"This new diet allows users to eat whatever they like five days a week and then fast (consuming 500-600 calories/day) for two nonconsecutive days"--

"68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss...

The best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek outlines a program for healthy living that draws on 15 years of research and interviews with leading doctors and health-care experts to offer insight into genetic factors, nutrition requirements and fitness practices.

A guide to permanent weight loss introduces the five phases of learning how to "eat thin," offering different food plans based on five calorie levels to suit individual needs, as well as a slow, medium, or fast weight-loss progression.

"With EAT, Dr. Ian Smith has created a diet book in the flexible spirit of Mireille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat or Michael Pollan's The Food Rules: it doesn't dictate quantities, portion sizes or verboten foods. Instead, it intelligently and persuasively lays out the ten simple rules anyone can internalize and follow in any situation for stress-free weight loss and lifetime maintenance. Dr. Ian's rules are straight-forward and simple: once...

"Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels offers a no-nonsense, insider's plan to stop battling your weight and slim down for life.

"A comprehensive, biblically sound, effective (and delicious) way to eat for health and weight loss." -- Back cover

Investigative journalist Barry Estabrook was often on the receiving end of his doctor's scowl. Realizing he had two options--take more medication or lose weight--Estabrook chose the latter, but was paralyzed by the options. Which diet would keep the weight off? What program could he maintain over time? What diet works best--or even at all?Over the course of three years, Estabrook tried the regimens behind the most popular diets of the past forty years--from...

The author of Body love returns with custom 21-day eating plans tailored to four different types of women: "The Girl on the Go" for the woman who wants to eat healthy while managing a hectic schedule, "The Domestic Goddess" for the woman who loves to spend time in the kitchen, "The Plant-Based Devotee" for the woman who avoids animal products, and "The Red-Carpet Ready" for the woman who wants to look and feel her best for an upcoming special event....