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Book Diet Failure   the Naked Truth  The Brain Chemistry Key to Losing Weight   And Keeping It Off

Download or read book Diet Failure the Naked Truth The Brain Chemistry Key to Losing Weight And Keeping It Off written by Phoenix Gilman and published by Learn the Truth. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new book diet failure?the Naked Truth Nutritional/Medical Researcher Phoenix Gilman reveals why obesity is so alarmingly prevalent, as well as depression, ADD, even type 2 diabetes and heart disease. More importantly, she discloses a safe, highly effective solution to help overcome these health conditions without the use of deadly drugs! In her progressive book, Phoenix exposes the crucial Serotonin-Insulin Connection to long-term weight loss. Clinical studies substantiate that serotonin, a major neurotransmitter, plays a critical role in our ability to lose weight?and keep it off. However, serotonin also plays a critical role (directly or indirectly) in alleviating depression, insomnia, ADD, type 2 diabetes, even high blood pressure, heart disease, and suicidal behavior. But the key to all of this is understanding how to safely maintain this neurotransmitter. Phoenix says, ?Never before have I come across such compelling information that could so dramatically help millions of people. This research is absolutely vital to overcoming obesity?and many other serious health conditions.?

Book Diet Failure    the Naked Truth

Download or read book Diet Failure the Naked Truth written by Phoenix Gilman and published by G&G Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes the crucial Serotonin-Insulin Connection to successful, long term weight loss. The author explains what causes cravings, emotional eating, and food addictions, and more importantly, how to safely control them so we can have the lean, healthy and attractive body we all desire. However, achieving successful weight loss is just the beginning. As a major neurotransmitter, serotonin also plays a critical rol in helping to prevent and overcome many common diseases.

Book Diet Failure the Naked Truth

Download or read book Diet Failure the Naked Truth written by Phoenix Gilman and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A health/weight loss book that is based on science, not diet and/or marketing hype. A book that is unique--and desperately needed by people everywhere. A book that has the potential to help save millions of lives.

Book Un Dieting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jackie Jaye-Brandt M.A
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2013-01-07
  • ISBN : 1477289364
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Un Dieting written by Jackie Jaye-Brandt M.A and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Un-Dieting was born out of a lifetime of failed diets, addiction to food and drugs, frustration over not having the body we always wanted to have and years of experience working with eating disorders. After years of dieting, we finally learned that diets were the very thing keeping our weight on! Instinctively, we knew this must be true, because we finally were beginning to see that all the weight we lost from diets was regained sooner or later. This book will teach you that the main reason we eat excess calories is due to excess hunger, which is direct result of diets and deprivation. Then we will show you why and how we eat our emotions, rather than expressing them. And most important, you will receive tools: tools for eliminating anger and resentment; tools for transforming fear and worry; and tools for communicating your wants and needs, so that you no longer have to eat your feelings. Lastly, you will notice that when you have self-esteem or confidence, you feel better, you perform better, you communicate better, your relationships are better, and your ability to lose excess weight is greatly enhanced. So, because self esteem goes hand in hand with success in every area of your life, you will receive 20 keys for raising self-esteem on a daily basis.

Book Dr  Colbert s  I Can Do This  Diet

Download or read book Dr Colbert s I Can Do This Diet written by Don Colbert and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES best-selling book! And author of NEW YORK TIMES best seller The Seven Pillars of Health, along with best sellers Toxic Relief, the Bible Cure series, Living in Divine Health, Deadly Emotions, Stress Less, and What Would Jesus Eat? Dr. Don Colbert has sold more than TEN MILLION books. Too many people fight against their own brain and body chemistry when trying to lose weight. This is the reason that up until now, diets have only had a 2% success rate.

