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'Facts' About Weight Loss That Are Wrong

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With the food-centric holiday season behind us, many of us would like to trim down a bit. Articles and studies about weight control are everywhere. But our returning metabolic specialist, Dr. Reza Yavari, says that most of the top ten weight loss tips are incorrect. You've heard a calorie is a calorie is a calorie? Not so much, according to Yavari.

Miracle drugs for weight loss? No such thing. Not even the ones mentioned on your favorite "legitimate" TV show.

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GUEST:

  • Reza Yavari is on the clinical faculty at Yale and a trained endocrinologist. His practice, Beyond Care, combines cutting edge medicine with spa-like treatments in offices located in Madison and Trumbull, Conn. Yavari's 2007 book was called It Must Be My Metabolism.

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Lori MackJonathan McNicol, and Marian Roy contributed to this show.

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