Krista Varady, PhD, associate professor of kinesiology and nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the author or coauthor of 45 scientific papers that have been published in Obesity, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and many other leading medical journals. She is also coauthor of The Every-Other-Day Diet.
Every year, 45 million American adults go on a diet. That’s not surprising when you consider that 180 million American…