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    • “Craig has helped an incredible number of people around the world get started on a path to living better. The insightful information in this book provides valuable tools to anyone interested in improving their health.” — Cindy Crawford, Model
    “Craig’s message is a testament to taking responsibility for your health and well-being.” — Kitty Gurkin Rosati, author of “The Rice Diet Solution”
    “A compelling and eye-opening look at America’s fitness and diet industries from a veteran insider.” — Henry S. Lodge, M.D., author of “Younger Next Year
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    Dieting Resources


    DIET, WEIGHT-LOSS AND PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT

    Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth
    John Robbins
    ISBN: 0915811812
    Review: Vegetarian Times Magazine — “One of the most profound studies ever written of how our eating habits affect our lives, and indeed all of life on our planet.”

    Fad Diets: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
    Icon Health Publications
    ISBN: 0597839034
    Book Description: This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to fad diets. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations.

    Health.com
    www.health.com
    Compares most of the popular diets on the market.

    Just the Weigh You Are: How to Be Fit and Healthy, Whatever Your Size
    Linda Konner and Steven Jonas
    ISBN: 0395935237
    Amazon Review: Steven Jonas, M.D., and fitness journalist Linda Konner assert that you can get fit and healthy whatever your size. Just the Weigh You Are affirms that whether or not you are genetically able to get slim, you can get healthy and feel good about your body.

    The Rice Diet Solution
    Kitty Gurkin Rosati, M.S., R.D., L.D.N. and Robert Rosati, M.D.
    ISBN: 0425214664
    Book Description: The New York Times bestseller. Before Atkins, before the low-carb craze, before counting calories, there was the Rice Diet Program. Founded by a pioneering Duke University physician in 1939, the Rice Diet Program has been helping dieters lose weight quickly, successfully, and permanently. Now, this world-renowned, medically approved weight-loss method can help everyone across the world — and not just those who travel to Durham, North Carolina.

    Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You’re 80 and Beyond
    Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry S. Lodge
    ISBN: 0761134239
    Description: Highly recommended for anyone interested in improving with age. Written by Dr. Lodge and his patient Chris Crowley, the authors base their plan on the idea that instead of looking forward to decades of pain as the body slowly deteriorates, it’s possible to live as if you were 50, maybe even younger, for the rest of your life.

    Younger Next Year for Women
    Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry S. Lodge
    ISBN: 0761140735
    Description: Same as the above but for women who want to improve their health now and beyond menopause.

     

    ARTICLES AND LINKS

    “Going with the (Whole) Grain”
    Article from the Harvard School of Public Health

    “Carbohydrates in Nutrition”
    Ron Kennedy, M.D.

    “Change the Way You Eat”
    Susan Bernstein

    “Fad Diets Have Limited Success, Study Shows”
    Independent Online (January 2005)

    “Fad Diets: What You Need to Know”
    www.familydoctor.org

    “Fats and Cholesterol – The Good, the Bad, and the Healthy Diet”
    Article from the Harvard School of Public Health

    “Hidden Sources of Free Glutamic Acid (MSG)”
    An article about MSG in and MSG-labeling on food. Web site also provides other information about food labels and how to decipher the various food-labeling loopholes employed by food manufacturers.

    “Portion Control Induces Greatest Weight Loss Suma Study Finds”
    Medical News Today (November 30, 2006)

    “Protein: Moving Closer to Center Stage”
    Article from the Harvard School of Public Health

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