LAUREL MELLIN
(Expert # 50)Laurel Mellin Quick Facts
Main Areas: Personal Growth; Happiness; Weight Loss
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Author; Medical School Professor; Obesity Expert.
n- rofit Affiliation: The Institute for Health Solutions
mic Affiliation: University of California, San Franciscour l Mellin BiographyMellin developed The Solution, a scientifically p
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The Pathway, goes to the roots of not just one of the
mon excesses but all of them: overeating, overspending, overworking,
ng too much, and smoking, as well as the softer excesses like people-
g, rescuing others, putting up walls, and thinking too much. Mellin, who
plied this method to weight loss, is an associate clinical professor of family
mmunity medicine and pediatrics at the University of California, San
Francisco School of Medicine.
e olution method is based on the scientific literature that since 1940 has shown
the roots of excessive behaviors, other than genetics, is the need for two
v asic internal skills: self-nurturing and effective limits. Mastering t
skills changes nearly every aspect of life. The first ti
skills, they immediately shift their emotional state fro
their drive for another cookie, drink, or spending spree fades. However, the state
of balance does not last. For emotional balance is a product of the feeling brain
and the feeling brain only chances with practice. However, as people stay on the
“pathway” of using these skills, their personal balance becomes spontaneous and
lasting. They typically experience a Solution, that is, freedom from all the
excessive appetites and an abundance of all the rewards of a happy, healthy life
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The method is so simple that Mellin first taught it to children and so powerful tha
Health magazine named it as one of the top ten medical advances of 2000.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of
Illinois, Chicago have shown that users of The Solution, on average, feel healthier