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.