Celebrity nutritional consultant Donna Gates is offering her expertise with quick and easy tips for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthier, without going to extremes. Known as the world’s top digestive health specialist and for her best-selling book, “The Body Ecology: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity” (Hay House/ $15.95), Gates says that many people may be suffering from a systemic fungal/yeast infection and not even know it. This imbalance in the internal ecosystem can be a key factor not only in weight gain, but can be the cause of headaches, joint and muscle pain, food allergies, digestive problems, immune-related disorders, and more. In her new book, “The Baby Boomer Diet: Body Ecology’s Guide to Growing Younger” (Hay House/ Hardback/ $27.95), she reveals anti-aging remedies that can make everyone feel and look younger. Based on her years of writing, research, and knowledge, Gates says there are three easy food tips that everyone can do now to jump-start eating their way to better health and well-being.

As a nutritional expert, Gates explains that most diets fail because they are about deprivation and denial, rather than life-affirming changes in behavior and great-tasting foods that nourish and sustain the body. “The Body Ecology Diet” is a cutting edge lifestyle choice that provides simple changes to your eating habits. The diet brings to the forefront seven basic universal principles of eating and healing, such as maintaining a pH balanced diet and proper food combining. While Gates recommends reading the books for a better understanding of the basic principles of the diet, she says there are three easy tips that everyone can do now that will guarantee results.

Start your new regime by purchasing oils that are organic and unrefined, resulting in the best health benefits, lower cholesterol, easier digestion, and a healthier heart. Rather than buying refined vegetable and canola oils, substitute these kitchen staples with coconut oil, pumpkin-seed oil and walnut oil.

Cut down on sugar intake, yet still satisfy your craving, by substituting sugar with all natural Stevia. Stevia is an herb that is sweeter than sugar, but still low in calories and can be added in beverages and foods.

Start introducing fermented foods into your diet. Fermented foods are not just yogurt - they also include cultured vegetables, cultured vegetable juice, and young coconut kefir - a fermented milk product - to name a few. There are many benefits in eating fermented foods. They can help control cravings, provide more nutrients, improve digestion, and boost your immune system. The macrobiotics in fermented foods eats away at the sugar, thereby avoiding any negative changes to your body.

Making drastic changes to your diet can be overwhelming, but these three steps are a good start and can be done by anyone at any age. In “The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity” and her new book, “The Baby Boomer Diet: Body Ecology’s Guide to Growing Younger,” Gates provides in greater detail an explanation of the basic principles, questionnaires, strategies for staying satisfied, recipes incorporating key ingredients, and more. The books are available at amazon.com, bn.com and in bookstores nationwide.

ABOUT DONNA GATES:

Donna Gates, a celebrity nutritional consultant, author and lecturer has helped thousands of people overcome candidiasis and other immune system disorders. Her book, “The Body Ecology Diet” was written after years of research to find a cure for her own candida-related health problems. Frustrated with conventional medicine, she embarked on a long course of study into many different healing concepts, including ancient Chinese medicine, macrobiotics, natural hygiene, raw foods and mega-supplement therapy. Incorporating the most beneficial components of each concept into her own system of health and healing, her success inspired her to share it with others. The "Body Ecology Diet" book has evolved into a complete system for rebuilding immunity, has sold over 250,000 copies, and is now in its 11th edition.

Body Ecology and Donna Gates are both frequently mentioned in books and natural health magazines. Gates is a reoccurring guest on radio shows and leads workshops to educate the public, and is well regarded for introducing Americans to new concepts and insights for using medicinal foods. The author and nutritional expert also pioneered "young coconut kefir", a healthful, nutrient-rich drink. Her latest focus is on resolving the crisis of our children's health, and she is committed to preventing and overcoming autism.

For more information on the Body Ecology diet, visit http://bodyecology.com/. To take a quiz or learn more about her new book, The Baby Boomer Diet, visit http://babyboomerdiet.com/.