<p><strong>The world would have you believe that losing weight is easy, but the truth is, in many cases, you''re being fed a generous helping of falsehoods and misguided dieting advice.</strong></p><p><span>The media, celebrities, weight-loss gurus, and the Internet bombard society with recommendations about how to shed unwanted pounds: Count calories, cut carbs, exercise more, skip meals, drink more water, pop a pill. Yet as more people try diligently to follow this advice, waistlines continue to expand.</span></p><p><span>In </span><em>Supersized Lies</em><span>, Robert J. Davis, PhD, aka The Healthy Skeptic, shows you why this inability to lose weight isn''t your fault as he reveals how hype, half-truths, and unproven solutions have steered you into fruitless quests that inflict emotional and physical harm