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Loretta LaRoche is sick to death of diets and diet books.
Not a day goes by without an article appearing in the media that reveals some food that could be harmful or helpful to our health.
Food has become either demonic or divine.
We've forgotten how to be in "right relationship" with one of the greatest pleasures we have in life: eating.
As a result, we're fatter than ever and more stressed out about being fat!
In this humorous and informative book, Loretta cuts through the nonsense, disclosing the wisdom she has accumulated from "having gained and lost a tribe of people."
She also shares her expertise as an international stress consultant, former aerobics instructor, and owner of a wellness center.
Her eight surprising secrets for reducing weight and stress might surprise you as she leads you down the path of learning to eat well, moving with joy, and living a more balanced life.
Her greatest promise is that you will get into shape . . . and have fun while you're doing it!
Hardcover | $18.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4019-2157-6
Read an excerpt from Lighten UP!
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"Lighten Up! is vintage Loretta—hilarious and profound simultaneously. Read this and you'll laugh yourself thin!"
—Christiane Northrup, M.D., the best-selling author of The Secret Pleasures of Menopause and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
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"Loretta does a masterful job in helping us bust a gut while we attempt to lose ours.
The book is a treasure trove of humor, generous self-reports, and the latest in scientific information cobbled together in a funny flow.
We will all be lighter for it."
—John Ratey, M.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; co-author of Driven to Distraction; and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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"In her classic wise and witty style, Loretta LaRoche's Lighten Up! will help all kinds of people find a sensible and enjoyable way to get back to good health.
It gives people the commonsense solutions they need to begin to enjoy their meals and get healthy."
—Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., university professor and best-selling author of Strong Women Stay Young
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"People tend to lose their sense of humor when faced with the prospect of eating well and losing weight.
But I have to say that Loretta has done it again—she actually makes the topic fun. She helps you giggle while you lose your middle."
—Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., executive director, Domar Center for Mind/Body Health; and author of Be Happy Without Being Perfect
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LORETTA LaROCHE is an international stress management and humor consultant whose wit and irreverent humor has, for over 30 years, raised the humor potential in all of us.
She is on the Massachusetts General Hospital advisory council for anxiety and depression, and was recently awarded the National Humor Treasure Award.
Loretta writes a weekly newspaper column titled Get a Life.
She is also featured as a stress management expert on LLuminari.com, a community wellness Website, and www.Eons.com, a Website celebrating life on the flipside of age 50.
Loretta is founder and president of The Humor Potential, Inc, a company offering programs and products for lifestyle management.
Her special brand of optimistic psychology has an incontestable positive effect on the health of all who are exposed to her.
Organizations worldwide use Loretta's prescription for laughter to manage stress in the workplace and improve morale.
Loretta's energetic meeting openings, trainings, and keynotes serve to improve learning skills and put a room in an enthusiastic frame of mind.
Clients such as IBM, The New York Times, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and NASA, just to name a few, have used her material to defeat stress in the workplace.
She is also a well-recognized TV personality on PBS and best-selling author.
She has had six one-woman television specials air on 80 PBS stations across the country. Her seventh begins airing nationally in August 2009.
She has been nominated for local and prime-time Emmy Awards, and has appeared on CNN, ABC, and NBC affiliates.
Loretta has authored eight books: The Joy Journal;, Happy Talk; Relax: You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left; Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal; Life Is Short—Wear Your Party Pants; Squeeze the Day; Juicy Living, Juicy Aging (the first edition was previously published under the title Kick Up Your Heels . . . Before You're Too Short to Wear Them); and her latest book, Lighten UP!
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