The Body Book
Superstar Hollywood actress and former model Cameron Diaz shares her advice on how to become happier, healthier and stronger.Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women all over the world throughout her career. But, as she’d be the first to admit, she hasn’t always been as health-conscious as she is now.As a young woman, Cameron didn’t always think about how the decisions she was making about her diet and lifestyle would impact her health for years to come. But over the past fifteen years, she has discovered that what she eats is inseparably linked to how she feels and looks. That knowledge – that nutrition impacts life – fuelled her hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, Cameron shares what she’s learned and offers a comprehensive guide for women to look and feel their best.Cameron doesn’t offer a one-size-fits-all program or set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year; instead, The Body Book offers a long-term approach to a long, strong, healthy life. Informed by experts and grounded in science, but brought to life by Cameron’s passion and personal experiences, The Body Book is an empowering, educational, and inspiring handbook for women everywhere.
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Dedicated to your body.
INTRODUCTION: Knowledge Is Power
PART ONE NUTRITION:Love Your Hunger
1 You Are What You Eat
2 Food, Glorious Food!
3 Hunter, Gatherer, Drive-Thru-er
4 How to Love Your Hunger
5 Eating the Sun
6 Complex Carbs Are Energy
7 Sugar Is Not a Nutrient
8 Protein Is Strength
9 Fat Is Essential
10 Eating the Stars
11 Water Is Life
12 The Digestion Chapter
13 Say Hello to Your Little Friends
PART TWO FITNESS:The Body Wants to Be Strong
14 The Body Wants to Be Strong
15 The Magic of Movement
16 Energy In, Energy Out
17 Oxygen Is Energy
18 Structural Support
19 Muscle Woman
20 The Basics of Training
21 Your Lady Body
22 The ABC’s of Zzzz’s
PART THREE MIND:You’ve Got This
23 You’ve Got This
24 The State of Being Connected
25 Decoding the Modern Appetite
26 Unpacking Your Habits
27 Nothing’s for Free
28 Planning for Your Nutrition
29 Finding Your Inner Athlete
CONCLUSION: Now You Really Got This
Acknowledgements
Notes
Supplementary Reading List
List of Searchable Terms
Copyright
About the Publisher
Thank you for picking up this book. Before we launch into Chapter 1, I want to tell you why I wrote it, what it means to me and what I hope it will mean to you.
As human beings, when we have experiences that bring us great joy and fulfilment, all we want is to share that excitement with others. Like when you eat something incredibly delicious and immediately turn to the person next to you and say, “Taste this!” Or when you hear a really amazing song and then download it for a friend because you can’t wait for her to hear. Or when you learn a piece of information that just really blows your mind, something that feels so big and important that you want to share it with everyone you can find!
That’s how I feel about this book. Everything in these pages is information that I use to live my life, information that makes me feel so excited and joyous that I just had to share it with you. That’s why I’ve written it – because educating yourself about your body is one of the most important things that you can do. As you read through these pages, you’re going to learn about nutrition and how to feed yourself deliciously and nutritiously. You’re going to learn about fitness and how your body is affected by movement. You’re going to learn about your mind, so that you can become self-aware and find your inner discipline. Because nutrition and fitness and awareness and discipline are not just words: they are tools. They are power. They are ways to care for yourself that empower you to be stronger, smarter, more confident and truer to yourself.
In the subtitle of this book are the words ‘Your Amazing Body’. I believe just that: your body is amazing. Right now, whatever shape you are in, your body is an amazing machine that does so many cool things, from using the air in our environment to keep your brain alive to turning a bowl of cereal into an explosion of energy that allows you to run down the street to catch the bus. And knowing how to take care of that body is the most important information you can ever learn. Ever.
Because your amazing body is the only body that you will ever have. The same body you’ve had since you were a baby is the body you will inhabit when you are seventy-five years old. And along the way, yes, it has changed, and it will continue to change – but it is still yours. No matter what shape it is, how much you love or hate it, whether it feels tired and worn down or lively and invigorated, your body is the most precious thing you have.
Your body is your past, present and future. It carries the memory of your ancestors, because you are made up of the genes given to you by your parents and their parents before them. It is the culmination of everything you have ever eaten, all the physical activity that you did or didn’t do, all the efforts that you’ve made to understand and take care of it. And how well you care for it will determine how well you are able to live your life. So whether you wish you had longer legs or smaller hips, bigger boobs or less pointy ears, this book is for you. It’s a guide to accepting what you have and loving it with everything you’ve got, to appreciating how incredible this physical vehicle is. It’s a guide to maximizing your strength and endurance so that your body can take you everywhere you want to go in life: to all of your success, to the love of your life, to your passions and adventures. The body that you have is the body that will literally carry you there. So if you want to get to all of those wonderful destinations, you have to build the strongest, most capable, most powerful body that you can. You must learn to live well in
