You on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz

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AMERICA'S MOST TRUSTED DOCTOR TEAM CRACKS THE CODE ON WAIST MANAGEMENT

For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting. Now Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz translate this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist, by giving you the best weapon against fat: Knowledge. Through their signature entertaining style, Drs Roizen and Oz teach you about your body — how and why it stores calories, burns fat, and reacts to the foods you test your body with. Ultimately, they give you the Plan and formulas that will help you lose up to two inches from your waist in two weeks on your way to your ideal size.

By following the YOU diet and YOU activity plan, you will...

• Challenge your beliefs about diets

• Learn to rule the elegant systems controlling your body fat

• Never feel hungry

• Never yo-yo again

• Feel better, look better, and live healthier

Equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action, YOU: On a Diet will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.

Publishers Weekly

Back for another highly entertaining round of Biology 101, the team behind YOU: The Owner's Manual applies its signature wit and wisdom to food metabolism and nutrition. According to Roizen and Oz, waist measurement, not weight, is the most important factor in mortality related to obesity, and understanding the relationship between chemicals and hormones influencing hunger and those signaling satiety is the key to ending yo-yo dieting. Most diets fail, Roizen and Oz conclude, because body chemistry overrules the best plans and intentions. To restore the body's natural ability to balance hunger and satiety and offset the effects of stress on food choices, they list foods and supplements that fight fat, decrease appetite and combat inflammation that causes disease. Roizen and Oz pack in a lot of material-quizzes, "factoids" and "myth busters" along with diet and exercise plans, recipes and a two-week "rebooting" program-in bite-sized portions, giving readers a chance to absorb and apply what they learn. For those considering medical intervention, they discuss current options for drugs and surgery. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

In this sequel to their best-selling You: The Owner's Manual, Roizen and Oz draw on current research trends in stressing healthy dietary and exercise choices that can lead to sustained loss of dangerous abdominal fat. In Part 1, readers encounter a quiz and personalized body ideal parameters, then rather complex overviews of relevant organs (e.g., the intestines), chemical messengers (e.g., hormones), and organ/chemical interrelations. The book's second, more approachable half translates the above material into pragmatic guidelines for specific exercise and eating plans and contains sound advice on personal dieting-aid decisions (e.g., weight control drugs, surgery). A glossary (for terms like macrophages and norepinephrine) and resource list (cataloging other diet plans, professional/medical organizations, informative web sites) are badly needed. Though this book dispels many of the same myths as Jane Kirby's Dieting for Dummies and Weight Watchers Weight Loss That Lasts, it is less comprehensive. Still, it is a fascinating, informative read recommended for public and consumer health libraries for its unique biomedical basis, adaptability to any lifelong plan, and best-seller potential. (Index and illustrations not seen.) Janice Flahiff, Univ. of Toledo, Lib. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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