Fat Nation Skinny Pills
By Paul Rivas
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Wish you could lose weight without counting calories, excessive exercise, or giving up favorite foods? Dr. Paul Rivas is a leading weight loss specialist who has helped over 70,000 people lose weight safely. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and more. In this straightforward book, he will guide you through the options of medical weight loss.
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Fat Nation Skinny Pills - Paul Rivas
FAT NATION
SKINNY PILLS
Have you tried everything to lose weight and failed? This book is your prescription!
FAT NATION
SKINNY PILLS
Why Everything You Were Ever Told About Weight Loss Is Wrong.
Paul M. Rivas with Elizabeth Herbert
Copyright © 2012 by Paul M. Rivas with Elizabeth Herbert
Smashwords Edition
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Note: This book is not intended to take the place of a physician. Readers are advised to seek out a medical professional to treat their weight. Neither the publisher nor author take any responsibility for any possible consequences from treatment, actions, supplements, diet, or exercise to any person reading or following the information provided in this book.
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Contents
Beginnings
Prologue
1. How Big
is Your Brain?
2. Changing Your Brain’s Mind
3. Weighing
in on Diet Pills
4. Survival of the Fattest
5. If You Hate To Exercise...
6. I Hardly Eat Anything Now!
7. Long-Term Maintenance
F.A.Q.’s
Acknowledgements
Dedicated to my entire staff of hardworking, committed professionals. Thanks for hanging with me through the good times and the bad.
Beginnings
I exited the University of Maryland Medical School in 1980 with my medical degree proudly held in my hands. I had excelled in school and been at the top of my class, and I had enormous enthusiasm for my field. Interestingly, at the time of my studies, using medications to treat weight loss wasn’t discussed. There was, in fact, no mention, good, bad or otherwise, of weight loss drugs by either my professors or colleagues. I suppose it might have been simply understood that these agents weren’t to be used, although I can’t say for sure. Regardless, I exited my residency armed with a tacit, negative attitude toward any suggestion of weight loss medications. I soon entered private practice in a small office in a quiet, suburban area that I shared with another physician and began to build my career in medicine.
I’ll never forget the day when a pharmaceutical representative innocently entered my office and engaged me in conversation about some new products. He then asked me if I had ever chanced to try the weight loss drug, Tenuate, which was produced by his company and which many doctors were