Roizen, Michael F.

You, on a diet : the owner's manual to waist management / Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz ; with Ted Spiker, Lisa Oz, and Craig Wynett ; illustrations by Gary Hallgren. - New York : Free Press, c2006. - xiii, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Contents

part. 1. What a waist!
Introduction: YOU: On a Diet
Work smarter, not harder

Chapter 1. The ideal body : what your body is supposed to look like

part. 2. The biology of fat.
Chapter 2. Can't get no satisfaction : the science of appetite
Chapter 3. Eater's digest : how food travels through your body
Chapter 4. Gut check : the dangerous battles of inflammation in your belly
Chapter 5. Taking a fat chance : how fat ruins your health
Chapter 6. Metabolic motors : your body's hormonal fat burners
Chapter 7. Make the move : how you can burn fat faster

part. 3. The science of the mind.
Chapter 8. The chemistry of emotions : the connections between feelings and food
Chapter 9. Shame on who? : The psychology of the failed diet


part. 4. The YOU diet and activity plan.
Chapter 10. Make a YOU-turn
How to change what you thought you knew about dieting, and change your life for good
Chapter 11. The YOU activity plan
Physical strategies for waist management
Chapter 12. The YOU diet : the waist-management eating plan


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Low-fat diet.
Low-fat diet--Recipes.
Weight loss.

WB 400 R741y 2006