If you want to drive crazy Ali Zentner, say "they say" to her When discussing diet and weight loss.
"They say drink eight glasses of water, they say stay away from carbs, they say watch the gluten. First of all, who are 'They' and where is the science to prove it all?" the gregarious obesity expert told me in a recent conversation.
"It's this one-size-fits-all phenomenon that really bothers me."
Zentner, from Vancouver, knows a thing or two About weight loss.
She practises internal medicine and is a specialist in cardiac risk management, and she is an obesity expert who has Helped Thousands of obese and overweight patients Achieve a Healthier lifestyle.
Perhaps Something that Gives her more street credibility, though, is That She Weighed 326 pounds eleven.
She has lived it.
And she made the changes Necessary to Live a Healthier Life.
Zentner has written a book, The Weight-Loss Prescription: A Doctor's Plan for Permanent Weight Reduction and Better Health for Life, published by Penguin Books. Part personal story, part science, part stories from some of her patients, it really is a must-read for anyone who Struggles with weight.
There are a lot of books about weight loss and lifestyle change, and maybe you have found one That Works. Somehow Zentner's approach, Which touches on the physical and emotional aspects of being overweight, and the practical advice she provee, makes her the best book I have ever read on the subject.
Zentner told me she wrote it more from a doctor's perspective than her journey staff. "That'll argue its science, and five per cent instruction my own story."
Obesity is an illness, she said. "Cancer gets Respect, but obesity does."
There is so much finger pointing when it comes to weight loss, she said.
"There is a serious LACK of appreciation in mainstream society on how hard it is to lose weight," she added. "People are Told it's about lifestyle change, to find a new way of doing things, but how do you go about that, really?"
