Americans try one quick-remedy diet after another from low fat to low carb with mixed and often short-lived results. 'Dr. Ann's 10-Step Diet' gives readers a plan they can sink their teeth into permanently. Combining her highly regarded nutritional expertise with real-world sensibility, Dr. Ann provides a straightforward, no nonsense strategy for attaining and maintaining weight loss that simultaneously provides powerful protection against our nation's most common and dreaded chronic diseases. Nutritionally cutting edge, yet refreshingly back to basics, Dr. Ann's 10-Step Diet teaches readers exactly how to harness the extraordinary power the right carbohydrates, the right fats, and the right proteins provide as an effective means to lose weight for good and feel good for life. She states that the results of her surprisingly simple plan are permanent because her recommendations are "realistic, flexible and comprehensive."