Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series Weight Loss: important facts, inspiring stories
Jack Canfield is a best-selling author and one of America's leading experts in the development of human potential. He is both a dynamic and entertaining speaker and a highly sought-after trainer with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences to pen their hearts, love more openly and pursue their dreams.He is the author and narrator of several best-selling audio- and video cassette programs, includingSelf Esteem and Peak Performance, How to Build High Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem in the ClassroomandChicken Soup for the Soul – Live. He is regularly seen on television shows such asGood Morning America, 20/20andNBC Nightly News. Jack has co-authored numerous books, including theChicken Soup for the Soul Series, Dare to WinandThe Aladdin Factor(all with Mark Victor Hansen),100 Ways to Build Self-Concept in the Classroom(with Harold C. Wells) andHeart At Work(with Jacqueline Miller).Jack is a regularly featured speaker for professional associations, school districts, government agencies, churches, hospitals, sales organizations and corporations.Jack conducts an annual eight-day Training of Trainers program in the areas of self esteem and peak performance. It attracts educators, counselors, parenting trainers, corporate trainers, professional speakers, ministers and other interested in developing their speaking and seminar-leading skills.Visit the Chicken Soup for the Soul website, at www.chickensoup.com.Mark Victor Hansen is a professional speakers who, in the last twenty years, had made over four-thousand presentations to more than 2 million people in 32 countries. His presentations cover sales excellence and strategies; personal empowerment and development; and how to triple your income and double your time off.Mark has spent a lifetime dedicated to his mission of making a profound and positive difference in people's lives. Throughout his career, he has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to create a more powerful and purposeful future for themselves while stimulating the sale of billions of dollars worth of goods and services.Marc is a prolific writer and has authored Future Diary, How to Achieve Total Prosperity and The Miracle of Tithing. He is co-author of theChicken Soup for the SoulSeries,Dare to WinandThe Aladdin Factor(all with Jack Canfield), andThe Master Motivator(with Joe Batten).Mark has also produced a complete library of personal empowerment audio- and videocassette programs that have enabled his listeners to recognize and use their innate abilities in their business and personal lives. His message has made him a popular television and radio personality, with appearances on ABC, CBS, HBO, PBS, and CNN. He has also appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, including Success, Entrepreneur and Changes.Mark is a big man with a heart and spirit to match — an inspiration to all who seek to better themselves.Visit the Chicken Soup for the Soul website, at www.chickensoup.com.Kenneth Andrew Larson, M.D., is a general surgeon with special interests in surgical nutrition, advanced laparoscopic surgery and bariatric (obesity) surgery. He trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and New Jersey's Monmouth Medical Center. In 2004, he joined a private surgical practice affiliated with the JFK Medical Center Staff in Atlantis, Florida.