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Where to Turn After Biggest Loser Letdown: Bert Herring, MD Announces Appetite Correction/Fast-5 Survey Results
[May 17, 2016]

Where to Turn After Biggest Loser Letdown: Bert Herring, MD Announces Appetite Correction/Fast-5 Survey Results


Bert Herring, MD, leader of Appetite Correction (AC)/Fast-5 lifestyle adopters worldwide, today announces the release of 2016 survey results and offers hope for reversing the obesity epidemic. The announcement highlights ten years of user experience with Dr. Bert's program starting in 2005 when he made his book, The Fast-5 Diet and the Fast-5 Lifestyle, available as a free download.

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"For years, I've guided thousands who have achieved long-term weight loss-20 to 200+ pounds-living the AC/Fast-5 lifestyle," said Dr. Bert. "Over 300 people answered the survey and routinely called the lifestyle easy and simple." The words "easy" and "simple" contrast sharply with "heroic struggle," Dr. Donna Ryan's description regarding patients undergoing treatment for obesity, according to the American Heart Association.



Easy, simple weight management sounds appealing, but it falls short if those who adopt it don't lose weight. Dr. Bert offers reason for optimism, "Respondents who've lived the AC/Fast-5 lifestyle for 1-10 years reported an average loss of:

  • 53 pounds and
  • 23% of original body weight.

To compare these results with best-case, long-term outcomes for commercial weight-loss programs, I analyzed a 2015 study referenced by Johns Hopkins Medicine and a 2009 study. We're talking about an average weight loss of:


  • 20 pounds and
  • 10% of original body weight."

The recent NY Times Biggest Loser story quoted Dr. Joseph Proietto, a University of Melbourne obesity researcher, who blamed hunger for weight loss failures, "The only way to maintain weight loss is to be hungry all the time. We desperately need agents that will suppress hunger."

"The agent he's looking for exists. It's not a drug. It's called an appetite correcting eating schedule (ACES). Correcting appetite means you don't have to fight it. This survey translates real-world experiences into a guide for developing strategies to reverse the obesity trend," Dr. Bert responded.

About Bert Herring, MD

Through his pioneering Fast-5 work that began in 1995, Dr. Bert, a former Navy/Marine Corps medical officer and NIH researcher, made a landmark appetite correction discovery. It led him to write AC: The Power of Appetite Correction and develop the AC ToolBook as guides to help people reset appetite and gain power, control and freedom over food.


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