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ALSO BY DR. SHARI LIEBERMAN

Get Off the Menopause Roller Coaster
The Real Vitamin & Mineral Book

ALSO BY NANCY BRUNING

The Real Vitamin & Mineral Book
Coping with Chemotherapy
Swimming for Total Fitness
Breast Implants: Everything You Need to Know
Effortless Beauty
Rhythms and Cycles: Sacred Patterns in Everyday Life

To my husband, Augusto,
whose love and support make immense projects possible.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MY SINCERE THANKS go to Doug Kalman, M.S., R.D., FACN; Carlon Colker, M.D.; and Eric Cohen for their research assistance and for stopping in the middle of whatever they were doing to answer my questions.

FOREWORD

ANYONE WHO KNOWS me is well aware of how openly critical I am of the results achieved by modern health care. One of the fundamental reasons I went into medicine in the first place was to battle hypocrisy in health care. Looking around me, I saw doctors in terrible physical condition. I recall meeting the head of oncology (the study and treatment of cancer) during my days as a hospital resident physician. Well call him Dr. Z. It was a new rotation for that month, so I showed up early for rounds just to get organized. I was shocked when I found Dr. Z standing in front of the hospital smoking a cigarette! His reckless stupidity is still etched in my mind as if it were yesterday. I asked myself: How could this guy tell people how to improve their lives when he treated his own with such disregard? Unfortunately, there are several like him in the field of health care.

And dietitians, nutritionists, and other nutritional advisors are no exception. To this day, I still see one nutritionist after another with a weight problem, and even with eating disorders. The average nutritional advisor is visibly overweight. So it baffles me that people would put their trust in them. Perhaps its because they feel they have no choice since there are so few who are themselves shining examples of personal success. Only an elite few actually practice what they preach and properly carry the torch of health, nutrition, and wellness with honor and dignity. I consider my dear friend and colleague Dr. Shari Lieberman to be one of those exquisitely rare practitioners.

The fact is that rates of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes (the three major killers) are at an all-time high. Youd think that if we knew what the heck we were doing, we would be getting healthier as a society. But clearly, we are not. While its true we are living longer with modern medical techniques and drugs designed to address these conditions once we are afflicted, we have been largely unsuccessful at figuring out how to avoid being stricken in the first place.

Obesity, a prerequisite for literally dozens of fatal diseases, is also epidemic. More than half of America is obese. Yet self-proclaimed diet experts with no credentials are flooding the market with their dribble. Charlatans and snake oil salesmen hawk their magic pills and quick-fix remedies. Unfortunately for us, each year America gets fatter, and we as a society suffer. The results speak for themselves.

Yet Sharis successful results have always shined through like a beacon of hope for so many. Her work spans decades and her successes are legendary. Therefore, I welcome my dear friends latest triumph, Dare to Lose, with unbridled enthusiasm and heartfelt joy. In it, Shari eliminates the confusion surrounding weight-loss supplements. Having researched and published extensively in this specific field, she has made it clear that many weight-loss supplements can be safer and even more effective than many prescription drugs used for weight loss. She does an excellent job of reviewing the scientific literature and providing readers with accurate information about a very confusing subject. In addition, Shari lives and breathes what she teaches to others. Shes in great shape and exercises incredibly hard. She also eats well and takes the same type of supplements she recommends to others. So, Shari is no hypocrite. She is a prime example of someone who can truly deliver to you what they have delivered to themselves.

Carlon M. Colker, M.D., FACN, Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director, Peak Wellness, Inc. President and Founder, Peak Wellness Foundation

INTRODUCTION

IF ITS HAPPENED once, its happened a thousand times. A patient comes to see memost often a womanbecause she wants to lose weight. Usually, she has dieted many times and each time she finds it harder to lose weight, but easier to gain it back. She is doing everything right according to the diets. She may even be religiously following a very low-calorie diet and starving herself on 800 calories a day or lessbut she is still not losing weight.

Its my metabolism! Everything I eat turns to fat! she says. I can just imagine how her friends and family roll their eyes and snicker when they hear this, convinced that she is cheating on her diet and sneaking scores of candy bars behind their backs. But I believe her. Obviously none of the usual approaches to weight loss are working for her or she wouldnt be sitting in my office.

And obviously dieting hasnt worked for you, or you wouldnt have bought this book.

A slow metabolism has become a handy scapegoat among dieters, a joke. But the truth is, many people do have a faulty metabolism and almost everything they eat does turn to fat. Some people are born with the metabolic glitch that causes them to gain weight. But for most people, this problem develops over time. Years of eating the wrong foods and of dieting, dieting, dieting combined with sedentary living have conspired to twist and tweak their body processes almost beyond recognition. And once you reach a certain age, your metabolism can slow even further. The woman sitting before me is typical: she has worked very hard at controlling her weight, and yet, there she is, overweight, miserable, a victim of the diet wars, her metabolism a mere shadow of its former self.

Can you relate?

As a clinical nutritionist in practice for twenty years, I have learned that the world is full of frustrated dieters just like her ... just like you. They are so tired of being overweight that they can taste it. Most of them have tried many dietseating cheeseburgers or grapefruit, eating for their blood type, eating pasta until it comes out of their ears, substituting low-cal protein shakes for real food, taking appetite suppressants like Phen-fen. These methods may have worked temporarily, but in six months or a year, they find themselves back at square oneor worse. They find themselves right back in the ranks of the 50 percent of Americans who are overweight and perhaps even among the 30 percent who are medically obese. Ironically, Americans have never been dieting so much and have never spent so much on diet foods, yet we have never been so heavy.

Whats going on here? Why are so many of us so fat and miserable and why do so many of us try and fail to control our weight? And most important of allwhat can we do about it? How can we get off this physical and emotional roller coaster?

First of all, I want you to know that you are not a failure. Its the diets that are the failure! I have seen it over and over: Most diets fail because they are extreme, unnatural, unhealthy, and impossible to maintain. Whether they rely on substituting shakes for meals or some other gimmick, none of them work over the long haul. When we look at long-term studies of these kinds of diets, the results show that over 90 percent gain the weight back in just one year. And over 97 percent regain the weight by the end of the second year. So, any extreme diet is definitely not a permanent cure for being overweight. Is there a cure? Absolutely, my little darling.

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