With an increasing proportion of the population considered to be overweight BEYOND DIETING is a timely and fresh approach to losing weight and living a happy healthy life. In lively and lucid language this books helps the reader to see how powerful attitudes and emotions are in the battle of the bulge. Linda Cochran brings together some key ideas on mind and spirit and the effects these have on the body from the Edgar Cayce readings. Linda Cochran's battle with weight began when she was a teenager. She openly shares the experiences of her triumphs and anguishes on the path of physical mental and spiritual wholeness. For three years as a newspaper columnist she counselled and encouraged her overweight readers with her common sense and humour that was born from her first hand experiences.