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The New York Obesity Research Center Weight Loss Program
Website:
nyorc.org/weightlossprogram
       E-mail:
[email protected]
Groups meet once a week for one year and are led by highly skilled and experienced professionals, ready with the newest and most effective strategies to help clients lose weight and keep it off.
1090 Amsterdam Avenue, 14th Floor • New York, NY 10025
Phone: (212) 523-8440 • Fax: (212) 523-3416

University of Colorado Center for Human Nutrition
Website:
uchsc.edu/nutrition
Research conducted at the CHN focuses on obesity prevention and treatment, nutrient metabolism, and micronutrient status in children. The community outreach activities initiated and conducted through the CHN aim to improve quality of life by promoting physical activity and nutritional awareness.
Campus Box C290 • 4200 East Ninth Avenue • Denver, CO 80262
Phone: (303) 372-0000

Duke University Diet and Fitness Center
Website:
cfl.duke.edu
       E-mail:
[email protected]
The Center’s staff is skilled in weight management, but also guides patients to substantially increase physical activity, which is as equally important as eating healthfully. Clients learn strategies conducive to weight management while maximizing overall health. Goals are to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, to minimize disability from arthritis and chronic pain and to build stamina, mobility and lung function, while managing stress and improving mood. This program is not for everyone. It requires a significant investment in time, money and energy. Those who have not given serious attention to less intensive approaches should perhaps try those first. This is a place for folks who are serious about charting a new path to better health.
804 West Trinity Avenue • Durham, NC 27701
Phone: (800) 235-3853 • Fax: (919) 684-8246

Loma Linda University Center for Health Promotion
Website:
llu.edu/llu/chp
A free, informative one-hour session designed to describe the various weight management programs and helps clients decide what program will best meet their needs. The Optifast program is a twenty-six week, medically supervised program for individuals with fifty or more pounds to lose. Lean Choices is a twelve-week class for those who want to improve their health and weight through exercise, food choices and the psychology of eating.
Evans Hall • 24785 Stewart Street • Loma Linda, CA 92350
Phone: (909) 558-4594

Scripps Clinic Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center
Website:
scrippshealth.org
A comprehensive program for adults, adolescents and pediatrics covering every aspect of weight management for both underweight patients and those struggling with morbid obesity. Includes clinical trials testing everything from hormones, diets and medical devices to supplements, herbal preparations and nutritional aids. Also provides a full complement of care for types 1 and 2 diabetes (pediatric and adult), thyroid disease, pediatric growth and development, osteoporosis, and pituitary and adrenal disorders. Medically supervised, individualized exercise, nutritional and psychological programs are available. Specialists study the genetic abnormalities of obesity to accurately diagnose the cause of weight gain and plan for its care.
12395 El Camino Real, Suite 317 • San Diego, CA 92130
Phone: (866) 444-3638 • Fax: (858) 794-1244

University of Cincinnati Obesity Research Center
Website:
psychiatry.uc.edu/orc
Conducts basic scientific research on the regulation of body weight and the etiology and potential treatment of obesity. It encompasses several laboratories from various departments at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Dept of Psychiatry • Genome Research Institute
2170 East Galbraith Road • Bldg. E Room 308 • Cincinnati, OH 45237
Phone: (513) 558-6863 • Fax: (513) 558-8990

University of Pittsburgh Obesity/Nutrition Research Center
Website:
pitt.edu/~onrc
       E-mail:
[email protected]
Focuses on behavioral aspects of obesity and behavioral treatment of obesity. A patient-oriented research facility. Assessing the impact of current treatments of obesity is a key part of their focus. These assessments include examining metabolic and genetic factors related to insulin resistance, the impact of obesity and other nutrition-related illnesses on body composition, and examining behavioral, pharmacological and surgical treatments of obesity.

