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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself

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methods for a healthier you...

How many of you out there, like me, have been struggling to lose weight or to switch to healthier eating habits? You feel you’ll never have the will power to reach and maintain a healthy weight to make you feel and look better. Three news books on our library shelves might be of help. All three offer insights and useful tools to help us find a solution. All three focus on how the body works, rather than rigid diet rules. All three also reveal how the American food industry works against us. In The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, Dr. David Kessler cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar, fat, and salt. Dr Kessler believes that these ingredients stimulate the appetite, “setting in motion a cycle of desire and consumption that ends with a nation of overeaters.” Dr Kessler’s goal is to explain what is happening to us and how to control our eating. In Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, New York Times bestselling author Marc Bittman offers a plan for responsible eating that is as good as the planet as it is for ourselves. Bittman, a food writer, saw how cutting meat and processed foods from two of his three daily meals resulted in a 35 pound weight loss and improved blood levels. In Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself, Dr. Alejandro Junger addressed the root of our weight problems and health ailments rather than specific diets and the management of symptoms using medications. This New York cardiologist, a leader in the field of integrative medicine, has come up with a plan to rid the toxic buildups in our systems accumulated in the course of our daily lives. By following Dr. Junger’s program the extra weight will drop off and more importantly, nagging health problems will disappear. In all three books each author has addressed his own journey to weight loss and improved health. Reading them could prove life changing.