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Dieting is dead. Lets focus on health instead.
Short-term, restrictive diets just dont work as long-term weight loss solutions. As soon as your diet proves unsustainable within your everyday life, you regain the weight youve lost while dieting, negatively impacting your biological and psychological systems as well. Sound familiar?
In Fighting Fat: Break the Dieting Cycle and Get Healthy for Life!, wellness expert and best-selling author Dr. Steven Lamm reveals why its more important to gain health than to simply lose pounds. With Dr. Lamms individualized approach to weight reduction thats based on your unique lifestyle, biology, and risk factors, you can start to improve your overall well-being while greatly reducing your risk of countless health complications.
Groundbreaking advancements in the rapidly evolving science behind weight loss have generated many new options for people who struggle to manage their weight. From understanding the affects of prescription and over-the-counter medications to making decisions about bariatric surgery, Fighting Fat delivers Dr. Lamms authoritative insights and analysis of the most current and comprehensive information available.
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Unlike some diet and fitness authors, Lamm doesnt claim that his remedy is all that someone would need for long-term weight loss. Instead, he focuses on health in a way thats designed to give readers insight into potential causes of their weight issuesgenetics, prescriptions, habitsand shifts them toward a more educated track. With worksheets for notes, information on surgery, and numerous references for further research, Fighting Fat arms a reader with an arsenal of helpful tips and insights. Foreword Reviews
About the Author
Steven Lamm, MD, is a practicing internist, faculty member at New York University School of Medicine, and the Director of Mens Health for NYU Medical Center. He is well-known as the house doctor on ABC-TVs
The View, regularly offering his analysis and commentary on television and radio programs, including
Today, Oprah, Nightline, Dateline, and
Fox News. Dr. Lamm has published extensively on a variety of medical topics. His best-selling books include
Thinner At Last (1997),
No Guts, No Glory (2012), and
The Hardness Factor (2007).
Dr. Lamm is the author of Spry Publishings Fighting Fat and Redefining Prostate Cancer.