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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Perigee hardcover edition as follows:
Johnson, James B., MD.
The alternate-day diet : turn on your skinny gene, shed the pounds, and live a longer and healthier life /
James B. Johnson with Donald R. Laub.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-399-15493-5
ISBN 978-0-698-14907-6 (eBook)
1. Reducing diets. 2. Nutrition—Genetic aspects. 3. Low-calorie diet.
I. Laub, Donald R. II. Title
RM222.2.J554 2008 2008005400
613.2'5—dc22
PUBLISHING HISTORY
G. P. Putnam’s Sons hardcover edition / April 2008
Perigee trade paperback edition / April 2009
Revised Perigee trade paperback edition / January 2014
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