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100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on ANY Diet Plan

Based on the nationally-acclaimed book Life is Hard, Food is Easy, author Linda Spangle provides day-by-day lessons that will keep dieters focused and committed to their programs for at least three months or longer. Readers will learn simple tools and concepts they can slip into their daily routines, helping them reach their goals and maintain their success long-term.

Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy: The 5-Step Plan to Overcome Emotional Eating and Lose Weight on Any Diet

Beautifully and gently illumines the source--not just the symptoms--behind emotional eating. Spangle, a registered nurse and weight-loss counselor, recommends techniques and gives practical advice, e.g., writing projects, hugging exercises & positive-thinking mantras, to help overeaters deal with their food-related emotions.

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

The mind makes food-related decisions, more than 200 a day, and many of them without pause for actual thought. This peppy, somewhat pop-psych book argues that we don't have to change what we eat as much as how, and that by making more mindful food-related decisions we can start to eat and live better.

Secrets of a Former Fat Girl

Despite her lack of medical credentials, "Former Fat Girl" Delaney (a freelance journalist currently writing for Health magazine) is convincing simply because she has not only lost weight but has kept it off. She has figured out how to go from size 16 to size 2 jeans and maintain a healthy, slim figure for decades.

You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

Astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why we struggle with weight and waist size. Michael Roizen & Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, translate this cutting-edge information to help shave inches off your waist.

Cracking the Metabolic Code

As doctors face new epidemics of obesity, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, medical researcher James B. LaValle, offers a compelling new approach where he brings together the Nine Key Factors within every human body that are essential for the creation and maintenance of a strong, healthy body at every age and stage of life.

Focus on Body Mass Index and Health Research

In this book, the Federal guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity have defined "overweight" as a bmi value between 25 & 29.9; and "obesity" as a bmi value greater than or equal to 30. BMI is a ratio between weight and height, and is more useful for predicting health risks than the weight alone (ages 18 & up).

Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss

Physician Hyman delivers plenty of scientifically grounded information about weight loss myths, effective individualized strategies centered around the theme of stoking metabolism and a detailed six-week plan—complete with menus and recipes—that "will help you lose 11 to 21 pounds" in those first six weeks.

The Best Life Diet

From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. He helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss. Bob's plan, easily tailored to an array of tastes, lifestyles, and activity levels, acts as your personal trainer and private nutritionist.

The alli Diet Plan

Alli(tm) is the only FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss aid. You need this doctor-designed plan to make the most of this blockbuster product's extraordinary potential. This program makes it easy to follow the Alli(tm) Diet: a low-fat diet with fat grams evenly distributed throughout the day.

Atkins for Life : The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss

Dr. Atkins broadens his scope to include lifestyle elements and a more middle-of-the-road attitude toward carbohydrates with this follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. The main message here is, "people need to understand that what they eat has implications far beyond pounds and inches."

Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks!

If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautéed jumbo shrimp, and double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the Protein Power diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant to eat."

The New Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index - the Dietary Solution for Lifelong Health

Forget the high-carb, low-carb debate. The glycemic index (GI)--a measure of carbohydrate quality based on how quickly a food raises blood-glucose levels--is the dietary key to health, say the authors. Contrary to other diets that treat carbohydrates as all alike, here, carbos are divided according to their GI into two categories - low and high GI.

The Mediterranean Prescription

The renowned Mediterranean island of Sicily has one of the healthiest diets in the world. Now all the succulent flavors and myriad benefits of Sicilian cooking are yours to savor in the very first weight-loss program that will help you effortlessly shed unwanted pounds and become a lifetime prescription of palate-pleasing fare.

The Secret Is Out: Medifast, What Physicians Have Always Known About Weight Loss

Written by a research clinician and the then current CEO of Medifast, Inc., this book discusses the American Obesity Problem, critiques other diet programs, and then explains the Secret of the Medifast Program - a very structured program of pre-packaged, portion-controlled, nutritionally-enhanced meals emphazing soy protein to control hunger and help develop healthy eating habits for life.

Lose Weight with Green Tea: A Safe Weight-Loss Method That Works

Documented research reveals what Asian cultures have known for centuries: Green Tea, rich in antioxidants, increases metabolism and helps burn fat. Lose Weight With Green Tea provides all the information you need to incorporate Green Tea safely and sensibly into a successful weight control program.

PDR for Herbal Medicines, Third Edition

PDR assists the choosing of the best herbs to treat an ailment or help maintain a healthy life. Pertinent information includes: description, physical properties, intended usage and expected effects, precautions and adverse reactions, recommended dosage, reading references, plus photos of many of these herbs as they exist naturally.

Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2006

The ultimate A-to-Z illness and drug reference guide. This revised and updated edition of the bestselling, classic guide provides the necessary information about all the prescription and nonprescription drugs that the public has come to rely on-from one of America's most trusted physicians.

Hypochondriac's Guide to Hoodia Gordonii

This book gathers recent, credible, public information about hoodia gordonii and its active compound (H 57) and presents it in a convenient, easily searched format, specifically intended for high compatibility with Amazon.com's Digital Books initiatives and Google's Book Search program.

Phentermine - A Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to Phentermine. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources.

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