Michael F. Roizen - YOU: On A Diet: The Owners Manual for Waist Management

Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted. We cannot say his name enough. Ted Spiker brought the multiple complex pieces together in an accessible and humorous fashion that is edgy but never condescending. Gary Hallgren continues to amaze us with his wit and raw artistic talent. He takes challenging concepts and contorts them into engaging cartoons packed with critically important content. View his illustrations with great care to observe every nuance. Craig Wynett is a seer and had the vision to bring us together. He always busts through the clutter with the big ideas that change the way we (and you) should think. These massive ideas are woven through the text and constitute many of our YOU-reka moments. The Lifestyle 180 team of master chef Jim Perco, nutritionist Kristin Kirkpatrick, and director Dr. Beth Ricanti created sixty new Lifestyle 180 recipes that fit YOU guidelines, that taste terrific (some didnt and got trashed), and that Mike can cook in thirty minutes start to finish. Linda Kahns great editorial advice and attention to detail and data made this edition better. Dr. Ellen Romes brilliant intellect and dedicated desire to contribute information that would benefit the younger readership made her a crucial ally. She was crucial to the appendix on obesity control under age eighteen. Jeff Roizens remarkable ability to gather raw data and interpret the sometimes disparate results helped us teach America about the hard science of obesity research. We thank Joel Harper for his tireless efforts to make the YOU Workout the perfect tool for us to get procrastinators to exercise. Dr. Keith Roachs clinical insights kept our aim on target. While the hours of conference calls, research, and writing were sometimes exhausting, this powerful team always pulled in the same direction to resolve content and style conflicts. Steve Phillips helped us with his very sophisticated understanding of emotional eating. Finally, our agent Candice Fuhrmans superb insights and honest commentary allowed this book to grow into the manuscript America deserves. Arthur Perry is the plastic surgeon supreme who guided our appendix on removing excess skin. And the shrinking John Ellis made important suggestions to this edition.

We also want to thank the group at Free Press (Simon & Schuster) who so enthusiastically supported this material and dedicated themselves to bringing our ideas to the world. Thanks especially to our insightful editor, Dominick Anfuso, and his assistant, Leah Miller. We appreciate the courageous leadership of Martha Levin, and the tireless support of Jill Siegel, Carisa Hays, Linda Dingler, and Suzanne Donahue.

We are indebted to our wonderful collaborators at RealAge.com, including Charlie Silver, Dr. Keith Roach, Meredith Wade, and especially Val Weaver for coming on strong at the end (and for the two Vegetarian Times recipes), and the former Discovery Health team, including Eileen ONeil, Donald Thoms, John Grassie, and, of course, Billy Campbell. The patients depicted in the wonderful shows on Discovery Health and the PBS special YOU: On a Diet were real and are still inspirational: Jodi now weighs less than anytime since grade school; sixty pounds into her weight-loss journey, she tried again to become pregnant and subsequently had a beautiful daughter. Jillian went from a size 18++ to 6. Howard lost weight steadily until meeting his ideal. Weve received more than 80,000 thank-you notes since first publicationall along the lines of Ive tried many others, and this one worked, and Im not yo-yoing anymore. Thank you for the inspiration. We get more than 800 questions a weekkeep them coming. From this, more than 100,000 questions and answers, and weve chosen 101 of the most common to include in this edition. Thank youthey help us learn too.

In a book of this scope based in science, no one human commands all the needed knowledge, so we sought advice from many world experts who selflessly shared their insights in the true academic tradition. We list them all here without details of their contributions in order to save space for the actual book, but we deeply appreciate their dedication to their specialties and willingness to sacrifice their time in helping craft the most scientifically accurate book on obesity possible. We thank Dr. Linda Bartoshuk, Dr. Mark Bessler, John Campodonico, Jason Conviser, Kathy Chambers, Irwin Davis, Ruth Davis, Dr. Lisa Deosimo, Mark Eldaief, Dr. Kevin Fickenscher, Michael Gershon, Donoyan Green, Tracy Hafens, Dr. Byron Hoogwerf, Dr. William Inabnet, Gail Jolly, Evan Johnson, Paul Katz, Judith Korner, Ivan Kronenfeld, Dr. Jon Lapook, Karen Levin, Dr. Ben Lewis, Chris Malcom, Dr. Beth Mintzer, Dr. Michael ODonnell, Susan Petre, Dr. S. Sethu Reddy, Dr. Paul Rosenberg, Sean Shilinsky, Nancy Unobskey, Sidney Unobskey, Meredith Uran-Skuro, Dr. Bernard Walsh, Jim Wharton, and Dr. Jim Zins. This book became a number one bestseller in six countries and sold more than 8 million copies because of the tireless work of so many. Thank you.

Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

Mikes Acknowledgments

Most diets and diet books fail you because you regain more than you lostand that is an epic tragedy of wasted effort. I need to thank the many special people who helped us make this book one that leads to your ideal waist size. So I am grateful to the many other people who did much more than discard the emails when we asked them (sometimes desperately) to help us explain what hadnt been known even five years ago about hunger and satiety. John La Puma, a doc-tor who doubled as a chef at Rick Baylesss Chicago restaurants, taught me more than I now know about food and cooking. And Donna Szymanski had the patience to correct me and make the recipes more times than can be counted on all fingers and toes.

I need to thank the twenty or so fourth-year medical students each year who took the ten-day, ten-hour-a-day course that Dan Zakri and I taughtyou taught me more than I taught you. Id like to also thank the numerous tasters who visited our home to participate in the yearlong quest for perfect recipes that were great-tasting, were easy to make, and contained only foods that made you healthier. And the Wattels of Lettuce Entertain You indulged and encouraged even when their own patrons shunned the food with hearts next to them in the late 1990s (times will change). Our family was fully engagedwith Jeff as our MD, PhD, research assistant and Jennifer and Nancy as critical tasters and reviewers; joined at times by the enlarged family of the Unobskeys and Campodonicos, and Dr. Axel Goetz, Ruth Klein, and Irwin Davis. Ruth especially made the diet chapter easier to follow and helped create the shopping lists. I also need to thank Tracy Hafen, who taught me a magnificent amount about exercise; Sukie Miller and Anita Shreve, for saying the early chapters were just what she wanted to read; the many gerontologists and internists who read sections of the book for accuracy; others on the RealAge team who validated and verified the content, and contributed their expertise to the book; and Shivani Chadha and Kate Poneta, the research associates who worked tirelessly to analyze the nutrients of all the recipes we tested.

I also want to acknowledge the passion and tough love from the staff of the former Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, especially Dr. Dan Dermann, Drew Palumbo, and Dean Harrison. And my partners who allowed me the time to complete the work: Dr. Aaron Gerber and Mike Kessel.

My administrative assistant, Beth Grubb, made this work possible: She made sure the weekends (and most nights) were free of CAVs games to work on YOU, YOU-Turns, and YOU-reka Moments. I could not have done this were The Institute of Anesthesiology, which includes Critical Care Medicine and Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic and its staff not the best in the world. But it is and they are. Add to that the now wonderful and innovative staff and associated at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, including Jim Perko and Kristin Kirkpatrick, who worked tirelessly on the Lifestyle 180 recipes, and their medical director Dr. Beth Ricanati. Its no accident that the Cleveland Clinic has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report number one for fifteen years in a row in cardiac care: Toby Cosgrove, Joe Hahn, Martin Harris, Joe Patrichek, and Paul Madsen are the best at their positions and insist on innovation and simple excellencethey understand the need to prevent illness and promote wellness. And to the Wellness Institute and staff, especially Quintene Graham, who hunted down so many studies, and Nabil Gabriel, who provided so much support. And thanks to all the outstanding colleagues at the clinic who answered our many questions. And my prior and current other associates: Anne-Marie Ruthrauff, Michelle Lewis, and Candy Lawrence, each deserve special thanks, as do some of our original RealAge partners: Martin Rom and Charlie Silver; and Diane Reverand, who told me not to worry about offending medical colleaguesas long as the science was solid, they would understand we were trying to motivate YOU to understand that you can control your genes and jean size.