Balanced Days, Balanced Lives

This book is an antidote to the familiar falsehoods that the commercial diet industry has promoted for decades.

In these pages meet forty-two real people—representative of thousands more—who have moved beyond the hype and gotten down to the business of living better, healthier lives. They are the pioneers of a hopeful New Way Forward in the nation's struggle to reverse the dangerous, rising trends of obesity and chronic disease. Learn their methods and strategies for success in Eight Guiding Truths for Lifelong Weight Control and Nutritional Balance. Read their inspiring stories of change, and see that joining them is well within your reach. Discover that good health comes not from deprivation, but with great bounty and pleasure.

Readers who live by the truths and the real-life examples in this book will—finally, at long last—be in charge of their bodies' health and on the path to improved fitness and lifelong weight control.