The Overnight Diet: The Proven Plan for Fast, Permanent Weight Loss - Hardcover

One of the world's premier weight-loss experts, Caroline Apovian has distinguished herself as a leading researcher, treatment provider, and teacher in the field of weight loss while also working as:

• Director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center, Boston University Medical Center
• Co-Director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Support Services, Boston University Medical Center
• Director of Clinical Research at the Obesity Research Center, Boston University Medical Center
• Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Her federal government positions include:

• Nutrition consultant to NASA
• Appointed member of the federal government's panel on the evaluation and treatment of overweight adults

"In the OVERNIGHT DIET, Dr. Caroline Apovian has created the ultimate blueprint for anyone trying to lose weight. Her one-of-a-kind diet delivers exactly what dieters are desperately looking for: an easy to follow plan for SIGNIFICANT rapid weight loss that lasts while also promoting better health and fighting disease, and increasing longevity. And it's the first diet book that gives dieters that extra edge in the battle of the bulge by maintaining lean muscle mass." --Louis Aronne, M.D., Director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and New York Times bestelling author of The Skinny

"THE OVERNIGHT DIET is anything but your standard fare in diet books. It's the real thing for people who are serious about losing weight as quickly as possible in a healthy, long-lasting way." --George L. Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School: S. Daniel Abraham Chair of Nutrition Medicine, Associate Professor of Surgery, and Associate Director of Nutrition, Division of Nutrition.

"Caroline Apovian knows how to make the science of weight loss entertaining, and has created a diet that works on the inside for results on the outside!" --Cynthia Stamper Graff, author of Lean for Life

"Dr. Caroline Apovian, an internationally-recognized expert in the medical management of weight, breaks new ground with this book. She has balanced the profound need people feel for encouraging, quick results with a medically sound approach to dieting that produces lasting weight loss and better overall health. She has done this by combining a profound scientific understanding of the metabolic implications of weight loss with exceptional empathy for people who need help losing weight and keeping it off." --Theodore K. Kyle, RPh., MBA. Chair of The Obesity Society's Advocacy Committee, and Steering Committee for the STOP Obesity Alliance