The U.S. News and World Report Article
The following article by Anna Mulrine entitled, “A Godly Approach to Weight Loss” was published in U.S. News and World Report. Below are excerpts from that article.
Most people don’t associate religious devotion with weight loss. Gwen Shamblin, a Tennessee dietician, does. She’s the author of a new book, The Weigh Down Diet, which teaches that “head hunger,” the urge to eat even when the bodydoesn’t need food, is really a “spiritual hunger.”…
…Christian diet programs are growing fast. Shamblin organized her first support group in 1986 in a Memphis strip mall; today there are over 10,000 Weigh Down workshops with a quarter of a million participants who meet in churches across the country…
…Shamblin has an answer when her followers feel the urge to snack: “I say, ‘Chew on this’–and I hand them a Bible.”
