Lose the Weight You Hate
by Ritchie Shoemaker, M.D

454 pages, ISBN 0-9665535-2-7
12/01, Gateway Press, Baltimore, Md.

It is about time that we all confronted the fact that the traditional weight loss advice (eat less fat, exercise 30 minutes, 4 times a week and count calories) results in a miserable failure of weight loss and maintenance. This book is a refreshing, reader-friendly look at the biochemistry of fat manufacture through the eyes of a primary care physician trained in molecular biology that leads to an approach to weight loss that works. Learn about the importance of the No-Amylose diet to lose weight and to keep it off. Full of original recipes, case studies and packed with chapters of new material, this book dares to actually give the reader the facts needed to make sense out of the media-spin dominated world that obscures the truth about the genetic basis of weight loss, maintenance, cholesterol, exercise, fiber, gout and other topics. This book will be your trusted guide to a new lifestyle (don't call it a diet) that emphasizes good food, prepared with gusto and served with style. The chapter on the use of a new medication, Avandia, bringing fantastic weight loss when used in combination with the No-Amylose diet, and the chapter on environmental acquisition of diabetes and obesity are each likely to be worth more than any single expense for those with refractory weight loss problems.