Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for Everybody

Mayo Clinic on Healthy Weight is divided into three parts: "Getting Motivated," "How to Lose Weight," and "When You Need More Help," including medications and surgery. The information is highly individualized, encouraging you to identify your unique challenges, eliminate your overeating triggers, and try new foods. The authors set the record straight about low-carb diets ("people do not gain weight on high-carbohydrate diets unless they are eating excess calories") and low-fat diets ("low-fat does not necessarily mean low-calorie"). They prompt you instead to use the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid to eat moderate portions of a varied, nutritious diet, emphasizing lower-calorie foods that make you feel full because they contain fiber and/or water.

Mayo Clinic on Healthy Weight has plenty of extras that make the book interesting and instructive: how to read a food label; recipe ingredient substitutions; eight luscious-looking, illustrated recipes; the number of calories burned during various exercises; and tricks for changing bad habits.

The Mayo Clinic is one of the country's most prestigious medical institutions, with more than 2,000 physicians and scientists in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Scottsdale, Arizona. This book doesn't offer shortcuts or fad diets--just the truth about weight loss, as the experts understand it. --Joan Price

Product Description
For more than 30 years various versions of the so-called "Mayo Clinic Diet" have surfaced in many forms and places, promising to peel off pounds magically. These diets did not originate at Mayo Clinic.

Now, for the first time, Mayo Clinic offers a safe and effective program to help you achieve and maintain the weight that is right for you.

The book emphasizes a lifestyle approach that combines a healthy diet along with exercise to result in a 1- to 2- pound loss each week that is considered safe and effective. The goal is to achieve long-term changes in your food selections and exercise habits that you can maintain for life.

This new book from nutrition experts at Mayo Clinic includes a step-by-step 12-week program to get you started on achieving your healthy weight. The program applies the principles of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid to help you make better decisions about what to eat and find ways to add enjoyable exercise to your daily life. Rather than focusing on fat or carbohydrates, Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for Everybody emphasizes the three factors that scientific data link to weight and health--calorie content, a healthy variety of foods and physical activity.