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Article: Testing Dieting Plan on Himself, K-State Engineering Professor Uses Mathematical Proof To Maximize Weight Loss Efficiency and Publishes Book 'The When Diet'.
- Article from:
- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- November 21, 2009
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Leave it to an industrial systems engineer to look at shedding a few pounds as a problem that can be solved by maximizing efficiency (see also Weight Loss).
That's how a Kansas State University professor came to write a diet book, "The When Diet: Mathematically Optimizing Eating and Exercise for Weight Loss," published in October by Ithaca Press.
"I never, ever intended to write a diet book," said Todd Easton, a K-State associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering.
Easton said he began to think about dieting as a matter of efficiency while teaching a lesson on bottlenecks in a simulation class.
"By the time ...