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The fastdiet lose weight, stay healthy, and live longer with the simple secret of intermittent fasting

"This new diet allows users to eat whatever they like five days a week and then fast (consuming 500-600 calories/day) for two nonconsecutive days"--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mosley, Michael, 1957-
Other Authors:	Spencer, Mimi, 1967-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atria Books, 2013.
Edition:	1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Subjects:	Reducing diets > Recipes. Weight loss. Diet. Fasting. Cookbooks.
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Summary:	"This new diet allows users to eat whatever they like five days a week and then fast (consuming 500-600 calories/day) for two nonconsecutive days"--Provided by publisher. Presents a plan to lose weight by limiting caloric intake for two nonconsecutive days each week, intending to slow the aging process and reduce the risk of disease.
Physical Description:	212 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-197) and index.
ISBN:	9781476734941 (hbk.) : 1476734941 (hbk.) :
Author Notes:	Michael Mosley was born on March 22, 1957 in Kolkata, India. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at New College, Oxford. He worked as a banker for two years and decided to change careers and study medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School and then move into psychiatry. His career took another turn as he joined a trainee assistant producer program at the BBC in 1985. He is best known as a presenter of television programs on biology and medicine, and his regular appearances on The One Show. Mosley produced a number of science programs. His work includes The Human Face, Inventions That Changed the World, Blood and Guts, Medical Mavericks, The Story of Science and The Truth About Exercise. He has won numerous television awards, including a Royal Television Award. He was named Medical Journalist of the Year in 1995 by the British Medical Association. He is the author of The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet and the coauthor, with Mimi Spencer, of The FastDiet. (Bowker Author Biography)