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With about two-thirds of American adults overweight or obese, it’s no surprise that dieting is our national repast-time.

At any given moment, up to half of all American women (and 25 percent of men) say they are actively attempting to lose weight by changing what and how much they eat.

“The majority of the nation is perpetually dieting, feeling guilty, eating alone, while driving in their cars, etc.,” said Andrea Garber, an associate professor of pediatrics and chief nutritionist for UC San Francisco’s adolescent eating disorders program and its child obesity clinic. “(Food writer) Michael Pollan calls it ‘our national eating disorder.’ ”

The typical attempt at dieting begins informally and unsupervised: We vow to eat less, to eat better, to cut down on things like sweets and soda. When that doesn’t work, we turn to commercial remedies, of which there are many, from Weight Watchers, Atkins and The Zone to South Beach, Dukan and the so-called Paleolithic Diet.

Source: U-T San Diego

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The book offers a breakthrough solution that “helps you lose weight without counting calories, starving yourself, or eating bland packaged foods. You will see results even if you don’t maintain an exercise regimen.”

“I can recall two times in my life, in my twenties and again in my thirties, that I was very committed to losing weight so I followed all the typical advice to ‘eat less and exercise more’ but it just didn’t work for me. So, being a nutritionist, I designed a weight-loss system, the Detox-Eat-Move (DEM) System, that has helped me and my clients shed pounds fast. The results in just a few short weeks are remarkable,” says Smith.

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