Mayo Clinic diet book promotes healthy weight loss

By Kelley Luckstein

Confused by the myriad of diet books that promise to help you melt away those excess pounds to produce the body of a supermodel?

Scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have produced a weight-loss program based on clinical research and experience that they say will help people lose weight and keep it off permanently.

Dr. Donald Hensrud, a diet expert at the clinic and a co-author of "The Mayo Clinic Diet" spoke to Reuters about why the program is so effective, the research it is based on and what makes it different from all the other diet books.

Reuters, by Patricia Reaney, 1/1/10