Preface.Acknowledgments.Introduction: The Truth will set you free.Chapter 1. Is Sustainable Weight Loss Possible?Chapter 2. Do Those Extra Few Pounds Really Matter?Chapter 3. Is Willpower the Key to Weight Loss?Chapter 4. Should I Focus Mostly on Exercise?Chapter 5. What Counts the Most-Fats, Carbs, or Calories?Chapter 6. Do my Genes or Metabolism Keep me from Achieving Sustainable Weight Loss?Chapter 7. Is my Metabolism Affected by What, How, and When I Eat?Chapter 8. Does How I Lose weight Really Matter?Chapter 9. Is There One Right Approach to Weight Loss?Chapter 10. Is my Weight Problem Just About Me?Conclusion: Your Personal Triumph.Afterword.Sources.Index.
JAMES M. RIPPE, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He is the founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, one of the largest nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle medicine research organizations in the United States. KAREN MILLER-KOVACH is Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. Weight Watchers meetings provide the coaching and tools to help people make positive changes for lasting weight loss.
" ... this title examines common misconceptions that can sabotage a weight-loss program. Going into greater scientific detail than Neoporent and Schlosberg in explaining diet myths, Rippe (medicine, Tufts Univ. Sch. Of Medicine) also incorporates many of the Weight Watchers(r) principles into his comments. (from the Diet/Fitness roundup by Susan Hagloch) ("Library Journal, January 15, 2005)
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