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Volumetrics Eating Plan, Volumetrics

Meal plans and recipes for “the most popular and effective diet you have never heard of” (Newsweek).

Ranked as one of the best diet plans by US News & World Report,Volumetrics helps you to lose weight by putting the focus on feeling satisfied with fewer calories. Now author and nutrition Barbara Rolls has put together comes an illustrated eating plan based on her breakthrough approach to weight loss.

Almost four years after it first appeared, Dr. Rolls’ landmark Volumetrics is still selling, rapidly approaching 150,zero copies in combined editions. Now, Dr. Rolls offers a valuable collection of 125 Volumetrics recipes, along with a menu planner that will enable her readers to quit “dieting” for good, and lose excess pounds without deprivation or yo-yo dieting.

Her recipes follow the sensible, balanced, effective model of Volumetrics, putting her revolutionary concept into real and tangible instructions for every meal. With this important new recipe collection, lavishly illustrated with forty color photographs, readers can enjoy home cooked meals that will help them shed pounds without sacrificing the pleasures of cooking and dining with friends and family.

“With its emphasis on . . . ‘high-volume, low-calorie foods, the Volumetrics Diet promises you’ll lose weight without starving. . . . Experts love its emphasis on whole foods and veggies and dieters love it for the wide range of fiber-packed recipes that keep you full for hours.” —Shape Magazine—Winner, Best Low-Calorie Diet

“Backed by the best research.” —USA Today

“The [consumer products rating guide] gave its highest honors to the ‘Volumetrics Eating Plan’ diet.” —New York Post

Barbara Rolls

Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., is professor of nutritional sciences and the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, where she heads the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior. A veteran nutrition researcher and past president of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and the Obesity Society, Dr. Rolls has been honored throughout her career with numerous awards, including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary membership in the American Dietetic Association. In 2010 she received the Obesity Society's highest honor, the George A. Bray Founders Award, and was elected to the American Society for Nutrition's Fellows Class of 2011. She is the author of more than 250 research articles and six books, including The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan and The Volumetrics Eating Plan. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Mindy Hermann, R.D., is a writer who specializes in collaborative projects on cooking, food, and nutrition with researchers, health professionals, and chefs. The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet is her tenth book. She lives in Mount Kisco, New York.

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