This is not your standard diet and exercise book. There are tips that cover these areas and also how to live a healthier life. The book also focuses on Dr. Snodgrass' 30 plus years experience dealing with patient care. Specifically, Dr. Snodgrass allows the reader to go to the operating room with him to see first hand how obesity negatively affects patient care. Overweight and obese patients have an increased risk for complications, serious illnesses, and death when they become patients. Dr. Snodgrass shows you why and helps the reader learn how to avoid these potential life-threatening problems. He takes you inside the operating room and describes in graphic detail his actual caseloads, so you can see for yourself. This is a must read for people, because like it or not, we all will become patients at some time during our lives.

LET'S GO TO THE O.R.!