Book The Diet Fix

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yoni Freedhoff M.D.
  • Publisher : Harmony
  • Release : 2014-03-04
  • ISBN : 0804137587
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Diet Fix written by Yoni Freedhoff M.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Diet Fix, weight loss expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff offers a groundbreaking, useable guide to begin living happily while losing weight permanently. It is time to break the cycle of traumatic dieting. Despite the success stories publicized by Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, and others, 90% of all diets end in failure. How can we fix the way we lose weight so that we make results last? Whether used on its own or in conjunction with any other diet, Dr. Freedhoff’s program shows how to replace a toxic dieting mindset with positive beliefs and behaviors. Dr. Freedhoff has uncovered the flawed thinking that sabotages even the most earnest weight loss efforts. The majority of dieting or weight loss programs call for regular sacrifice: Give up an entire food group; fight hunger day and night; undertake exhausting and grueling exercise regiments. These approaches are unrealistic, unhealthy, and make it nearly impossible to maintain results. Now, at last, there is hope. In The Diet Fix, Dr. Freedhoff offers a tested program for breaking down the negative thought patterns that prevent people from losing weight and keeping it off. Through the course of years of research and patient treatment, he has developed a 10-Day Reset that supports losing weight while maintaining a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle. This reset is designed to eliminate the habits that so often lead to weight gain: use it to shut down cravings, prevent indulgences from turning into binges, and break up with the scale once and for all. The 10-Day Reset can make any diet more effective, whether it’s low-carb, low-fat, meal replacement, calorie tracking, or anything in between.

Book The Diet Trap Solution

Download or read book The Diet Trap Solution written by Judith S. Beck and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most diet programmes work at first. We lose a few pounds in a few weeks, but then life happens and the bad habits and the weight return. In this invaluable book, Judith Beck PhD offers the solution to break free from these common diet traps and keep the weight off for life. Judith Beck explains that when it comes to losing weight, it's not just about what we eat – it's also about how we think. To consistently eat differently, we must learn to think differently. Diets fail us because they don't offer effective strategies for overcoming the common traps – emotional eating, social pressure, dining out – that can derail us. Now, she and her daughter, Deborah Beck Busis, share the techniques they have successfully used with thousands of clients, revealing exactly how to overcome the thoughts and behaviours that have been holding you back. With The Diet Trap Solution, readers on any diet can learn to identify their specific diet traps, prepare for their personal triggers and create action plans to strengthen their 'resistance muscle' – making losing weight easy, sustainable and enjoyable.

Book The Diet Hack  Why 95  of Diets Fail and how You Can Succeed

Download or read book The Diet Hack Why 95 of Diets Fail and how You Can Succeed written by Tim Steele and published by Archangel Ink. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ditch Those Extra Pounds and Your Frustration- This is the Last and Only Diet Instruction Manual You'll Ever Need Have you struggled for years to lose weight without dropping even an inch from your waistline? Do you watch others succeed in their health and lifestyle goals and wonder how they do it, while fighting back tears in the dressing room? Do you feel lost at the gym and grocery store because you just have no idea how to approach dieting and exercise? If you said yes to any of these questions, it's time to lay down your fear and anxiety about dieting. Best-selling author Tim Steele is here with his new book, The Diet Hack: Why 95% of Diets Fail and How You Can Succeed. Based on hundreds of research citations and in-depth understanding of the most recent industry studies, Steele helps readers deal with even the most resistant weight problems in a language they can understand. Inside this book, you'll learn: Why you should diet and what you'll get out of it What the Western Diet is and how it affects you How exercise, sleep and stress play into weight gain and loss Medical conditions that cause obesity and what to do about them Medical conditions caused by obesity and why it's so important to avoid them How your genetics play a role The secret role of gut healthand why you need to take it more seriously now Various diet programs, which work and how you can update diets to make them work for you The only healthy way to approach diets, and why most people misunderstand the concept Smart strategies for shedding pounds and keeping them off How to cultivate communities that will help you stick to your diet and lifestyle goals How to reclaim your health through proper dieting without the rebound regain Not only will you absorb the information needed to make smarter choices in future, you'll also get step-by-step strategies to help you maintain a new lifestyle ... well, for life. Even better, this book cuts through the mystery of dieting and helps people make smarter decisions to lose weight without endless attempts at fad diets. The sad truth is, approximately 95 percent of all dieters fail to lose weight and keep it off. This book will help you change the odds in your favor. With a talent for making difficult scientific studies easy to understand, Steele backs up all of his advice with research and experiences-not to mention an engaging voice that will pull you through from the introduction to the final page. Host of The Potato Hack Chronicles and best-selling author of The Potato Hack: Weight Loss Simplified, Steele's books offer intentional, actionable formulas for reaching optimum health and shedding weight at any level of existing health. Don't wait. Buy this book NOW to learn the inside strategies of dieting, fight back against the falsehoods perpetrated by industrial giants and reclaim your health TODAY. Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!

