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Stop dieting before it kills you [Paperback]

William E Straw (Author), William E. Straw (Author)
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Book Description

1997
Before you waste your money on another diet program, you should know the facts. The probability is high that your diet will fail. Although most diets and diet centers can help you lose weight, you will have less than one chance in 20 to keeping the weight off! The discouraging fact is that most forms of cancer have a higher rate of cure than obesity.

Most overweight people try diet after diet and spend countless amounts of money on exercise programs and appetite suppressants. Surveys have shown that in the United States, 20% of men and 40% of women are dieting at any given time.

Dieting can easily become an addiction. Just as the drug addict craves fix after fix, the addicted dieter is driven from the temporary success of one diet in the vain attempt to achieve self-satisfaction. By breaking this diet addiction and embracing a life style approach to eating and health, obese people can give themselves hope for long term weight loss and good health.

By avoiding every new diet that comes along and every new program that promises, but can't deliver, success, overweight people may save themselves not only the financial costs of these programs, but also the psychological costs of repeated failure. A far better approach than continuous dieting would be to focus on fitness and health rather than wasting time and money on useless diet programs. This is our approach. Try it!


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About the Author

William E. Straw, M.D. is a Family Physician who has been in practice for 18 years in association with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, California. He serves on the clinical faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine. His interest in the treatment of obesity began during his residency training program in Riverside, California.

Throughout his years of practice he has assisted his overweight patients in a variety of traditional weight loss programs. Over the years he has observed that dieting produces more harm than good and that diet programs have been almost universally unsuccessful. This realization has lead to the development of a different attitude toward obesity and a different approach to the treatment of weight problems.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 60 pages
  • Publisher: PRC Pub (1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0944183212
  • ISBN-13: 978-0944183212
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,017,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Source For Information- Check It Out!, August 19, 2004
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Bonnie K. (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stop dieting before it kills you (Paperback)
This book is very well written and provided me with a wealth of knowledge on issues relevant to me. As someone who frequently diets, the information in this book made me more aware of my own acions, and how I can better manage the journey toward achieving my ideal weight.

I can appreciate how the author provides realistic suggestions toward weight loss, instead of advice like that I've gotten from other books which, although it may sound good in theory, would be difficult to put into practice.

Besides providing lots of information, I found that this book was also easy to follow and kept me interested. So far, I've shared my copy with two of my girlfriends, who'v also appreciated it as much as I did!
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