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WEIGHT LOSS CONFIDENTIAL
By: Anne Fletcher
How Teens Lose Weight and Keep It Off - and What They Wish Parents Knew
Houghton Mifflin
January 2007
On Sale: January 4, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 061843366X
EAN: 9780618433667
Hardcover
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Despite the alarming rise in teen obesity and the serious health problems associated with it, talking about weight loss with children is still often considered taboo. Many experts think it leads to further weight gain or triggers eating disorders. But when her son finally lost more than sixty pounds after years of struggle, the award-winning health journalist Anne Fletcher wondered whether other teens had made similar turnarounds and, if so, what role their families played. Using the approach that has made her previous books bestsellers, she conducted in-depth surveys and interviews with more than 100 young people across the United States and Canada who had lost as much as 100 pounds in a healthful way and maintained that loss. Based on firsthand accounts from teens and their families and bolstered by the latest studies, "Weight Loss Confidential" shows that the problems teens confront when losing weight are quite different from those faced by adults. It reveals what strategies helped them lose excess pounds, which tactics can create a healthful food environment at home, and which ones backfire. "Weight Loss Confidential" is the first book to go to the real experts on teen weight loss, teens themselves. Like "Thin for Life", it contradicts conventional thinking and gives hope to millions of young people and their families.
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