Book The 9 Truths about Weight Loss

Download or read book The 9 Truths about Weight Loss written by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, Ph.D. and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget fad diets-here's a proven program based on good sense and good scienceHere are just a few of the bewildering pseudoscientific suggestions found in some of the bestselling diet books: abandon starch; eat all the fat you want, but count protein grams; eat dessert, but no fat; never mix proteins and carbohydrates; customize your diet based on your blood type; forget counting calories; seek emotional solutions to your weight issues. Even books that are based on sound scientific principles generally tell only half the story. The 9 Truths about Weight Loss is the long-awaited antidote to the scores of diet fads that have, in the long run, failed for so many frustrated people. In a program built on years of scientific research and practical experience, Daniel S. Kirschenbaum covers every aspect of losing weight and keeping it off. He shows how attacking weight loss is essentially an athletic challenge and reiterates the necessity of both sensible eating and tracking your food intake. He reminds us that it's natural for our bodies to fight weight loss, and as a psychologist, he shows us how to get through the inevitable emotional roadblocks. Going beyond try quick fixes, The 9 Truths about Weight Loss provides a positive, manageable program for the millions of Americans committed to controlling their weight once and for all.

Book How to Stick to a Diet

Download or read book How to Stick to a Diet written by Derek Doepker and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has modern psychology uncovered powerful but simple mind "hacks" that allow you to literally rewire your brain for unstoppable motivation? In "How To Stick To A Diet", you'll discover what the most recent psychological research has uncovered can be done to unlock the motivation you need to reach your health, fitness and weight loss goals, regardless of willpower. Inside you'll discover: • Why losing weight through dieting can backfire causing a person to end up more overweight down the road, and what is essential if you want to keep fat off FOREVER. • The truth about why "diets don't work" is both true AND false! (The truth may surprise you!) • How 4 core emotional wants (that dictate your behavior) can make it impossible to stick to a diet unless you start to use them the right way. • How changing one word you say can flip a switch in your brain to generate willpower on demand. • 3 powerful “mind hacks” that instantly changing your feelings towards any foods! With these “hacks” in your tool belt, you'll laugh in the face of the foods that used to tempt you before. • Why it's almost impossible for you to fail when you take the one simple approach most people don't even try! • Why diet tips for enhancing weight loss motivation without first explaining this *one* thing are almost useless. • How you can still eat all of your favorite treats without them screwing up your diet, weight loss efforts, or health. • Hands down the best, quickest, and safest way to lose weight while preventing metabolic shutdown ever invented! • How to instantly shut down the body's stress response so you'll never have to worry about being too stressed out (be one of the few that knows the trick!). • The real reason you crave sugar and snacks, and how a couple inexpensive items from your local grocery store will stop sugar and salt cravings dead in their tracks. (Never give into binge eating again when you know this!) • Why following typical advice on “goal setting” may actually make it nearly impossible to sustain your results, and what recent research has shown you must do when setting goals for long-term success. • What modern research has shown can actually alter your genetics, and what you must do to make sure your genes aren't keeping you unhealthy and out of shape. • Why people often feel so stressed out about dieting, and how you can free yourself of feeling overwhelmed when approaching diet. TIP: Discover this secret and apply it to other things, and your happiness will skyrocket in all areas of your life! • A little known way to get organic quality food at wholesale prices so you can eat the healthiest foods without breaking your budget. • How you can make days worth of healthy food in only 5 minutes of prep time. When you know this strategy, “not having time” will never stop your diet success. • Where to find the best deals on supplements, protein shakes, and health foods online so you can avoid wasting hundreds to thousands of dollars. • And much more! Dieting can mean giving up your favorite foods, spending hours in the kitchen preparing meals, not enjoying meals with friends, and paying a fortune on costly health foods. Factor in the stress of trying to change your dietary habits, and it's no wonder having to muster up the motivation to stay on a diet can feel downright impossible. But if sticking to a diet was impossible, then how can a person that ate fast food every single night, drank sugary soft drinks all day, and hated healthy foods transform into someone that has eaten a healthy diet everyday for 9 years straight? The answer may have something to do with a few little known secrets about human psychology that allow you to completely transform the wiring in your brain. Derek Doepker reveals the methods used to successfully get and stay motivated to eat healthy forever.

