Preface
What do you need to know to achieve total and “perfect 10” health? First, you
need to understand nutrition in plain and simple English. The information I will
share with you in this book is lifesaving. Although you may be unfamiliar at first
with some of the medical terms I use, I strove to make this book easy to
understand. Why? I’ve written this for everyone, so it doesn’t matter if you’re
or 80 years old, 15 or 150 pounds overweight—or not overweight at all. The
knowledge you will gain from reading The Perfect 10 Diet will empower you to
improve your overall health. I am confident that you, like my patients, will enjoy
eating the foods included on the Perfect 10 Diet as much as you’ll enjoy the
diet’s many benefits.
You may be wondering about the title of this book and diet. The Perfect
Diet is an ultimate makeover plan that works by balancing ten hormones, and it
can change the way you look on the outside just as much as it changes the way
you feel on the inside. I realized that the Perfect 10 Diet works better than all the
other diets I’d ever reviewed before because it targets the ten hormones that keep
us healthy and fit. It was a true reflection of how the diet really works and its
endless benefits on health that go far beyond optimization of hormones.
But I have a confession to make: my true motive with the provocative title The
Perfect 10 Diet is to get your attention.
When I first developed the diet, I had no title in mind. Naturally, Dr. Michael
Aziz’s Diet sounded good to me. But I quickly realized that it could take years for
this diet to become popular. The health of the American public today is in dire
straits, and we are simply running out of time.That does not mean, though, that
this book is about superficial change. I was asked during a TV interview if I
thought I was a “perfect 10.” The interviewer went on to ask, “Isn’t ‘perfect 10’
an exaggeration of what your diet can really do in terms of physical
appearance?” I was offended and shocked by this question, which I thought
reflected the superficiality of our modern society. But I quickly gathered myself
together and replied, “Yes, I am absolutely sure I am a perfect 10. I am healthy,
happy, and fit, and I have the energy of an 18-year-old.” The Perfect 10 Diet will
help you achieve your absolute best, in health and looks. But if you bought this
book thinking like this interviewer, or if you’re obsessed with the extreme