How to Lose Weight and Keep It Off

The book starts with a detailed description of the optimal way to lose weight and information on how to keep it off. However, you are strongly advised to read the subsequent chapters as referenced in Chapter 1. The author has noted that his patients find it both helpful and liberating to have an understanding of the regulation of body weight, of the causes of obesity, the health problems that obesity causes and the biological mechanisms that make it difficult to maintain weight loss.

All of the information provided in this book is backed by published scientific evidence. References are provided at the end of the book that can be freely accessed through searchable medical databases such as PubMed or Google Scholar. For the lay reader, much of what is written in scientific articles may be overly technical, however many can be helped in the interpretation and meaning of the information by their family doctor who will play a key role in their weight loss journey.

Joseph Proietto graduated from the University of Melbourne as MB BS in 1973. In 1985, he was awarded a PhD from the same university. In 1982, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He did his postdoctoral studies in Geneva, Switzerland in the Laboratoires de Recherche Metaboliques. On his return to Australia, he worked in the University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. While there, he was awarded a 5-year Wellcome Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust in the UK and was eventually promoted to Professor with a personal Chair. He then moved to the Department of Medicine at the Austin Hospital as the inaugural Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation Professor of Medicine, a position he held until his retirement in 2014. He was awarded the Kellion Award of the Australian Diabetes Society for outstanding contribution to diabetes research and The Willendorf Award of World Obesity for his outstanding contribution to obesity research.