The key to putting an end to dangerous “yo-yo” dieting may be to “diet smart, not hard.” Dr. Michael Roizen provides an easy plan of action to re-program the body and train the brain for lifelong weight and waist management in You On A Diet with Dr. Michael Roizen.

In his second public television special — his first was The Real Age Makeover — Dr. Roizen explains how the body’s fat-storing and fat-burning systems work. In understanding how the nervous, digestive and muscular systems interact, viewers learn to train their brain to keep themselves full.

You On A Diet, based on Dr. Roizen’s best-selling book, offers information intended to help viewers “diet smart, not hard.” The special reveals food choices that help keep dieters on track and what to look for on the labels of food that will sabotage weight loss. Insight into the importance of reducing waist size is provided, along with demonstrations of a helpful exercise routine that takes very little time and money.

In a presentation taped before a studio audience, Dr. Roizen uses humor to emphasize key points of maintaining healthy body weight and waistlines, including the dumping of bad foods from a refrigerator and stomping on a candy bar. He also introduces four people who have lost weight and normalized their blood pressure and cholesterol through this diet program.

Dr. Michael F. Roizen is a professor of anesthesiology and internal medicine and chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic. He is the author of You on a Diet, The RealAge Makeover, which also became a PBS special, and two other books, You: The Owner’s Manual and You: The Smart Patient.