Diets and Weight Loss

Introduction
The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger
by Diana Schwarzbein, M.D.
In medical training, I was taught that a low-fat diet high in complex carbohydrates prevented weight gain and disease. I believed what my professors said. Early on, I advocated low-fat diets. But this soon changed.

Choosing the Best Proteins
Fire Up Your Metabolism : 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever
by Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., Tammy Lakatos Shames
Many protein foods, such as many of the 'thumbs-down' proteins, contain saturated fat, which raises your cholesterol level and is responsible for making your blood 'sticky.'

The Macrobiotic Way of Eating
The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health: A Complete Guide to Naturally Preventing and Relieving More Than 200 Chronic Conditions and Disorders
by Michio Kushi, Alex Jack
As the 21st century begins, the world faces an unprecedented health and environmental crisis. New diseases and epidemics have emerged, family and social conflicts have increased, and ecological threats have multiplied and spread, imperiling humanity's

Facts
The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger
by Diana Schwarzbein, M.D.
Here are the facts: Claim: Eating fat makes you fat. If you do not cat fat you cannot gain fat. Fact: A low-fat diet makes you fat. Eating fat causes you to lose body fat and reach your ideal body composition.

The Lowdown on High Cholesterol
The American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook
by American Heart Association
Many Americans are lowering their cholesterol level, quitting smoking, watching their blood pressure, and becoming more active. To us at the American Heart Association, this is gratifying because it means that many people are reducing their risk of heart

Drugs Are Not the Solution
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
New drugs are continually introduced that attempt to lessen the effects of our nation's self-destructive eating behavior. Most often, our society treats disease after the degenerative illness has appeared, an illness that is the result of from forty

Man the Hunter
The Protein Power LifePlan
by Michael R. Eades, M.D., Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
In our living room on the coffee table sits one of our most prized possessions, a fifteen-to-twenty-thousand-year-old cave-bear skull that we got from Russia. From back of the head to snout the skull measures almost two feet in length and sports canine

Introduction
The Schwarzbein Principle, The Program: Losing Weight the Healthy Way
by Diana Schwarzbein, M.D.
Are you looking for a health program that does not require you to starve yourself or exercise all day long to get results? Are you so confused by all the diets out there that you don't know what to believe anymore?

Do You Have a Slow Metabolism?
Fire Up Your Metabolism : 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever
by Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., Tammy Lakatos Shames
Take This Test and Find Out. Do you have a hard time losing weight? Do you gain weight more easily than you lose it? Do you frequently skip breakfast? Do you often skip other meals? Do you often wait longer than five hours between meals/snacks?

Chapter 10
Slim & Fit Kids: Raising Healthy Children in a Fast-Food World
by Judy Mazel, John E. Monaco, M.D.
More than thirty percent of our children are overweight; one in five are considered obese. Asthma, diabetes, clinical depression, as well as excessive strains on little growing bones too small to carry the excess weigh imposed on them are all symptoms

Fat Food Nation
The pH Miracle for Weight Loss: Balance Your Body Chemistry, Achieve Your Ideal Weight
by Robert O. Young, Ph.D., Shelley Redford Young
Let's start with a little math. How many pounds do you need to shed before you reach your ideal, healthy weight? 10? 30? 100? Whatever your answer, multiply it by 2. You are now looking at the maximum number of days it will take you to reach that ideal we

101 Ways to Change
Think Thin, Be Thin: 101 Psychological Ways to Lose Weight
by Doris Wild Helmering, Dianne Hales
One of the truisms of psychology is that a problem never has just one cause, but rather stems from many causes. Just as there is no single cause for a problem, there is no one solution. For most problems, there are many solutions that can and do work.

Introduction
You Can't Quit 'til You Know What's Eating You
by Donna LeBlanc, M.Ed.
Do you find it impossible to have just one Twinkie? Do you start a new diet every Monday? Do you feel trapped by your eating habits? This book is about permanent weight loss. It stresses that understanding, not depriving, produces the results you want.

Metabolic Programming: What it is, and what it can do for your child
Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six
by Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D., Melvin B. Heyman, M.D., Lisa Tracy
This book began in that moment 6 years ago, when I was that excited and puzzled mother-to-be. As a nutrition researcher, I have spent 20 years studying the importance of healthy food at all stages of life.

Prescription and Over-the-Counter Weight-Loss Drugs
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
All of the prescription weight-loss drugs work by suppressing the appetite except for Xenical (orlistat). Approved by the FDA in 1999, Xenical is the first in a new class of anti-obesity drugs known as lipase inhibitors.

What's Under the Hood
Great Food, Great Sex
by Robert Fried, Ph.D., Lynn Edlen-Nezin, Ph.D.
The sexual needs of men and women may differ categorically, but there is considerable overlap, particularly with regard to function. And in terms of our understanding of sexual function, science has come a long way, baby.

But Doctor, I'm Telling the Truth
Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?
by Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D.
My patient looks troubled. I don't care what that doctor says, there has to be something wrong with my metabolism. She's one of today's new patients. Her name is Marie. We've just met. She doesn't hesitate to tell me of her dissatisfaction with the last

Diets - The Ultimate Empty Promise
Suzanne Somers' Get Skinny on Fabulous Food
by Suzanne Somers
If you've ever had a problem with your weight, you've probably tried one diet after the next. At first you stick to it diligently. You're excited because you really think this is going to be the one to solve all your problems.

Sip Your Fat Away; EGCG (Green Tea Extract)
The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy
by Harry Preuss, M.D., Bill Gottlieb
We humans drink more tea than any other liquid, except for plain old H2O. And Bill Gottlieb does his part to keep tea number two. Every morning before work, he makes himself a big pot of green tea

Why Are We Doing This, Anyway?
Living Low-Carb
by Fran McCullough
The objective of all low-carb diets, which date back at least to the early nineteenth century, has always been weight loss. Although plenty of low-fat advocates continue to insist that it's only water that's lost on a low-carb regimen, many patients using