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    Fat Nation Skinny Pills
    Fat Nation Skinny Pills
    Fat Nation Skinny Pills
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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Rivas
    Release dateOct 23, 2012
    ISBN9780615720463
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      Book preview

      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

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Please do not participate in or encourage the piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions.

      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

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