The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail And How To Make Yours Work
Book by Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Study Guide by Susan Burke March, MS, RDN, LDN, CDE
Edited by Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, CSP, RDN

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OVERVIEW AND INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the pre-approved, accredited CPE program for The Diet Fix--Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work. The program consists of a book of the same title by Yoni Freedhoff, MD and this study guide. This CPE program is designed to help you guide your clients/patients toward a healthier relationship with food, and to adopt lifestyle behaviors that can translate into achieving permanent weight loss and better health. It is also designed to help you earn 25 Level 2, Continuing Professional Education Units (CPEUs). To get the most out of this CPE program, it is suggested that you adhere to the following four steps:

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this CPE program you will be better able to:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: It's Not Your Fault!

CHAPTER 1 The Hidden Secret to Weight Loss: Weed, Seed, and Feed Your Inner Garden
CHAPTER 2 Dysbiosis-Gut Microbe Imbalance:Seven Pathways to Weight Gain and Illness
CHAPTER 3 The Gut Balance Revolution Overview
CHAPTER 4 Phase 1: Reboot-Weed Your Inner Garden and Rev Up Your Metabolism
CHAPTER 5 Rev Up Your Metabolism with Dr. Gerry's Top 10 Superfoods for Phase 1
CHAPTER 6 Phase 2: Rebalance-Reseed and Fertilize Your Inner Garden
CHAPTER 7 Dr. Gerry's Top 10 Superfoods for Phase 2
CHAPTER 8 Phase 3: Renew-Keep Your Friendly Flora-and You-Healthy for Life
CHAPTER 9 Dr. Gerry's Top 10 Superfoods for Phase 3
CHAPTER 10 Living a Gut-Balancing Life
CHAPTER 11 The Gut Balance Revolution: Food Charts, Meal Plans, Shopping Lists, Recipes, and Other Tips on How to Eat on the Program

Conclusion: The Real Secret to Weight Loss
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, MD, CCFP, graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, where he received the Betty Stewart Sisam Award as the graduating student who "has shown the greatest human understanding and care for the welfare and health of patients."
Widely considered to be Canada's most outspoken obesity expert, Dr. Freedhoff writes a weekly column in U.S. News & World Report's online Eat + Run edition that is regularly the most read on the site, and he writes periodically on issues of health, weight management, and fitness for a variety of publications, including Psychology Today and the Huffington Post. He also posts daily on his award-winning blog Weighty Matters.
He is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa and a sought-after international speaker.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE STUDY GUIDE

Over the past 25 years Susan Burke March, MEd, RDN, LDN, CDE has made her personal passion for healthy living and smart weight management her vocation.
Susan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in nutrition and education, is a certified diabetes educator, and holds advanced certificates of training in Adult Weight Management (Levels 1 and 2) and Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. She served as Chief Clinical Nutrition Manager at Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens, New York.
Susan is the former Vice President of Nutrition and Chief Nutritionist for eDiets.com, a leader in the online weight management program arena. She led the nutritional development of a roster of healthy weight programs, and spearheaded development of unprecedented features and services that today are commonplace in the online weight management industry.
Susan served on the board of the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and as a spokesperson for the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Susan is the author of the practical and informative book Making Weight Control Second Nature: Living Thin Naturally (Mansion Grove House, 2009) and the accompanying 26-CPEU study guide published by Wolf Rinke Associates (2010).
She and her husband Ken are currently living and studying Spanish in Ecuador's third largest city, Cuenca. Susan is the Nutrition and Health Columnist for CuencaHighlife.com, and blogs on SecondNatureNutrition.com about Ecuadorian food, health issues, and nutrition news for the expat community.

ABOUT THE EDITOR OF THE STUDY GUIDE

Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RDN, CSP is the president and founder of Wolf Rinke Associates, a company that has provided high quality CPE programs to nutrition professionals since 1990.
He earned a BS at Drexel University, a MS at Iowa State University, a PhD in Continuing and Vocational Education (Adult Ed) at the University of Wisconsin, and interned at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He participated in a test item writer workshop sponsored by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
Wolf is a past Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management & Technology, University of Maryland, and a former Adjunct Faculty Member, School of Continuing Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
He is the past president of the DC Dietetic Association and has been honored by the Academy with the Award for Excellence in the practice of Management; the Outstanding Dietitian of the Year Award; the Outstanding Service Award; and has delivered the Lenna Frances Cooper Lecture.
At the Academy he has served in numerous leadership roles including Chair, Scholarship Committee, DBC; Chair, Communication Committee, CDR; Chair, Area Coordinating Committee, COE; Chair, COE, and member of Resource for Education Programs Committee; Honors Committee; CDR, Licensure Panel and Ethical Practices Task Force; CDR; House of Delegates and Board of Directors.
He is the author of more than 500 articles, numerous CPE home-study programs, several popular books, and the free monthly eNewsletter "Read and Grow Rich" written specifically for savvy Nutrition Professionals like YOU! Subscribe now at www.easyCPEcredits.com--you'll be glad you did!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to the following individuals for their careful review of this CPE program:

Margaret Wertheim Eich, MS, RD, CSO
Registered Dietitian
Madison, WI

Kimberly Juul, RD, LD, NASM-CPT
Registered Dietitian, Certified Personal Trainer
Cypress, TX

Gita Patel, MS, RDN, CDE, CLT, LD
Author, Consultant, Speaker
Etna, NH