200 Lothrop Street • Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582
Phone: 1-800-533-UPMC (8762)

Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
Website:
yale.edu/ycewd
       E-mail:
[email protected]
Provides services to members of the community to better understand eating and weight disorders.
P.O. Box 208205 • New Haven, CT 06520
Phone: (203) 432-4610

BOOKS

Body Image
Do I Look Fat in This? Get Over Your Body and On with Your Life
Rhonda Britten
Women befriend their bodies—first by facing and accepting what they see in the mirror, and then by empowering them to make healthier decisions about their weight.
ISBN 0525949453 • 272 pages • hardcover • $24.95 • Penguin Group • 2006
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A.
Two prominent nutritionists focus on nurturing your body rather than starving it. Encourages naturalweight loss and helps you find theweight youwere meant to be. Compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living
ISBN 0312321236 • 304 pages • paperback • $13.95 • St.Martin’s Press • 2003

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Jenni Schaefer
Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one where many succumb to their eating disorders. Readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition.
ISBN 0071422986 • 192 pages • paperback • $14.95 • McGraw-Hill • 2003

Children’s Obesity/Weight Management
Ending the Food Fight, Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast
Food/Fake Food World
David S. Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., with Suzanne Rostler, M.S., R.D.
High-calorie, low-quality fast food and “fake food” (processed foods unlike anything found in nature), present a serious challenge for parents managing their children’s weight. Harvard endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig’s groundbreaking research in the use of a low-glycemic diet to combat obesity is the basis for some of the most successful diets of the last decade. Dr. Ludwig’s low-glycemic diet combined with a powerful, nine-week progressive plan addresses biology, behavior and environment and integrates them into a practical prescription for weight loss. Dr. Ludwig gives parents all the tools they need to help their children win the food fight once and for all.
ISBN 0618683267 • 320 pages • hardcover • $26.00
Houghton-Mifflin • April 2007

Diet Plans
American Heart Association No-Fad Diet:
A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss
After a simple assessment of your current habits, you choose the eating and exercise strategies that best fit your needs. You’ll learn how to set realistic goals, eat well to lose extra pounds safely and add physical activity to keep the weight off for good. This book offers more than 190 delicious, all-new recipes, two weeks of sample menus, guidelines for meal planning, useful tips on dining out and food shopping, and sound advice for staying on track to reach your target weight.
ISBN 1400051592 • 464 pages • hardcover • $24.95 • Clarkson Potter • 2005

Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet
Peter H. Gott, M.D.

A sensible guide for healthy eating that will help you achieve your desired weight and maintain it for life. Simple, inexpensive, easy to follow, nutritious, and easy to maintain over the long haul. Eliminate flour and added sugar from your diet. You’ll still enjoy lean meats, brown rice, low-fat dairy products, vegetables, fruits and other goodies. Allows foods from all the food groups, so you’ll be getting all the nutrients you need to maintain a healthy body while shedding unwanted pounds.
ISBN 1884956521 • 244 pages • paperback • $14.95
Quill Driver Books • 2006

How to Make Almost Any Diet Work
Anne Katherine
Bestselling author and psychotherapist Anne Katherine—herself a recovering overeater—specializes in treating appetite disorders and food addictions. Discusses the chemistry behind appetite, hunger, fullness and satiety and gives focused activities to decrease appetite and increase satiety. Working from the premise that most overeaters use food as a comfort drug, the reader learns how to acquire comfort from other, healthier sources. Provides practical tools to help the reader analyze his/her own body chemistry to choose the diet that will best fit his/her needs.
ISBN 1592853579 • 250 pages • paperback • $14.95 • Hazelden • 2006

The 90/10 Weight-Loss Plan
Joy Bauer, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
The 90/10 plan provides approximately 50 percent of total calories from quality carbohydrates, moderate amounts from lean protein and limited amounts from fat—proportions that research has proven to be optimal for good health and disease prevention. The meal plans are balanced to provide you with the most vitamins and minerals possible for the controlled amount of calories consumed. Menus are also low in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol, and high in fiber, phytochemicals and antioxidants.
ISBN 0312303971 • 304 pages • paperback • $13.95
St Martin’s Griffin • 2002

