Your body is not just something you have, it’s who you are.Loving it means understanding it.Actionable:Shift your focus from appearance to function. Ask: “What does my body allow me to do today?”

Your Body Is a Miracle—Treat It Like One

Hunger is not your enemy. It’s your body’s wisdom calling.Respecting it is the foundation of a balanced relationship with food.Actionable:Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full.Avoid restrictive diets. Eat whole, real, plant-focused food.

Hunger Is Natural—Honor It

Your body wants to move. It was designed to.Exercise isn’t punishment—it’s celebration.Actionable:Find a movement practice you enjoy: dance, walk, stretch, lift, play.Do a little every day.

Movement Is Medicine

Understanding your body helps you make better choices.Learn how digestion, metabolism, hormones, and sleep cycles really work.Actionable:Track your cycle, sleep, energy, and digestion to get familiar with your body’s rhythms.

Knowledge is Power—Know Your Biology

There’s no “perfect” body. There’s only your real, dynamic, evolving body.Wellness is about consistent care, not quick fixes.Actionable:Make small, repeatable habits:Hydrate.Sleep well.Eat real food.Breathe deeply.Move daily.Practice gratitude.

Health is a Daily Practice, Not a Goal

Don’t give away your power to media, fads, or perfection culture.You are in charge of how you feel, look, move, and live.Empowering Reminder:“Strong is beautiful. Healthy is sexy. Knowledge is freedom.”

You’re the Boss of Your Body

The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a #1 New York Times bestseller.Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection.Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day.The Body Bookdoes not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.

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Repeating key ideas across time solidifies learning.Spread your message, then revisit it in different ways (e.g., stories, visuals, applications).

Repetition Wins

People only remember what feels relevant to them.Link new ideas to personal goals, emotions, or experiences.

Make it Matter

The brain processes images faster and more effectively than text or speech.Use pictures, diagrams, or metaphors to anchor your message.

Visuals Trump Words

Stories trigger emotional engagement and are easier to recall.Wrap data or ideas in narrative structures.

Tell Stories

Memorized speeches feel fake. The brain prefers natural conversation.Learn your core points, then speak authentically and fluidly.

Ditch the Scripts

People only pay attention to what they choose to focus on.Control focus with cues like gestures, pauses, and rhetorical questions.

Use the Spotlight Effect

Challenge improves memory.Don’t make everything easy—well-designed difficulty strengthens learning.

Embrace Struggle

The brain stores knowledge in networks.Show how ideas link together, rather than presenting facts in isolation.

Connect Ideas

Sleep helps solidify memory.Encourage breaks and reflection rather than info overload.

Let Them Sleep on It

The brain remembers the unexpected.Use novelty, humor, or contrast to grab attention.

Surprise Matters

People engage more when challenged intelligently.Speak with clarity, not simplification.

Don’t Dumb it Down

Emotional content boosts recall and action.Make your audience feel something—curiosity, urgency, joy, etc.

Engage Emotion

Influence isn’t about being perfect; it’s about being real and relatable.Show vulnerability and passion to inspire trust and connection.

Be Human

Stop dumping information. Start shaping experience. Influence happens when people feel, connect, struggle, and see themselves in the message.

Key Takeaway

To truly influence others, especially in teaching, presenting, or leading, you must communicate in line with how the brain actually learns. Each lesson is based on neuroscience and psychology, focused on how people best receive, retain, and apply information.

Love it or hate it, we are all teachers. Whether walking clients through a new program, guiding an audience through a novel proposition, or helping our children to kick a soccer ball, nearly every day we work to disseminate knowledge and wisdom to others. The problem is that very few of us have ever been taught how to teach! Drawing on Jared Cooney Horvath’s nearly 15 years of experience conducting brain research at prominent universities, teaching students from 10 to 80 years of age, and working closely with organizations and schools across 4 continents, Stop Talking, Start Influencing outlines 12 scientific principles of how people learn. The result is a book that shows readers how to impart their knowledge to others in a manner that sticks with and truly influences them — regardless of the situation or circumstance. For every business leader sick of repeating themselves ad nauseam to colleagues and clients, for every coach tired of endlessly drilling athletes without seeing meaningful improvement, for every entrepreneur who’s had enough of pouring their heart into presentations only to see no lasting impact among the audience … it’s time to stop talking and start influencing!

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The Body Book

Stop Talking, Start Influencing

It's time to Read like a Pro.

It's time to
Read like a Pro.