Slimming fast means shedding kilos immediately and quickly. Slimming effectively means getting your figure back while still enjoying food, and without losing your health. In this book, Jacques Fricker shows how to reconcile weight-loss with good health by: - choosing foods that will enable you to burn excess fat, without feeling hunger and without harming your health, - balancing your meals, - learning to stabilise your new weight, - sharing proper meals with family and friends and leading a normal life. This new, fully revised edition incorporates the latest findings in medical research on nutrition. Here, finally, is an easy-to-follow weight-loss programme that works — without banishing pleasure or ruining your health. As an added bonus, this new edition of Dr. Fricker's diet includes more desserts and sweets than the earlier version.

Jacques Fricker is a physician specialising in nutrition, at Hôpital Bichat, in Paris, and a consultant for the Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments (Afssa). For many years, he was a research fellow at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM).

He is the author of many best-selling books on nutrition and slimming, including the highly popular Guide du bien maigrir. His other works are: La Cuisine du bien maigrir (1997); Le Guide de l'alimentation de l'enfant (1998, with A.M. Dartois and M. du Fraysseix); Maigrir en grande forme (1999); Desserts en liberté (1999, with P. Conticini); Le Régime sur mesure (2001); Le Nouveau Guide du bien maigrir (2002); Bien manger pour être au top (2002); Etre mince, en bonne santé et bien dans sa peau (2004); Manger pour bien maigir (2005).