Have you ever unsuccessfully tried low-calorie dieting? There are very good reasons why it doesn't work but somehow they remain a secret... After more than 35 years of clinical practice & helping many thousands of patients to live at their ideal weight Dr John Mansfield shares his unique approach: weight gain is a condition that has specific causes that can be identified & tackled & which will be individual to YOU. Discover:
- why there is no one-size-fits-all diet that works in the long term
- how low-calorie & low-fat dieting contributes to weight gain
- how refined carbohydrates result in 'hyperinsulinaemia' & weight problems
- how gut yeasts make matters worse
- how to tell if your thyroid is also part of the problem
- most importantly the significance of individual food sensitivities: how to identify & tackle what is specific to YOU





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Start Six Sigma Fast-And Achieve Powerful Business Benefits Within Months This book offers leaders a proven turnkey approach to launching a Six Sigma initiative in 90 days & using it to transform your company within a year. Drawing on their experience with fifty Six Sigma programs at companies ranging from Allied Signal to Motorola Stephen A. Zinkgraf & his contributors show how to rapidly align people strategy processes & customers in support of your initiative-and gain powerful momentum for success. Youll walk through preparing for an enterprise-wide launch executing it flawlessly & establishing a foundation for achieving sustainable results over the long term. Zinkgrafs techniques roadmaps & milestones can help you quickly launch any complex change initiative-even those unrelated to Six Sigma. Taken together they offer a complete framework for driving & managing change: the 1 core competency for twenty-first century executives. Coverage

Includes:: * Leading Six Sigma: roadmaps milestones & techniques for delivering fast sustainable gains * Effectively preparing flawlessly executing & extending your impact for years to come * Identifying opportunities building teams choosing partners defining metrics managing risk & much more * Discovering best practices from over fifty successful launches: techniques that work with any large-scale change initiative Discover how to get dramatic business results from Six Sigma faster than you ever thought possible & use Six Sigma to drive transformative change for years to come. Writing for executives & initiative leaders Stephen A. Zinkgraf presents a high-speed methodology for linking Six Sigma to business strategy planning & executing a flawless launch aligning the entire enterprise behind performance improvement & achieving powerful results in both the short & long term. Zinkgraf helped lead Larry Bossidys pioneering Six Sigma program at Allied Signal-he & his team have participated in more than fifty Six Sigma launches. In this book he reveals best practices for leading every step of the process. Youll learn how to identify prioritize & charter breakthrough projects...choose the right partners...define roles...build & train teams...mitigate risks...implement effective metrics...and evangelize" the organization. Then after youve launched Zinkgraf shows how to improve your program-and use HR IT & other business levers to extend your impact. Simply put if youre leading Six Sigma this books Six Sigma roadmaps milestones & techniques represent the fastest route to the most business value. * Master the lessons of the worlds best Six Sigma deployments Learn from the experiences of Allied Signal Motorola 3M & fifty other Six Sigma leaders * Link Six Sigma directly to your balance sheet Set aggressive measurable business goals-and achieve them * Plan & execute a flawless launch-within 90 days! Define priorities organize teams choose partners structure enterprise-wide deployments & more * Sustain Six Sigma for the long term Using a clearly defined leadership roadmap align organization structure compensation succession planning IT resources & more * Avoid the classic Six Sigma "failure modes" Why Six Sigma projects fail & how to keep it from happening to you Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii About the Author xix Contributors List xxi PARTI: PRE-LAUNCH 1 Chapter 1: Six Sigma-The Initiative the Deployment the Technology 3 Chapter 2: The True Nature of Six Sigma: The Business Model 17 Chapter 3: Six Sigma Launch Philosophy 37 Chapter 4: Getting Early Support: Selecting a Six Sigma Provider 55 Chapter 5: Strategy: The Alignment of External Realities Setting Measurable Goals & Internal Actions 69 Chapter 6: Defining the Six Sigma Program Expectations & Metrics 87 PART II: THE FIRST 90 DAYS 103 Chapter 7: Defining the Six Sigma Project Scope 105 Chapter 8: Defining th"

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This is the fast & easy way to understand & implement Six Sigma. The world's largest & most profitable companies
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Innovative practical & inspiring Six Steps to Songwriting Success" presents a surefire step-by-step approach to mastering the elements consistently found in hit songs. Jason Blume a songwriter with the rare distinction of having had songs on the Country Pop & R&B charts simultaneously has packed this book with key aids like the three-step writing technique used by the pros; lyric melody & demo checklists; & tools for self-evaluation
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Traditional thinking habits of businesses need to be greatly enhanced. Analysis & judgement are no longer enough to make important corporate decisions; you can analyse the past but you have to design the future. Corporate decisions depend on values. Disputes & conflicts often arise because of a clash of those values; each party in the dispute wants to pursue its own values often at the expense of the other party. It is therefore essential that companies managers & employees have a full understanding of the values of everyone involved to design a way forward that benefits all parties. From the bestselling author of How to Have a Beautiful Mind & Six Thinking Hats this groundbreaking business book provides a basis for value assessment an essential tool in decision-making for 21st century corporations. De Bono demonstrates that values come into all areas of thinking behaviour & decision-making & outlines a framework to focus employees attention on a variety of values including human values organisational values cultural values & perceptual values. By introducing a scoring system to rate different values as strong sound weak or remote de Bono helps readers to prioritise & make executive decisions that count. ...

During the Great War many boys went straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world
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Six Weeks to OMG" is the New York bestselling diet book by Venice A. Fulton. " The diet that's changing diets". (" Metro"). " Move over Dr Dukan meet the OMG diet guru". (" The Times"). "" Six Weeks To OMG" is quickly becoming one of the top slimming books on the market". (" Daily Mail"). Before we get started let's test your knowledge: true or false?: skipping breakfast can be healthy; certain fruits instantly block fat loss; small frequent meals are damaging; cellulite can be massively reduced in everyone; juices & smoothies cause overeating; & exercise is more than just how much & how hard. They're all true. Using science psychology & uncommon sense you will learn how to lose up to 20 pounds of body fat in six weeks. His plan originally designed for A-List celeb clients proves that quick fixes don't work but quick improvements are still possible. No one is born fat or destined to have cellulite forever. & if you think you've failed on a diet before think again
- the diet failed. Because anyone with the correct information
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- can get skinny. & Venice A. Fulton will arm you with the necessary tools in " Six Weeks to OMG". Venice A. Fulton's expertise as a sports scientist helped formulate the ideal diet plan for his A-list clients producing fantastic & fast results. Now available for everyone you can also be as skinny as you choose to be. Venice is also a former writer for magazines including " Men's Health" & " Celebrity Bodies"."


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Divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded survived. CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages & failed to produce a male heir...ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty clever French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever...JANE SEYMOUR: the demure & submissive contrast to Anne Boleyns radical & vampish style...ANNE OF CLEVES: the mare of Flanders whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical beauty contest...CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king...CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him... In this dazzling study David Starkey gives us a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the womans point of view. Above all he establishes the interaction of the private & the public & demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy. ...

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life revealing each as a distinct & compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events & where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition treason & violence. ...