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You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

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For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.

Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-theskin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.


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Bio of Michael Roizen

Michael F. Roizen, M.D., is a professor of anesthesiology and internal medicine at Case Western Reserve Medical School and chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic.

Bio of Mehmet Oz

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is professor and vice chairman of surgery, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University. Dr. Oz is also medical director of the Integrated Medical Center and director of the Heart Institute, New York Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center.

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Imprint

Free Press

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8.10 MB

Number of Pages

432

eBook ISBN

9780743298964

Excerpt from: You: On a Diet by Michael Roizen

The most common question heard among overweight people isn't "Can I have more sour cream?" It's "Why can't I lose weight?" While you may think you know the answer (severe pancake addiction), the real reason is biological: We're actually hardwired to store some fat.

Our bodies have more systems that allow us to gain weight than to lose it. Historically, as we'll see in a moment, that served us well. Today, though, we've poisoned the systems that help us lose weight and empowered the ones that allow us to gain it--botching up our anatomy and turning our bodies into fat-storing machines. One of your goals will be to reprogram your body so that your internal systems can work the way they did when the greatest enemy we faced was a charging wildebeest, not a cheese-drowned pork roll.

Our ancestors survived by gaining and storing weight to survive periodic famines. That has left our bodies prone to storing fat and gaining weight, tendencies that willpower alone can rarely overcome. To see how our bodies have morphed from rock-hard to sponge-soft, let's look inside the bodies of early man and woman. They looked like stereotypical super-heroes: strong, lean, muscular, able to jump snorting mammals in a single bound.

As we evolved, we created systems and behaviors to survive when droughts and poor eyesight made picking and hunting less than successful. We learned to thrive, and we learned to eat. In early times, our diets consisted of fruits, nuts, vegetables, tubers, and wild meat--foods that were, for the most part, low in calories. That's not to say our ancestors didn't enjoy their foods. They consumed their sugars through fruit, and they even splurged when they came across the Paleolithic Cinnabon--a honeycomb. The difference between their splurges and ours? They came across the sweet treats only rarely; it's not as if they popped in for a 900-calorie sugar bomb every time they went shopping for a new buffalo hide. Add that to the fact that their definition of "searching for food" included walking, stalking, and chasing, not sliding the milk carton out of the way to find the pudding pack