dr.Anne plan MANUAL & PRACTICE: The Handbook for Good Health, Happiness and Weight Control

How healthy people stay healthy-- lifelong weight control using just the hand as a measurer for portions. Also instructs the reader on how to find joyful exercise, and meditate for stress reduction. These features comprise the three Keys to good health, called: Apportion, Move and Silence.

Each Key has three Point chapters covering pertinant issues for that subject. Altogether there are nine Points, or nine chapters, comprising the dr.Anne Plan. The Manual, in the front part of this book, contains what one needs to learn to follow the Plan. A corresponding Practice self-help section towards the back of the book personalizes practical application, and directs readers to support groups or Practice Circles,

The unique feature, and the basic tenet of the entire eating plan, is to use the hand to measure portion sizes.This eliminates counting calories or grams, and using exchange tables. It's what separates the dr.Anne plan from all others. Flexible and adaptable, this Plan allows participants to eat what they want, when they want, and what everyone else is eating. It also, adapts to medically restricted diets.

Weight loss is maintained lifelong by continuing to follow the Plan guidelines. It becomes a way of life for those who want to stay healthy and slim.

Started in 1980 it was the first and only well-balanced, food based, portion control lifestyle approach to weight control using just the hand as a measurer. Based on National Institutes of Health studies of good health practices fostering longevity.

An expert on living well: Ph.D. epidemiology from U.C. Berkeley, M.A. psychology from Smith College. Co-investigator of a National Institute of Health lifestyle study. Harvard University researcher. National appearances: Regis, Dinah, John Davidson, Alive & Well; Coast to Coast and over 100 radio shows.Created a lifestyle change program, well-balanced and easy to follow, that promotes good health and weight control. Rarely does one find a public health researcher in the nutrition field for over 40 years with the passion to develop a simple program for good health and weight control. Dr.Anne is this person. Previously she worked in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard University with famed nutritionist Dr. Jean Mayer. She was co-investigator for the NIH Institute of Health Research study of lifestyle impact on well-being. And she was appointed a member of the CA Governor's Council on Wellness & Physical Fitness (during Gov. Jerry Brown's first term). In private practice, Dr. Anne was a nutritional consultant for the Rancho Valencia Resort in Rancho Santa Fe, CA and was Director of the Olympic Hotel health program. She is the Founder of the nonprofit dr.Anne Association with a mission is to teach people how to eat in moderation and keep their weight under control using a handy visual measure. She was instrumental in creating the National Screen Actor's Guild Health Care Safety Net Fair and for many years donated her expertise and time there in Hollywood.

Smith College graduate and certified Integrative Health Practitioner. Private coaching for those interested in lifestyle change and healthier lifestyles.