The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories by Barbara Rolls

The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories by Barbara Rolls

Ranked as one of the best diet plans by US News & World Report: A plan to lose weight that puts the focus on feeling sated and satisfied with fewer calories; author Barbara Rolls has earned the author the Obesity Society Presidential Medal of Distinction for her work in research and outreach. 

From nutrition expert and author of the hugely popular The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan, comes an illustrated eating plan based on her breakthrough approach to weight loss

Almost four years after it first appeared, Dr. Rolls' landmark Volumetrics is still selling, rapidly approaching 150,000 copies in combined editions. Now, Dr. Rolls offers a valuable collection of 125 Volumetrics recipes, along with a menu planner that will enable her readers to quit "dieting" for good, and lose excess pounds without deprivation or yo-yo weight loss/gain.

Her recipes follow the sensible, balanced, effective model of Volumetrics, putting her revolutionary concept into real and tangible instructions for every meal. With this important new recipe collection, lavishly illustrated with 40 color photographs, readers can enjoy home cooked meals that will help them shed pounds without sacrificing the pleasures of cooking and dining with friends and family.

Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., is a nutrition science professor and the Helen A. She is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior at Pennsylvania State University, where she holds the Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences. Dr. Rolls has received multiple distinctions throughout her career, including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary membership in the American Dietetic Association. She is a veteran nutrition researcher and past president of both the Society for the Research of Ingestive Behavior and the Obesity Society. She was awarded the George A. Smith Medal by the Obesity Society in 2010. In 2011, he received the Bray Founders Award and was inducted into the American Society for Nutrition's Fellows Class.

She has written over 250 research papers and six books, including The Volumetrics Weight Management Plan and The Volumetrics Food Plan. Mindy Hermann, R.D., is a writer who specializes in collaborative projects on cooking, food, and nutrition with researchers, health experts, and chefs. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania. Her tenth book is The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet. She is a resident of Mount Kisco, New York.