Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success

Aiming to instill healthy perspectives for lifelong weight control, this book focuses on strategies that are designed to be modified and rotated throughout life to promote motivation, liveliness, and curiosity—key elements of not only losing weight but maintaining a healthy one. Each chapter is backed by the latest scientific evidence, presented in a way that is clear and understandable to readers. Emerging successful strategies are highlighted, and myths such as those developed by product and diet advertising campaigns are debunked.

Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success presents a general, science-backed plan for long-term weight management. The author explains the physical and psychological factors of weight control—why our fat cells sometimes go rogue and what habits and other factors we can control to change that. She addresses coping with the mental challenges that accompany weight loss and control and additionally shares illustrative stories from her weight loss patients as well as from her own experience.

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Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success

Aiming to instill healthy perspectives for lifelong weight control, this book focuses on strategies that are designed to be modified and rotated throughout life to promote motivation, liveliness, and curiosity—key elements of not only losing weight but maintaining a healthy one. Each chapter is backed by the latest scientific evidence, presented in a way that is clear and understandable to readers. Emerging successful strategies are highlighted, and myths such as those developed by product and diet advertising campaigns are debunked.

Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success presents a general, science-backed plan for long-term weight management. The author explains the physical and psychological factors of weight control—why our fat cells sometimes go rogue and what habits and other factors we can control to change that. She addresses coping with the mental challenges that accompany weight loss and control and additionally shares illustrative stories from her weight loss patients as well as from her own experience.

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Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success

Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success

by Deborah C. Saltman M.D., PH.D
Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success

Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success

by Deborah C. Saltman M.D., PH.D

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Aiming to instill healthy perspectives for lifelong weight control, this book focuses on strategies that are designed to be modified and rotated throughout life to promote motivation, liveliness, and curiosity—key elements of not only losing weight but maintaining a healthy one. Each chapter is backed by the latest scientific evidence, presented in a way that is clear and understandable to readers. Emerging successful strategies are highlighted, and myths such as those developed by product and diet advertising campaigns are debunked.

Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success presents a general, science-backed plan for long-term weight management. The author explains the physical and psychological factors of weight control—why our fat cells sometimes go rogue and what habits and other factors we can control to change that. She addresses coping with the mental challenges that accompany weight loss and control and additionally shares illustrative stories from her weight loss patients as well as from her own experience.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440857218
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/02/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 174
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Deborah C. Saltman, PhD, holds dual board certification in Family Medicine and Public Health and is a clinical physician, leadership facilitator, and honorary professor.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 How and Why We Get Fat 1

Chapter 2 We Really Are What We Eat 23

Chapter 3 The Ins and Outs of Our Bodies 51

Chapter 4 Turning Our Heavy Minds into Light Ones 65

Chapter 5 Disruptive Movement 79

Chapter 6 Customizing Our Approach 91

Chapter 7 Distortion and Disruption 101

Chapter 8 Binge Eating: A Warning about the Destructive Weight Disruption 107

Chapter 9 Learning to Live without Obesity 113

Chapter 10 Medical and Surgical Treatments 123

Appendix: Finding a Weight Control Clinician 149

Annotated Bibliography 157

Index 165

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