Diets and Weight Loss

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?

Introduction
Fire Up Your Metabolism : 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever
by Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., Tammy Lakatos Shames
Dieters today are frustrated and discouraged. Their strict eating plans are carried out in vain and their trips to the gym don't pay off. If they do see some success, their results quickly vanish as soon as they veer - even slightly - from regimented diet

The Phenotype Factor, DNA-Based Weight Loss
Fat Is Not Your Fate
by Susan Mitchell, Ph.D., R.D., Catherine Christie, Ph.D.
Being clear about what a gene is and what it isn't will help explain phenotypes. A gene is a recipe for making a protein. Our very lives depend on these proteins because they precipitate each and every physiological action at a molecular level.

Outsmarting Your Genetic Legacy
Fat Is Not Your Fate
by Susan Mitchell, Ph.D., R.D., Catherine Christie, Ph.D.
Why a Phenotype-Based Diet? The Link Between Genetics and Weight. Though weight problems may be hereditary, they need not be a life-long affliction. Our experience as nutrition professionals upholds this, and emerging genomic data demonstrates why.

Introduction
Energy Breakthrough: Jump-start Your Weight Loss and Feel Great
by Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York
Everywhere I go these days people ask me where I get the energy to do all the things I do. It's a good question, and sometimes I don't know the answer myself.

Food... It's Strong Medicine
Earl Mindell's Food as Medicine
by Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
In 400 B.C., Hippocrates, the 'father of modern medicine,' said, 'Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.' After more than 2000 years, the medical establishment has finally acknowledged that he was right: food can be strong medicine.

Introduction
Drink to Your Health
by Anne McIntyre
Liquid is vital to life, whether it is drunk in the form of plain, unadulterated water, or exotic concoctions on festive occasions, and drinks fulfil a whole range of functions in our lives.

The Dish on Your Diet
The Dish
by Carolyn O'Neil, M.S., R.D., Densie Webb, Ph.D., R.D.
Welcome to the club, girl! You're about to become one of us now - that elite but growing group of smart, stylish women who have learned that the more you know, the more you can eat. That fact has been, up to now, a well-kept secret.

My Truths
Dieting With the Duchess
by Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York
I want to tell you that no matter how insurmountable your problems may seem, you can change your life for the better. If I can do it, so can you. In many ways, I feel everything finally came together for me last summer, I went to Washington, D.C.

Introducing DASH
The DASH Diet for Hypertension
by Thomas Moore, M.D.
The Isosceles Triangle Diet. The Bacon Grease and Beer Diet. We haven't heard of either of these diets, but it wouldn't surprise us to learn they existed!

What are carbohydrates?
The Carbohydrate, Fiber, and Sugar Counter
by Jo-Ann Heslin, M.A., R.D., Annette B. Natow, Ph.D., R.D.
Only The Carbohydrate, Fiber, and Sugar Counter gives you the whole carbohydrate story with all the information you need to make the best food choices. Carbohydrates are favorites.

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The Body Shape Solution to Weight Loss and Wellness
by Marie Savard, M.D., Carol Svec
Show me a woman - any woman - and I can forecast her health destiny just by observing her body shape. I know who will probably die of heart disease or breast cancer, who will have a rough transition through menopause, who will likely end up with a broken

The Jay Way
The Body Code: A Personal Wellness And Weight Loss Plan At The World Famous Green Valley Spa
by Jay Cooper, Kathryn Lance
Hi, I'm Jay Cooper, Wellness Director of the Green Valley Spa in St. George, Utah. For more than twenty years I've helped thousands of clients unlock the secrets of their Body Code.

The Fourth Cornerstone: Inner Strength
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
For some reason the idea that losing weight requires willpower has gone out of vogue. Instead, the emphasis over the last few years has been on taking the easy way out. Eat more, weigh less! Exercise just ten minutes a day for a better body!

The Third Cornerstone: Commitment
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
You don't have to look far within our society to see that commitments are no longer as sacred as they once were. It's almost as though not honoring a commitment has become socially acceptable.

Asking the Big Questions
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
Sometimes it takes a crisis to bring your life into focus. I was 39 years old and had ended up in the hospital in critical condition, my body overcome by diabetes.

Mutual Support
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
Dee: I am five feet, two inches and used to wear a size 20. I had to shed about 60 pounds to reach my goal. Looking back, I realize that though I lost all that weight in about six months, it took about 12 years for me to find the will to change my

Making Her Health a Priority
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
Many women continue to carry some 'baby weight' after they have a child. Multiply it by five - I am the mother of five children, ages 3 to 14 - and you can see my predicament. After giving birth to my last child, I found that I weighed 421 pounds.

Giving Up Easily: Do setbacks routinely knock you off course?
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
Life is full of setbacks, but some people don't see them for what they really are: temporary, not permanent, hindrances. What happens to you when the gains you made in an area - be it losing weight, mastering a sport or hobby, succeeding on the job

Get to Know Yourself
Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover
by Bob Greene
People who are successful at weight loss have asked the hard questions and responded with straightforward answers. No rationalizations, no excuses. Instead of taking a cosmetic approach to the problem, they've gotten to the root of their behavior, making