The world has gone diet mad – more than three-quarters of us equate being happy with being slim and almost of all of us are counting the calories. But this is the reality check: 24 million adults in the UK are overweight and 25 per cent of us are clinically obese, while 5 per cent are dangerously underweight. With a new celebrity diet published every week, it's hard to know which way to turn. How exactly can we take control of our weight? Fear not, for Dr Christian Jessen is here to help. Exploring why we are obsessed by weight and body image, his practical, down-to-earth advice will help us: • understand why it is so dangerous to be supersize or superskinny• identify our personal eating triggers• conquer our individual food hang-ups• change our emotional relationship with food forever.Detailed food facts plus a delicious selection of lean recipes show us how to cook healthily at home, and there's also an ‘Extra Helpings’ chapter from Gillian McKeith to lift the lid on the country’s most popular meals and show us how making the right food choices means we can eat more not less. Once we know just how much our wellbeing – and our shape – depends on eating a healthy, balanced diet, the easier it becomes. It is quite simple.

Eating well is good for us, eating well is pleasurable and we all need food. So go on – enjoy it!.