Best Weight: A Practical Guide to Office-Based Obesity Management

by Yoni Freedhoff, Arya M. Sharma

A practical, concise and readable guide to managing obesity in aclinical setting. A synthesis of reliable evidence and a combined 30+ years ofexperience managing patients coping with excess weight, BEST WEIGHT is theideal resource for physicians, dietitians and other health professionals lookingfor insights and actionable information for helping patients shed pounds safely, sensibly and sustainably.

106 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2010

About the author

I'm an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa, and the founder and medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute—dedicated to non-surgical weight management since 2004.

I've been called a "nutrition watchdog" by the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and "Canada's most outspoken obesity expert" by the press.

My blog, Weighty Matters has been a bit of an obsession of mine since 2005, and I'm pathologically attached to Twitter.

My first book for the public, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work will be published by Crown in March 2014.

Reviews

[Nicole Jolliffe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect.
Exactly what we all need to read and realize. Obesity is a chronic illness and needs to be treated as such. We need to understand the complexity of this disease and how habitual change can be a life long process and may not be weight focused.

[Leenda dela Luna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although designed for doctors, I found this book to be very informative and helpful with regarding to weight issues and how to begin negotiating the path making permanent positive health changes.