This is an updated version of the book I wrote ten years ago to help as many people as I could to lose weight. I felt certain thenтАФand continue to do soтАФthat the widespread dissemination of misinformation about what constitutes a healthy diet had caused that epidemic of weight gain in this country. The book made a greater impact than anyone might have predicted. Its sales exceeded ten million copies, and it was the number oneselling diet and health book in the U.S. for nearly five years. In fact, it has been the all-time top seller in its field. Certainly of the millions of people whoтАЩve read it, a large percentage followed its precepts, lost weight, kept it off and decisively improved their health. What you hold in your hands is a thoroughly rewritten version of that work. Having listened with care to the people who followed my weight control program, IтАЩve clarified and improved the тАЬdo-abilityтАЭ of the practical chapters of this book. IтАЩve added many new case histories and a horde of new and improved recipes. Finally, IтАЩve incorporated information on the recent upsurge of scientific evidence. We had it right ten years ago, but now we have twice as much research to confirm the nutritional approach championed by New Diet Revolution.