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The Simple Diet by James W. Anderson, M.D. & Nancy J. Gustafson, M.S., R.D.
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The Simple Diet

A Doctor's Science-based Plan

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Narrator John Allen Nelson

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Length 6 hours 34 minutes
Language English
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If you have tried to lose weight and failed, or lost weight and failed to keep it off, you're not alone. Two out of three Americans are overweight, many with between thirty and one hundred pounds to lose. Now Dr. James W. Anderson, a professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky, shares his groundbreaking, scientifically based nutritional plan that has already helped thousands of Americans lose weight—sometimes more than one hundred pounds—and keep it off permanently. It can also help you:


  •     Lower cholesterol, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar.

  •     Reverse type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related health conditions.

  •     Decrease your risk for type 2 diabetes and its related consequences.

  •     Eliminate the need for dangerous (and expensive) gastric bypass surgery.

  •     Help you feel better about yourself and enjoy your life!


Best of all, you can use prepared foods that are easy to find in the supermarket. There's no calorie counting. No measuring. No guesswork. And if you stick with this easy-to-follow plan—as thousands of people already have—there's a nearly foolproof guarantee of success. Lifelong success. Many people have changed their eating habits and improved their health by using this program. Now it's your turn.

Currently Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Clinical Nutrition at the College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, James W. Anderson, M.D., is the founder and president of the Obesity Research Network, a group of leading experts who perform clinical research in the area of obesity. An active writer, James has published over two hundred and twenty research articles and over one hundred and ninety book chapters on issues related to health and nutrition. His publications have appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of American Medical Association, Journal of American Dietetic Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He is the author or coauthor of several popular books, including Live Longer Better, Dr. Anderson's Antioxidant, Antiaging Health Program, and Diabetes .He is also the chair of the National Fiber Council(NFC) and directs the UK Health Management Resources Weight Management Program.

Nancy J. Gustafson, M.S., R.D., is a registered dietician and has served as a nutritionist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, clinical dietician at the University of Maryland Hospital and Carle Clinic in Illinois, and nutrition instructor at North Dakota State University. She has authored or coauthored nine books and numerous professional and lay articles on nutrition and health. Nancy lives in Fargo, North Dakota.

John Allen Nelson's critically acclaimed roles on television's 24 and Vanished are among the highlights of his twenty-five-plus years as an actor, screenwriter, and film producer. As a narrator, he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for his reading of Zoo Story by Thomas French.

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