What other diets have such a track record for
helping people control their appetites long enough to create major calorie
deficits and
lose that kind of weight (without eating up massive amounts of muscle and
looking like a
saggy skin bag)?

The author (John Roger Williams, (?, I don't recall, former zoology professor at
UT-Austin)) of Nutrition Against Disease suggests that our diet directly affects
the brain's appestat, which controls our desires to eat.  A healthy appestat
will signal us to stop eating when we're full, and conversely, an unhealthy
appestat will function in a variety of ways, including not eating at all, to
eating everything in sight with no awareness of doing so.


Nita