According to the author of the Book The Four Hour Body, it is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade to accomplish and manage to hack the human body. It contains all the valuable wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, knowledge of Medical Doctors and thousands of haw-dropping personal experimentation. The book contains the methods on how you could reach your genetic potential in 6 months, sleep 2 hours a day and performance enhancements and how to lose more fat than a marathon by bingeing. Yes, this is not your everyday normal, just another diet and fitness book.
This book contains a meal plan which includes a variety of foods and vegetables. The list contains, egg whites, chicken, grass-fed organic beef, pork, fish, lentils, black beans, pinto beans, red beans, soybeans, spinach, asparagus, peas, broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, sauerkraut, tomatoes, avocados and red wine, and yes, that is a lot of beans recommended for the diet plan. The following is a sample of Four-Hour Body meal plan. This meal plan is based on the slow-carb diet plan provided by the book. It helps you control the intake of carbohydrates you do in a normal day. Slow-carb diet is a large factor in diet plans and must be followed strictly and accordingly. Your breakfast should contain scrambled egg whites with one whole egg, black beans and mixed vegetables. You need to stack up proteins early in the morning because you will need the energy later for your weight loss regime while green vegetables as we all know, is good for the system. Lunch time must contain chicken, any parts actually, but I recommend the thigh part. It must also contain black beans and mixed vegetables. Dinner is not all bad; you will get to eat grass-fed organic beef, lentils and mixed vegetables and yes, at last, a glass of red wine. You must be wondering why red wine is a part of the diet even though it may contain alcohol.
The reason behind this is because red wine has a lot of benefits for a man's health. Almost everyone nowadays is prone to smoking, but with the effect of red wine, it decreases the harmful effect of the smoke. It helps your body fight coronary heart disease by reducing the production of low density lipoprotein cholesterol. It promotes blood clot formations. It relaxes your Arteries. The Red wine appears favorably to maintain healthy blood vessels by promoting the formation of nitric oxide, the key chemical relaxing factor that plays an important role in the regulation of vascular tone. It helps lower post-meal blood pressure in hypertensive persons. It reduces the risk of kidney stone formation. It helps to lower the risks to Alzheimer's disease.
The Four Hour Body states that you can lose weight without doing exercise simply by just following the Slow-Carb diet but is also provides exercises recommended for both weight loss and muscle gain. It also includes the exercise that the author used to gain 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days.