The Cheater’s Diet: The Medically Proven Way to Supercharge Your Weight Loss, Break Through Diet Ruts and Stay Thin for Good
Paul Rivas, M.D., and Ernie Tremblay
From helping over 15,000 people lose weight, Dr. Paul Rivas discovered people who cheat on their diets lose weight the fastest and keep it off the longest. He explains this scientifically validated secret that ends yo-yo dieting: It’s not whether you cheat on your diet (because you will!), but how and when you do it. He not only encourages you, but requires you to indulge in delicious foods such as chocolate, wine, cinnamon buns, beer and pizza. The healthiest, most effective weekday eating plan known to science with doctor-approved recipes that are simple and delicious
ISBN 0757303218 • 203 pages • hardcover • $18.95
Health Communications, Inc. • 2005

The DASH Diet Action Plan
Marla Heller, M.S., R.D.
The 2005 dietary guidelines for Americans recommends this eating plan for everyone, and the DASH diet forms the basis for the new MyPyramid. The diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, low-fat or nonfat dairy, and includes lean meats, fish and poultry, grains, nuts and beans. It helps lower cholesterol and supports healthy weight loss. This book is designed to make it easy to put the DASH program into practice in your life, showing how to eat on-the-run, how to add more vegetables even if you hate vegetables, how to make over your kitchen to support the DASH diet, and how to lose weight with the DASH diet.
ISBN 0976340801 • 223 pages • paperback • $19.95 • Amidon Press • 2005

The Fat Smash Diet
Ian K. Smith, M.D.
Not a gimmick or short-term fix. It is a four-phase diet that starts out with a natural detox phase to clean impurities out of the system. Once this nine-day phase is completed, the next three phases encourage the addition of everyday foods that promote significant weight loss. In just thirty days, most dieters will complete all four phases. There is no calorie counting, and as an added bonus, there are over fifty easy-to-cook, tasty recipes that make it easier to stick with the plan.
ISBN 0312363133 • 159 pages • paperback • $12.95 • St.Martin’s Press • 2006
The Rice Diet Solution
Kitty Gurkin Rosati, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., and Robert Roseti, M.D.
Men lose on average twenty-eight to thirty pounds and women on average nineteen to twenty pounds per month on this diet! The Rice Diet also detoxes your body, ridding it of excess water weight and toxins from processed foods and the environment. The program’s results have been documented by extensive studies and confirmed by thousands of people who report amazing weight loss, as well as immediate improvement in such conditions as heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. Includes hundreds of tasty, filling, easy-to-prepare recipes—some from the Rice House kitchen, others inspired by major chefs and adapted to Rice Diet standards. Not just an eating plan, but a physical, emotional and spiritual program that will give you new vitality, energy and longevity.
ISBN 0743289838 • 368 pages • hardcover • $25.00
Simon & Schuster • 2005

You: On a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management
Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
A wealth of material that tests your weight-management IQ and busts popular myths about dieting and weight loss. The diet and exercise plans are easy to follow and the authors discuss medical intervention, drugs and surgery.
ISBN 0743292545 • 384 pages • hardcover • $25.00 • Free Press • 2006

Health & Fitness
DietMinder: Personal Food & Fitness Journal: A Deluxe Food Diary
MemoryMinder Journals
The roomy, fill-in-the-blank format gives you plenty of space for the detailed entries. It’s organized and easy to use. The Goals section sets you on a clear and defined plan of action. The Daily Record pages guide you effortlessly through breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, supplements and daily exercise. Totaling your food counts and using the Progress Charts is a breeze! Other sections include basic Guidelines for daily servings, nutritional recommendations and a “calories burned” chart. The handy Favorite Foods section includes food count information on over 100 common foods and can be customized by adding your own favorites.
ISBN 0963796836 • 224 pages • spiral • $14.95
MemoryMinder Journals • 2000