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• A provocative expose of the dieting industry from one of the nation’s leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss that offers proven strategies for sustainable weight loss. From her office in the University of Minnesota’s Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not work they often result in weight gain. Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food–the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive. In Secrets From the Eating Lab, Mann challenges assumptions–including those that make up the very foundation of the weight loss industry–about how diets work and why they fail. The result of more than two decades of research, it offers cutting-edge science and exciting new insights into the American obesity epidemic and our relationship with eating and food. Secrets From the Eating Lab also gives readers the practical tools they need to actually lose weight and get healthy. Mann argues that the idea of willpower is a myth–we shouldn’t waste time and money trying to combat our natural tendencies. Instead, she offers 12 simple, effective strategies that take advantage of human nature instead of fighting it–from changing the size of your plates to socializing with people with healthy habits, removing healthy labels that send negative messages to redefining comfort food — Provided by publisher.
• The End of Overeating meets Willpower in this provocative takedown of the dieting industry from one of the nation’s leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. 1. Why diets fail you. Diets don’t work — Why diets don’t work: biology, stress, and forbidden fruit — The myth of willpower — pt. 2. Why you are better off without the battle. Diets are bad for you — Obesity is not a death sentence — pt. 3. How to reach your leanest livable weight (no willpower required). Lessons from a lean pig — How to trick your friends into ignoring a cookie — Don’t call that apple healthy — Know when to turn off your brain — How to comfort an astronaut — pt. 4. Your weight is really not the point. Why to stop obsessing and be ok with your body — The real reasons to exercise and strategies for sticking with it — Final words: diet schmiet.

Subjects:

• Reducing diets — Social aspects.
• Reducing diets — Psychological aspects.
• Weight loss — Social aspects.
• Weight loss — Psychological aspects.
• Diet, Reducing.
• Diet, Reducing — psychology.
• Weight Loss.
• Sociological Factors.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 1. The fragmentation of herbal history: the way forward / Anne Stobart and Susan Francia — 2. Early Greek medicine: evidence of models, methods and materia medica / Vicki Pitman — 3. Evaluating the content of medieval herbals / Anne Van Arsdall — 4. Early-modern midwifery manuals and herbal practice / Elaine Hobby — 5. An anatomy of the English Physitian / Graeme Tobyn — 6. The use of trade accounts to uncover the importance of cumin as a medicinal plant in medieval England / Susan Francia — 7. Early modern childbirth and herbs – the challenge of finding the sources – nicky wesson — 8. Testamentary records of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries as a source for the history of herbal medicine in England / Richard Aspin — 9. Galen’s simple medicines: problems in ancient herbal medicine / John Wilkins — 10. Deciphering dioscorides: mountains and molehills? / Alison Denham and Midge Whitelegg — 11. William Turner : a milestone in botanical medicine / Marie Addyman — 12. John Parkinson: gardener and apothecary of London / Jill Francis — 13. Archaeological sources for the history of herbal medicine practice : the case study of St John’s wort with valerian at Soutra medieval hospital / Brian Moffat — 14. How can ethnobotany contribute to the history of western herbal medicine? a Mesoamerican answer / Anna Waldstein — 15. The history of herbal medicine as a developing field / Anne Stobart and Susan Francia.

Subjects:

• Herbs — Therapeutic use — History.
• Materia medica, Vegetable — History.

Requested by Koehler, B

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• Also issued online as part of: PDR electronic library.
• Description based on: 33rd ed. (2012) title from title page.
• Latest issue consulted: 33rd ed. (2012).

Subjects:

• Drugs, Nonprescription — Handbooks, manuals, etc.