Conquering Obesity

Features fun, kid-friendly activities to get them moving A positive and safe plan for lifetime weight management Concerned about your child's weight? This practical guide provides effective strategies for improving nutrition, increasing physical activity, and dealing with weight issues at home and in the classroom. You'll see how to change your family's lifestyle, help your child make healthier choices (and stick to them!), and foster a lifetime commitment to health and fitness. Discover how to * Introduce good eating habits * Keep your family fit and active * Prepare healthier meals * Maintain your child's weight loss * Find outside professional support * Fix over 30 tasty recipes

For men and women who are obese, the weight loss journey is about much more than shedding a few pounds. Obesity can lead to serious health risks and problems — both physical and psychological — and the struggle to cope can be a frustrating, life-long endeavour. It doesn’t have to be this way. InConquering Obesity, medical nutrition specialist Dr. Lance Levy offers a highly individual approach for dealing with weight management that recognizes obesity as a symptom of a larger, often undiagnosed, problem. Based on more than fifteen years of experience and research, Levy contends that an astonishing 90 per cent of people with weight issues have one or more of the following underlying medical conditions: mood disorders chronic tiredness chronic pain chronic gastrointestinal difficulties disorders of impulse regulation (binge eating disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and night-time eating syndrome) In these cases, when the underlying conditions are treated, long-term weight loss frequently occurs without any special diets. This updated edition includes the latest information on the links between obesity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the effectiveness of cognitive and psychodynamic therapies, nighttime eating syndrome, and the non-negotiable time commitment needed to work on diet and lifestyle changes. Augmented with extensive case studies and data from Levy’s own successful practice,Conquering Obesity offers hope to anyone fighting the battle of weight management.

Have you been struggling with obesity? Have you reached a point where you MUST lose weight now? Dr. Jean-Ronel Corbier discusses weight loss and explains how he was able to lose 100 pounds going from fat to fit in only 7 months. This captivating and easy to read book discusses obesity and weight loss not only from a professional perspective but also from an insider's viewpoint. Dr. Corbier shares information regarding his personal struggles and victory in the battle over obesity. In addition: See how obesity affects both children and adults. Discover how genes, hormones and stress affect your weight. Find out why losing weight is not optional. Learn how the mind and various behavioral techniques can be used to conquer obesity. Get information on the pros and cons of drugs and surgery for obesity. Be taught how you can lose weight naturally, safely and permanently. Drs. Jean-Ronel and Michelle Corbier are Christian physicians, pediatric neurologist and pediatrician respectively who have developed a model called the RESTORATION model. It was initially developed to address complex problems seen in their neurological patients. This comprehensive model of wellness offers hope to all those afflicted by illness.

For men and women who are obese, the weight loss journey is about much more than shedding a few pounds. Obesity can lead to serious health risks and problems -- both physical and psychological -- and the struggle to cope can be a frustrating, life-long endeavour. It doesn't have to be this way. In Conquering Obesity, medical nutrition specialist Dr Lance Levy offers a highly individual approach for dealing with weight management that recognises obesity as a symptom of a larger, often undiagnosed, problem. This updated edition includes the latest information on the links between obesity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the effectiveness of cognitive and psychodynamic therapies, night-time eating syndrome, and the non-negotiable time commitment needed to work on diet and lifestyle changes. Augmented with extensive case studies and data from Levy's own successful practice, this book offers hope to anyone fighting the battle of weight management.

The Obesity Fix is a ground-breaking book about identifying the root causes of the obesity epidemic and providing long-term solutions to it. It draws information from decades of research and thousands of scientific studies, articles and meta-analyses. Education about the cause of obesity and weight gain is a critical part to achieving optimal body composition and metabolic health. Instead of prescribing any particular diet or discarding others, The Obesity Fix seeks to teach you how to become the master of your body and fat loss.

This in-depth guide examines the obesity pandemic, examining both its complex causes and wide-ranging effects. This book offers a comprehensive look into the science of obesity, covering everything from diagnosing the illness to investigating the role of hormones and sugar. It also provides helpful guidance on behavior changes, dietary planning, and nutritional techniques for sustained weight loss. The knowledge of lipids that promote muscle growth and fat loss will inspire readers to resist temptations. Essential workout instructions, lifestyle modifications, and methods to overcome typical obstacles to weight loss are all included in this book. It gives readers the means to maintain their accomplishments and get past the difficulties posed by an obese diet with a compilation of recipes and meal ideas. The journey is concluded with an epilogue that equips readers to sustain their health improvements. For anyone trying to learn about obesity and take charge of their health, this book is a priceless tool. It dispels myths and offers data-supported explanations of how some foods-especially carbohydrates and fats-have different effects on weight control. The book's later portions are action-focused and provide readers with a road map for changing their lives. Beyond diet and exercise, it addresses the psychological underpinnings of cravings and how to restructure an individual's relationship with food. Along with emphasizing the value of long-term changes, the program also stresses that achieving health is a marathon rather than a sprint. With a message of empowerment, the book urges readers to take control of their health and rewrite their destiny. This book serves as a guidebook as well as a support system, offering information, inspiration, and encouragement at every turn on the path to Well-Being. This thorough reference on obesity provides a clear understanding of the issue and gives doable solutions for those who are grappling with it or just want to learn more about it.

We want to be slim more than anything else in the world, so why do we have an obesity epidemic? If the solution is as simple as ‘eat less and do more’, why are 90% of today’s children facing a fat future? What if the current diet advice is not right? What if trying to eat less is making us fatter? What if everything we thought we knew about dieting is wrong? This is, in fact, the case. This book will de-bunk every diet myth there is and change the course of The Obesity Epidemic. This is going to be a ground breaking journey, shattering every preconception about dieting and turning current advice upside down. Did you know that we did a U-Turn in our diet advice thirty years ago? Obesity has increased ten fold since – coincidence or cause? Discover why we changed our advice and what is stopping us changing it back; discover the involvement of the food industry in our weight loss advice; discover how long we have known that eating less and doing more can never work and discover what will work instead. There is a way to lose weight and keep it off, but the first thing you must do is to throw away everything you think you know about dieting. Because everything you think you know is actually wrong. The diet advice we are being given, far from being the cure of the obesity epidemic, is, in fact, the cause.