Book The Don t Go Hungry Diet

Download or read book The Don t Go Hungry Diet written by Amanda Sainsbury-Sallis and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scentifically based way to lose weight and keep it off forever. Whether you've tried all the diets but find you just keep putting the weight back on - plus extra - or simply want to lose weight and keep it off forever, this is the book for you, with real solutions based on real science. Like many women, Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis began dieting in her teens despite being a normal weight. Over the next few years she tried all kinds of diets and six years on her weight had ballooned; she was now obese. 'I dieted myself fat,' Dr Sainsbury-Salis says. 'I'd lose a kilo or two then just gain it all back, plus more.' She also fell prey to binge eating, pigging out on pastries in between her dieting attempts. When in despair she finally gave up dieting, she decided to start a career in medical research so that she could find an effective way to lose weight. Today she is a world leader in the field of weight loss. Through her research, she discovered that the key to successful dieting is to understand how your brain regulates your weight and work with it, rather than against it, by never going hungry. Staying satisfied is the key to beating the 'famine reaction', your body's way of protecting itself when you diet from what it perceives as a life-threatening food shortage. Once in tune with your body, it's easy to lose weight and keep it off. Amanda tested out her theories on herself, losing nearly 30 kilograms and keeping it off for more than nine years (and counting), then helped her husband to lose 20 kilograms. Now, in The Don't Go Hungry Diet, Dr Sainsbury-Salis explains the science behind her discoveries simply and effectively, then tells how you, too, can lose weight more effectively and with less effort than ever before. With chapters on how to recognise and deal with a famine reaction and other scientific breakthroughs as well as on nutrition and exercise, plus 50 delicious recipes, this is a scientifically based plan that is simple for anyone to follow -and that works.

Book Clearing Your Path to Permanent Weight Loss

Download or read book Clearing Your Path to Permanent Weight Loss written by Cookie Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you trying to lose weight?Are you tired of trying to lose weight?Before you start another diet, put yourself on 'pause' and take a deep breath. This book will help you with a crucial step that most people who want to lose weight overlook: figuring out what's gone wrong in your past efforts.Do you know exactly why you haven't been able to lose weight and keep it off? It all starts in your mind. And until you correct some basic errors in the way you think about weight loss, you may be doomed to keep repeating your mistakes, over and over again.In 30 short and sweet lessons, along with thought-provoking corresponding worksheets, you will finally learn how to lose weight on whatever program you choose.This book won't tell you what to eat, but instead will help you put together all the puzzle pieces that have held you back from your perpetual goal of real weight loss. You will learn key concepts from the coaching field, basic psychology and simplified, understandable brain science that will give you the answers to why you've failed before, and then give you some ammunition to successfully move forward.Weight loss is really not a mystery. But you need the right tools and the right mindset. Clearing Your Path to Permanent Weight Loss gives you exactly that. A look at where you've been, an understanding of why and how you created the extra weight you're carrying around, the common mistakes you've made, and the solutions.

