This book attempts to validate the famous line We have met the enemy, and he is us. When I retired, I decided to lose fifty pounds in excess weight. I began exercising and watching what I ate. After two months and ten pounds less, I read Dr. Kesslers book, The End of Overeating. After applying his concepts to my weight loss efforts, I lost another fifteen pounds in two months without any exercise! I was surprised and amazed! I felt that if I could build a template that any individual could follow to achieve the immediate results that I did, I could change the downward spiral in health for many. The purpose of this book is to shift our paradigm from losing weight to stopping and reversing weight gain.

The pampered prince Siddhartha tried dieting and didn't like it anymore than you do. When he became the Buddha, he found the "middle way" between overindulgence and abstinence. Modern science confirms what Buddha knew all along: it's not what you eat that's important, but when you eat. Sure, he lived before the age of doughnuts and French fried, but his teachings provide a sane, mindful approach to achieving optimum health.

A ketogenic diet isn't something new that has been recently formulated; people have been on a ketogenic diet for virtually three million years in which our brains were nurtured and evolved. Now the human brain is not only shrinking, but brain atrophy is the norm as we age and get plagued with diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. People mistakenly think that they need to eat less and exercise more to create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight. This is not how diet and exercise helps with weight loss. A well-formulated keto-adapted diet along with proper exercise builds muscle and muscle builds mitochondria. It is in the mitochondria where fat is oxidized so you can keep your cells and liver insulin sensitized. Weight loss and health is about healthy mitochondria and about controlling hormones and specifically insulin. This is not a diet, it is a lifestyle. By eating this way, you will begin to heal your cells and will keep evolving your body into the happy and healthy person you want to be. This book is filled with the most impeccable nutrition information to fuel your cells. Maria's passion goes beyond explaining the 'why', she is a master in the kitchen and loves food. Her keto-adapted recipes at the end of the book tie all the nutrition together so you can become keto-adapted faster than ever.

Losing weight can be accomplished by learning to use better nutritional choices in your diet and by learning how to exercise more effectively and efficiently. This book explains J. J. Virgin's program and includes recipes and examples of exercises you can use to accomplish your weight loss goals.

The mind is a powerful tool in holding the power to the way we think, feel and act. Mind power and Healthy Eating is a book about simple yet very powerful mind power techniques that are focused on promoting overall health whilst helping you to eat healthy, lose weight, maintain weight and keep active. More and more people are giving up on diets than ever before because they have come to a conscious conclusion that diets don't work. In this book you will learn that when you access the power of the mind, you access well-being.

For the first time ever, science and nutrition have teamed up to create the most technologically advanced and clinically proven method to lose weight and keep it off. JJ Virgin Ph.D., has written the most complete and conclusive guide to nutrition, health, and fitness to date. This book will explain how different foods and activities impact our bodies with over 200+ pages packed with nutritional tips, recipes, exercises, inspiration and a whole lot more! Previously this book was only available to doctors, health care professionals, celebrities, and CEOs, but for the first time ever it is available to the public.

THE BEST DIET BOOK EVER: The Zen of Losing Weight, is a ground-breaking book that offers a fresh new perspective on the weight-loss journey: the freedom to enjoy positive choices rather than the pain and sacrifice of strict diets. Easy to read and simple to apply, the tools in this book will empower you to fulfill the goals of the best diet program there is-your own. Poor decisions are what make you gain weight and good choices are what enable you to lose weight. Your brain will respond to the changes you make, and your body will, too. Instead of recipes and requirements, you'll receive time-tested techniques for being more present and mindful while cultivating good eating and exercise habits. THE BEST DIET BOOK EVER provides great information and practical strategies that will help you become the lighter, slimmer you that you long to be.

When her brother dies of AIDS and her husband dies of cancer in the same year, Rosemary is left on her own with two young daughters and antsy addiction demons dancing in her head. This is the nucleus of The Art of Losing It a young mother jerking from emergency to emergency as the men in her life drop dead around her; a high-functioning radio show host waging war with her addictions while trying to raise her two little girls who just lost their daddy; and finally, a stint in rehab and sobriety that ushers in a fresh brand of chaos instead of the tranquility her family so desperately needs. Heartrending but ultimately hopeful, The Art of Losing It is the story of a struggling mother who finds her way—slowly, painfully—from one side of grief and addiction to the other.

In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative critique of the weight-loss industry. Kolata's account of four determined dieters' progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet to a conventional low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of politics and power. Rethinking Thin asks whether words like willpower are really applicable when it comes to eating and body weight. It dramatizes what it feels like to spend a lifetime struggling with one's weight and fantasizing about finally, at long last, getting thin. It tells the little-known story of the science of obesity and the history of diets and dieting—scientific and social phenomena that made some people rich and thin and left others fat and miserable. And it offers commonsense answers to questions about weight, eating habits, and obesity—giving us a better understanding of the weight that is right for our bodies.

Physicians' biggest frustration is that the Fitness and Weight-loss Industry's main function is to SELL empty promises and false hope to the average consumer. The magic words, “Fast, Easy, and Effortless,” often makes otherwise intelligent people act totally stupid. Making matters worse, many of today's personal trainers and gyms are more focused on gimmicks — things they think you'll buy — than on sound exercise and weight-loss principles. In the USA, a Registered Dietitian is the gold standard for nutritional expertise. They are essentially “Diet Doctors." Their consensus is that Weight Loss is, and always will be, an energy equation: Calories-in vs. Calories-out. Any reasonably healthy diet that causes a daily calorie deficit will cause you to lose weight — it's that simple. People should stop overthinking Carbs, Protein, Fat, and Macro-Nutrient Ratios. Supplement companies and diet-book authors use them to over-complicate eating, to create an unrealistic benefit of each. Just about every TV infomercial promoting weight loss, six-pack abs, or a beautiful body, will ALWAYS have a disclaimer — so tiny you cannot read it — at the bottom of the TV screen: “These Results Are Not Typical,” or, “When Combined with Healthy Eating and Exercise.” The translation is that the product being advertised does not work as advertised. This informative book not only exposes the frauds, it is filled with mostly one-page, easy-to-understand explanations of the things people ask about, or, get wrong most often. Arthur Apolinario, MD, MPH, FAAFP has gone through the research for you to offer the simplest explanations of what you need to do to get healthy.