Lose to Win or The Hungry Self

Lose to Win: A Cardiologist's Guide to Weight Loss and Nutritional Healing

Author: Stephen T Sinatra

As you'll quickly see, this is not just a diet book, but much more. It's a resource for how to develop a healthier lifestyle in several areas, from the viewpoint of a cardiologist.

Stephen Sinatra, M.D., will show you how Roger Buffaloe lost over 200 pounds. He'll not only show you how to lose weight, eat healthier and live longer, he will also educate you on the effect of foods on the heart and body.

Based on the effects he's seen in his own life and the lives of his patients, Dr. Sinatra offers simple techniques to reach your personal weight loss and nutritional goals. He shares not just which foods to eat, but his own personal recipes for food preparation. "Healthy food is a cardinal ingredient in preventive medicine," Sinatra explains.

And through the entire process, his motto is "no deprivation and no loss of pleasure."

"This book is not limited to dieting and deprivation, but on nurturing the body with nutritional and emotional healing. Lose to Win supports a weight-reduction process in which the individual opens doors to creativity and aliveness."

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	IX
Chapter 1	Diets Don't Work: The Roger Buffaloe Story	1
Chapter 2	Obesity: The Problem	17
Chapter 3	At the Heart of the Matter	23
Chapter 4	The Nuts and Bolts of Nutrition	37
Chapter 5	Fiber: The Good	47
Chapter 6	Cholesterol: The Bad	55
Chapter 7	Fat: The Issue	67
Chapter 8	Salt, Water, Alcohol, and Caffeine	77
Chapter 9	Exercise	85
Chapter 10	Vitamins and Minerals	99
Chapter 11	Foods That Heal	137
Chapter 12	Recipes for Life	151
Chapter 13	Who Is This New Person In the Mirror	179
Chapter 14	Lose To Win	187
	Appendix	194
	Selected References	214
	Index	225

Book review: Very Special Agents or Child of War Woman of Peace

The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity

Author: Kim Chernin

Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis Chesler

San Francisco Chronicle - Robin Lakoff

Kim Chernin offers a perspective that is refreshingly different. Her identification of the roots of eating disorders in women's roles is a positive step, and her solution far more joyous and rational than any other I've seen.

What People Are Saying

Phyllis Chesler
An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders.

Lillian B. Rubin
"Every woman will understand the problem of The Hungry Self--the hunger that is expressed through food but that covers our deepest need to realize a fully developed and autonomous self, a self that can satisfy the authentic hungers within us."