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The Golden Gate Diet is a medically sound way to lose weight. It is based
on the experiences of my patients and on the scientific literature.
I am a physician with expertise in nutrition, and my patients want to know two things
from me. First, they want to know what foods will cause them to lose weight. Second, they
want to know what foods are healthy to eat. By healthy foods, I mean foods that prevent
disease or at least do not cause disease. That is, foods that prevent heart disease and foods
that prevent cancer.
These are separate problems. Certainly many foods that will cause you to lose weight
are healthy. But there are also foods that will cause you to lose weight but will cause heart
disease. And there are even some foods—for example, nuts—that will cause you to gain
weight but are so effective at preventing heart disease that you should eat them anyway.
And, of course, there are many foods that cause you to gain weight and are very
unhealthy.
So this book answers two questions:
How do I lose weight?
What foods do I eat to stay healthy?
How do you lose weight? The key to losing weight is eating foods with a low “caloric
density.”
Now this book is not hard to understand. You don’t need to know any math to follow
this diet. I have done all the math for you.
As you will see, if you eat foods with a low caloric density, you will lose weight. If you
eat foods with a high caloric density, you will gain weight. The caloric density of any food
is a number—and that number is listed in the charts in chapter 9.
If the caloric density is less than 2, eat the food, it will help you lose weight. The lower
the number, the better.
If the caloric density is between 2 and 3, go easy.
If the caloric density is greater than 3, in general you should eat very little of that
food—it will cause you to gain weight.
 
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