Healthy Bytes
* Healthy Bytes... offers a fresh perspective on personal weight / health management. The book wields the twin innovations of Systems Thinking and information technology but in a form that's accessible to the general reader. The aim: (1) Help people better understand how the human energy and weight regulation system works, why it works that way, and how to better manage it; and (2) Give people the tools they need to finish the job.
• Emphasizing solutions that "fit," Healthy Bytes provides a suite of (customizable) "Mi" tools (downloadable from book's website) to help dieters do the three things that they need to do well to succeed: (1) Setting a realistic weight-loss goal; (2) determining the proper (individually-tailored) caloric deficit to achieve it; and (3) devising palatable and satisfying diets that can be sustained.
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Healthy Bytes
* Healthy Bytes... offers a fresh perspective on personal weight / health management. The book wields the twin innovations of Systems Thinking and information technology but in a form that's accessible to the general reader. The aim: (1) Help people better understand how the human energy and weight regulation system works, why it works that way, and how to better manage it; and (2) Give people the tools they need to finish the job.
• Emphasizing solutions that "fit," Healthy Bytes provides a suite of (customizable) "Mi" tools (downloadable from book's website) to help dieters do the three things that they need to do well to succeed: (1) Setting a realistic weight-loss goal; (2) determining the proper (individually-tailored) caloric deficit to achieve it; and (3) devising palatable and satisfying diets that can be sustained.
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Healthy Bytes

Healthy Bytes

by Jeffrey Self
Healthy Bytes

Healthy Bytes

by Jeffrey Self

Overview

* Healthy Bytes... offers a fresh perspective on personal weight / health management. The book wields the twin innovations of Systems Thinking and information technology but in a form that's accessible to the general reader. The aim: (1) Help people better understand how the human energy and weight regulation system works, why it works that way, and how to better manage it; and (2) Give people the tools they need to finish the job.
• Emphasizing solutions that "fit," Healthy Bytes provides a suite of (customizable) "Mi" tools (downloadable from book's website) to help dieters do the three things that they need to do well to succeed: (1) Setting a realistic weight-loss goal; (2) determining the proper (individually-tailored) caloric deficit to achieve it; and (3) devising palatable and satisfying diets that can be sustained.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781483565316
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 06/09/2016
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

• Dr. Tarek K.A. Hamid a a MIT trained system dynamicist with expertise in human metabolism and energy regulation. He is a professor of System Dynamics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Table of Contents

Part I A Rising Tide That's Lifting All Weights 1

1 The Heavy Burden of A Heavy-Weight 3

2 Unbalanced Act 14

3 Modern Environment… "Flintstones' Physiology" 27

4 Wrong Ideas 41

5 Step on U.P. 55

Part II We Can't Manage What We Don't Understand 65

6 Change your Mind 67

7 EUREKA: Insights into Human Energy and Weight Regulation Using a Simple - Bathtub-like - Model 72

8 Feedback: The Third Building Block 89

9 Human Energy Regulation: The "Complete Package" 98

10 Misperceiving Feedback May be Hazardous to your Health 113

11 Beyond Physiology… The Reward of Food 122

12 Americas Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study 134

13 Turning Vicious to Virtuous: Leveraging Feedback Thinking 167

14 Understanding is NOT Enough 175

Part III "Give us the Tools and We'll Finish the Job" 185

15 Prevention: The Best Buy… that's still a Hard Sell 187

16 Treatment: First and Foremost… Clear those Misconceptions 196

17 Work with your Body… Not against it: A Judo Metaphor 218

18 The Second Flowering 234

19 Mi Model: Devising Weight-Loss Strategies that Fit 239

20 Mi Volumetrics 274

21 Mi Analytics 297

22 Smarter Than We Think 303

References 306

Index 346

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