Are you one of the many Americans who’ve tried diet after diet, just to end up putting the weight you’ve lost back on? Dr. Ian K. Smith, known for “The Fat Smash Diet” book and for being the diet expert on VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club,” has designed the “Four Day Diet,” a new weight-loss plan that he says helps you overcome the mental obstacles to weight loss by switching the foods you eat every four days.
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James Patterson and Hal Friedman have written a book called “Against Medical Advice,” about the true story of Cory Friedman and his struggle to find out what was medically wrong with him.
At age 5, he woke up with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck and from then on he and his family went from specialist to specialist trying to figure out the problem. After the family deals with the medical establishment for decades, its battle ends with Read the rest of this entry »

. In his new memoir, “The End of My Addiction,” Ameisen offers insight into his personal story and puts out a call to action to research the drug he believes ended his alcohol dependency.
Read an excerpt of his book below.
In the depths of a desperate struggle with alcoholism, I found a medicine, baclofen, that both freed me of all craving for alcohol and resolved the underlying disorder, overwhelming anxiety, that made me vulnerable to addiction.
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