The Coffee Lover's Diet: Change Your Coffee, Change Your Life

Improve your brain. Extend your life. Enhance your health. Discover the power of Polyphenols. Drop those extra pounds.

Dr. Bob Arnot, the bestselling author of The Aztec Diet, shows you how to use the power of America's favorite drink-coffee-to achieve improved health, longevity, mental clarity and weight loss in this unique, groundbreaking wellness guide.

For years, we've been told that coffee was bad for our health. But new research reveals that, consumed properly, coffee can be the healthiest, tastiest part of your day. It can sharpen your focus, jumpstart your workout, help you lose weight, and even help fend off disease, from diabetes and liver disease to heart disease and Parkinson's.

In this revolutionary handbook, Dr. Bob Arnot explains how coffee became a staple of the human diet, and reveals why having a cup is the best thing you can do each day. He also teaches you how to find the best beans from around the world and how to create the best brew and food pairings. The Coffee Lover's Diet includes a full diet plan with corresponding recipes to ensure you get the full benefits of this miracle bean-in the right amounts and in a variety of ways-as well as tips for putting all of this invaluable information and advice to work to help you shed pounds, gain energy, and make the healthiest choices every day.

CHANGE YOUR COFFEE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE

The new research leaves no room for doubt: Drinking coffee can be the healthiest indulgence of your day. Coffee can sharpen your focus, jump-start your workout, boost your performance, help you achieve sustained weight loss, and even fend off many causes of death. However, most coffee drinkers are missing out on the incredible benefits that coffee can provide. The coffee concoctions that many people drink are nutritional nightmares, packed with devastating amounts of fat and sugar. Even many black coffees are made from low-quality, overroasted beans that offer few health benefits. The way that Ikarians experience coffee is a far cry from the way most Americans consume it. We aren’t reaping the full rewards of coffee, because the coffees we favor have lost their healthy components as well as their flavor, so we load them with cream and sugar and syrups that make us fat.

This book will teach you to leave the bad things behind and get the most good out of coffee. Two substances provide its primary benefits: caffeine and polyphenols, which are the same compounds that make fresh fruits and vegetables, red wines, and teas healthy. Polyphenols exert powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on the body, fighting the forces that fuel many diseases. They provide many of coffee’s health benefits. Happily for those who can’t handle much caffeine, phenols, as we’ll call them in this book, are present in decaffeinated coffee as well. In a cup of regular, they even have the power to blunt the jittery effect of caffeine, delivering smoother energy and focus. One of the most important concepts to take from this book is the knowledge that some coffee beans contain far more phenols than others. Those that are packed with the highest levels of these anti-inflammatory antioxidant compounds I like to call high-phenol coffees.

In the coming chapters you’ll learn how to identify high-phenol coffees, which roasts to look for, and how best to grind and brew your coffee. We’ll teach you to make coffee so delicious you wouldn’t dream of polluting it with sugar or half-and-half. Whether you need to lose weight, whether you’re a foodie looking to enhance your sensory experiences or a black-coffee performance athlete, this book will help you choose the right coffee and vastly improve your enjoyment of it. You’ll learn to sidestep the pitfalls of your current coffee habit to discover, instead, the perks of the world’s best coffees.

This book is your key to unlocking their amazing potential.