Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life - Hardcover

Smith, Ian K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312606354 ISBN 13: 9780312606350

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2010

Synopsis

Ian K. Smith, M.D., has inspired millions to lose weight - both through his effective diet books and through his outreach work with the "50 Million Pound Challenge". By counselling dieters, he's learned that achieving hard-fought goals can make a person happy for a time, but that these accomplishments don't necessarily lead to long-term happiness. In "Happy", Dr. Ian has created a programme that will motivate readers to tap into behaviours and mindsets that work and last. It's not euphoria Smith is after. With his expertise he can help anyone reach their personal high-mark of positive feelings. You don't have to overhaul your life for enduring happiness; simple steps you start today can spark big and permanent change. By focusing on ideas like these, "Happy" gives you all the tools and exercises you need for a fulfilled and happy life: how to be optimistic; why optimism and realism are not opposites; the importance of family and community; how to get outside of yourself; why involvement leads to contentment; tapping the power of simple pleasures; and, how to be, not just do. From one of America's most compelling and trusted voices, "Happy" delivers what its title promises.

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About the Author

Ian K. Smith, M.D., is the number one bestselling author of The Fat Smash Diet, Extreme Fat Smash Diet, The 4 Day Diet, The 4 Day Detox and EAT. He is a medical contributor on The View and The Rachael Ray Show, the diet expert on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Healthwise on American Urban Radio Networks. He writes a medical column for Men’s Health magazine. He has written for various publications including Time and Newsweek, and been featured in People, Essence, Ebony and Cosmopolitan, among others. He is a former medical correspondent for NBC and for NewsChannel 4 in New York, where he filed reports for NBC’s Nightly News and The Today Show. In 2007, he created the 50 Million Pound Challenge, a free national weight loss initiative with a growing list of more than 1.9 million people registered. Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and received a master’s in science education from Columbia University. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. A native of Danbury, Connecticut, Dr. Smith currently resides in Manhattan.

From the Back Cover

Become the person you want to be!

In Happy, Smith reveals the sometimes surprising secrets of enduring happiness: you don t have to overhaul your life to change its tone. Simple steps you can start today will put you on the path to your own personal high-water mark of positive feelings.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312606354
• ISBN 13: 9780312606350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240