Neither this eating plan nor any other program should be followed without first consulting a health care professional. If you have any special or medical conditions requiring attention, you should consult with your health care professional regularly regarding possible modifications of the program contained in this book. The author’s references to various products are for information purposes only and are not intended as an endorsement for those products from the author, her book, or the publisher. Statements made about products and descriptions of those products are accurate as of the writing of this book, November 2014.