The Brown Bag Diet: Tips & Clues for dieters from the Pharmacist's notebook - Softcover

Erwin Posner holds a pharmacy degree from the University of Buffalo and a law degree from North Western California University. As a licensed pharmacist in his early career he supervised narcotic drug production at a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. He left manufacturing to join a chain of retail drug stores where he rose to become an operations director for the home district of his company. He later left to join another drug store chain where he became vice-president of administration in this 100 unit firm. Posner later founded Consumer Drug centers of Detroit, his own small chain of drug stores. Because he thought pharmacists could play a significant role in assisting patients who were trying to lose weight he began gathering notes about patrons in his drug store operations who were successful in their weight loss effort. He compiled his notes into a guidebook to enable pharmacists to better counsel their weight loss patients. Ultimately his effort developed into a book, "the Brown Bag Diet", written in language the average layman will find useful. This book is meant to be motivational. It allows the dieter to maximize his or her effort to stay on track with the diet program that works best. Posner stresses that radical crash programs generally do not have long lasting benefit but a change in the way the dieter thinks can result in lifelong proper weight and better health. The Brown Bag Diet is designed to facilitate this change of thinking.