Book Why Diets Fail  Because You re Addicted to Sugar

Download or read book Why Diets Fail Because You re Addicted to Sugar written by Nicole M. Avena, PhD and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revolutionary eating plan reveals definitive proof that sugar is addictive, and presents the first science-based program to cut out the sugar, stop the cravings that cause most diets to eventually fail, and lose weight--permanently. If you’re like most people, you’ve tried a few (or maybe many) different diets without success. The truth is, most diets work for a while, but there’s usually a point at which the dietary restrictions become too difficult to maintain. Why? Because whether you’re following a low-carb, paleo, gluten-free, or even an all-liquid green juice diet, the addictive nature of sugar causes cravings to take over and sabotage your diet-of-the-moment. In Why Diets Fail, Dr. Nicole M. Avena and John R. Talbott reveal definitive proof that sugar is addictive and present the first science-based program to stop the cravings and lose weight—permanently. A neuroscientist and food addiction expert, Dr. Avena has conducted groundbreaking research showing that sugar triggers the same responses in the brain as addictive drugs like cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol. And like those other substances, the more sugar you eat, the more you need to get the same pleasurable feelings. (No wonder your last diet didn’t stick.) Avena and Talbott’s eight-step plan walks you through the process of going sugar-free and surviving the make-or-break withdrawal period—those first few weeks when your body feels the absence of its favorite sweetener most acutely. An easy-to-use Sugar Equivalency Table developed by Talbott lists the amount of sugar in hundreds of common foods so you know precisely what to eat and what to avoid. And when it comes to what you can eat, you have a lot to choose from. In fact, you’ll probably eat more on this diet than you normally do—while continuing to lose weight. This science-based program is the diet to end all diets. It will help you break the yo-yo dieting cycle, end those maddening sugar cravings, and develop a new longing for the good food that will keep you fit, healthy, and happy.

Book Beat the Diet Trap

Download or read book Beat the Diet Trap written by Janet Matthews and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of fad diets and all of their empty promises? There so many weight loss books available encouraging you to try the latest dietary fad. There are books that offer fast weight loss, how to lose 7 lb in a week and even how to lose weight without dieting. With so many options to choose from it is very difficult for the majority of us to know which way to jump, and inevitably we end up in the diet trap. Have you read the latest on health, only to feel more confused? As a result of so much information out there on health and weight loss, we either do nothing out of frustration or we avidly read all the books available hoping to find the holy grail of weight loss, only to be left more confused by it all. The purpose of this book is not to give you yet another weight loss regime to confuse you even more, but rather to help you to understand the muddle you may currently be in and help you to make intelligent choices about the food you eat. Have you considered the following? •How did the obesity epidemic first begin? What caused us to put on weight in the first place? •What are the physiological reasons for weight gain? •Why it is so difficult to lose weight and then maintain it? •How to understand the myths that surround weight loss. Where did they come from and do they contain any truth? •How allergies can impact on weight gain and what to do about it •The impact the emotions can have on weight gain and your ability to lose weight and how you can successfully deal with this. •The truth about exercise and its effect on weight loss. Is more less or is less more? •Why being overweight predisposes you to degenerative diseases. •The latest research regarding the best weight loss methods and how to implement them. •Weight loss tips for successful weight loss and how to ensure you understand the reasons why YOU are overweight in the first place. It is a different reason for each of us. •Why being healthy will automatically help you to lose weight without needing to resort to a weight loss diet. Author Janet Matthews answers these questions and more, and by the end of this book, you will know the truth about the weight loss industry and how toBeat the Diet Trap by changing the habits of a lifetime. If you want to improve your weight loss motivation and your chances of successfully losing weight and keeping it off, then download this book and make informed choices about your future health.

