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by Susan Powter (Author)
Stop the Insanity!, Susan Powter's first bestselling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet-and-fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, is Sober...and Staying That Way, Susan once again shares a practical and proven program: the missing link in the treatment for alcoholism. This book isn't written just for alcoholics. It is written for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all. Alcoholism is the number-one killer of young adults in the United States, and the third-largest killer in our country. If you are interested in the missing link, you must: * Make the alcoholism-and-disease connection * Understand the biochemistry of alcoholics * Make the political, profit, and powerful lobby connections to you and your sobriety * Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs You will be able to: * Heal the damage that's been done * Support the biochemical environment for sobriety * Balance your glucose-deprived brain Sober...and Staying That Way will show you how to get away forever from the shame-based sobriety programs, and how to work toward integrating nearly four decades of well-established research with information that is now available to you and to those you love for the treatment of the disease of alcoholism.
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Stop the Insanity!, Susan Powter's first bestselling book, changed the way millions of people look at the diet-and-fitness industry and helped them get lean, strong, and healthy. Now, in Sober . . . and Staying That Way, Susan once again shares a practical and proven program: the missing link in the treatment for alcoholism.
This book isn't written just for alcoholics. It is written for everyone who wants to participate in the solution to a problem that affects us all. Alcoholism is the number-one killer of young adults in the United States, and the third-largest killer in our country. If you are interested in the missing link, you must:
-- Make the alcoholism-and-disease connection
-- Understand the biochemistry of alcoholics
-- Make the political, profit, and powerful lobby connections to you and your sobriety
-- Wipe out the morality, weakness-of-will, and powerlessness thinking of current recovery programs
You will be able to:
-- Heal the damage that's been done
-- Support the biochemical environment for sobriety
-- Balance your glucose-deprived brain
Sober . . . and Staying That Way will show you how to get away forever from the shame-based sobriety programs, and how to work toward integrating nearly four decades of well-established research with information that is now available to you and to those you love for the treatment of the disease of alcoholism.
Author Biography
Susan Powter is an Australian born American motivational speaker, nutritionist, personal trainer, and author, three-time New York Times bestselling author, AOL's third largest seller in TV history, and the woman dubbed "the Lenny Bruce of Wellness" by Shape magazine, who rose to fame in the 1990s with her catchphrase "Stop the Insanity!", which was the centerpiece of her weight loss infomercial. She hosted her own talk show The Susan Powter Show in the 1990s.
