Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem Eating, Once and for All
Although not written by a celebrity doctor, this is an important food-behavior book. Nutritionist and nurse Antonello has studied eating disorders to determine causes and discover solutions. The American way of losing weight involves famine, which eventually triggers feast, all of it becoming a vicious cycle of undereating and overeating. Throw out the bathroom scale, says Antonello. Eat until you feel satisfied. Those sensible rules, along with eight others, are well illustrated in self-administering questionnaires, very personal tales of diet addictions and food disorders, and emotional arguments and rational facts to prove that listening to your body is the best weight-control program existent.Barbara Jacobs