Restructuring Body Composition
How the kind, not the amount, of weight loss defines a pathway to optimal health
The Dawning of a Paradigm Shift in Ageing and Weight Loss Research
From the back cover
Restructuring Body Composition is today's clarion call for a shift in thinking about healthcare in the 21st century.
In the early chapters, Dr. Kaats leads us through a description of the body composition and blood chemistry testing technology he used while conducting clinical trials over the past 20 years. These data have been used to compile a 40,000 test database - one of the largest national samples available. The data reveal the frequent, sometimes tragic, errors committed as a result of using the amount, instead of the kind of weight that is lost in evaluating the safety and effectiveness of weight loss interventions.
Using data from long-term glyconutritional intervention trials, he cites studied showing how a pedometer-based behaviour modification plan with glyconutritional supplementation contributes to positive structure and function changes in body composition.
Restructuring is a direct response to the U.S. Surgeon Generals's "call to action" for researchers and healthcare professionals to aid in the reversal of the dramatic decline in America's bone health. In addition to a growing number of high-risk elderly people, a wake up call has been sounded by studies reporting that 85% of adolescent girls and 62% of boys do not receive adequate bone-building nutrients during the ages at which most of their bone growth occurs.
A 2006 widely publicised 7 year study points out the need to go beyond calcium and vitamin D for bone health. Restructuring meets this need by offering the reader a practical bone-health program. By combining essential bone-building nutrients with a practical lifetime plan for increasing physical activity, Restructuring provides a pathway to increased vitality, improved quality of life and optimal health.
