children's Books published the first of her young adult trilogy, Soul Beach. Kate has written for national newspapers and magazines including the Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Red and Cosmopolitan.

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