Book Brain Powered Weight Loss

Download or read book Brain Powered Weight Loss written by Eliza Kingsford and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is not as much about what you put in your stomach; it's more about what's happening in the brain. In Brain-Powered Weight Loss, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food. Changing this relationship by changing the way you think about and behave around food is what it takes to permanently achieve weight-loss success. Kingsford’s 11-step first-of-its-kind program enlists dozens of mind-altering and behavior-changing exercises and techniques that shows you how to: • Identify and reverse the conscious and unconscious thinking errors and food triggers that lead to the behaviors that drive our food decisions. • Let go of the mindset of going on or off a diet in favor of a conscious quest to pursue a lifestyle of healthy eating and everyday activity--one that can last forever. • Successfully use what Kingsford calls "dealing skills" to outsmart high-risk situations, tame stressful times, and prevent an eating "slip" from leading to a setback or all-out binge. • Find out if you have what emerging research shows is an addiction to certain high-fat and sugar-added, processed foods that can be as powerful as addiction to cigarettes and narcotics. • Design a personal healthy eating program built on Kingsford's 10 Principles of Healthy Eating.

Book The 3 Day Solution Plan

Download or read book The 3 Day Solution Plan written by Laurel Mellin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solution to Dieting! Almost everyone who wants to lose weight makes a painful discovery: diets don’t work. After following the rules and wrestling with the temptations, nearly all dieters regain what they have lost–and then some. What’s worse, the anger and frustration of constant dieting just make us want to eat more! If only we could turn off the drive to overeat. But that’s impossible, right? Wrong! Based on the amazingly effective method developed by weight-loss expert Laurel Mellin, The 3-Day Solution Plan will give you a powerful, step-by-step plan to turn off the drive to overeat while shedding up to six pounds! A proven program for lasting weight loss without dieting, The Solution Method was developed by Mellin at the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine. Health magazine named it one of the 10 top medical advances of 2000. But this is the first time The Solution Method has been made accessible to everyone as a results-oriented jumpstart to the program–and it only takes three days. The life-changing potential of The Solution Method is that it directly addresses the feeling brain, the home of our most primitive urges, like eating. Other weight loss programs are based on knowledge and planning–activities of the thinking brain. The problem is that there is no significant relationship between the feeling brain and the thinking brain. Reason can’t make anyone stop wanting a cookie. But as Solution participants attest: this program works. Two- and six-year follow-up studies have shown The Solution to produce weight loss without dieting and unparalleled results in terms of keeping it off. In just three days you will get started with the method and • Lose up to six pounds without dieting • Learn how to turn off the drive to overeat • Follow the simple and healthy 1-2-3 Eating Plan • Find out how fantastic you can feel every day! With delicious recipes, complete menus, and suggestions for easy restaurant substitutions, The 3-Day Solution Plan is a complete road map that begins guiding you toward the ultimate destination: a thinner, more vibrant you!

Book The Weight of the Nation

Download or read book The Weight of the Nation written by John Hoffman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation. So how could two-thirds of us fail to measure up when it comes to eating right and exercising? HBO and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences have joined together to bring you the nation's foremost experts and definitive research on weight and weight loss. The Weight of the Nation explains how we got to this unhealthy place and how we can get to a healthy weight by overcoming the forces that drive us to eat too much and move too little. Three years in the making, The Weight of the Nation answers crucial questions like: --Is there such a thing as the right diet? --Am I doomed to yo-yo for the rest of my life? --How does stress affect my weight? --Is my slow metabolism making me fat? --How does carrying too much weight affect my health? --Why do I eat junk food even though I know it's unhealthy? --Is exercise enough to help most people maintain an ideal weight? --How can I keep weight off forever? Based on the rich research behind HBO's documentary series, The Weight of the Nation is the only book that tells it like it is: losing weight is hard, keeping it off is even harder, and there's no quick fix. Weight loss takes a lot of work and a lifetime commitment, but thousands have done it and this book will show you how.