The Cambridge Diet: A Manual for Practitioners - Softcover

Marks, J.; Howard, A.N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 940118013X ISBN 13: 9789401180139

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

Obesity in affluent countries continues to be a serious problem. When one runs an Obesity Clinic there appears to be an unending series of patients who need help. Our understanding of weight control has been advanced not only by the studies of obese patients but also by our investigation of the problems of weight gain in young women with anorexia nervosa. Just as among obese patients there is the group of 'efficient metabolizers' who can maintain their excessive weight with a calorie intake occasion- ally as low as 600 kcal per day, so we have demonstrated that among anorexic women there are a few who may fail to gain normal weight with 3500 kcal per day. Some of the latter group may in fact develop T3 (tri-iodothyronine) thyrotoxicosis. One of the major unknown factors is still what determines when patients may be at these extremes. If we knew how to control these extremes we would like, for a time, to switch each to the opposite end of the spectrum. One factor which is becoming apparent from studying people in the machine which continually plots metabolic rate is that the metabolic response to food is a' major factor in determining a person's weight. In general terms there is a tendency for those who are below their ideal weight to have an increased metabolic response to food and those who are above ideal weight to have a reduced metabolic response to food.

About this title

From the Author

I wrote the original Cambridge Diet book back in 1985. The Diet was developed following more than eight years extensive research at the University of Cambridge and the West Middlesex and Addenbrookes Hospitals in the 1970’s.

I have comprehensively updated & redesigned the book but it still contains much of my original story about how the Diet works and how & why it was developed.

It has been wonderful to come back 20 years after writing the original and have a chance to fully update the book because so much has happened in the meantime.

There is much more evidence now of the benefits of Very Low Calorie Diets and of course millions of people around the world have safely and successfully used the Diet.

New additions to the text include an in-depth look at the nutritional make up of the Diet, a detailed history of what happened after the original book was published running right up to the present day and a number of inspiring personal stories of people who successfully lost weight using Cambridge. It also includes a number of calorie-controlled recipes designed to complement the Cambridge programmes.

Dr Alan Howard
Cambridge 2004

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 940118013X
• ISBN 13: 9789401180139
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136