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on Health, Dieting and Cooking |
HEALTHY AND HAPPY
Slim for Life
This book outlines a system to help readers lose weight and achieve a healthier lifestyle. The author includes work-out regimens, detox plans, tips on motivation, and healthy recipes. |
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SLIM SIPPINGS
The Ultimate Tea Diet
Healthy, helpful advice on the wonders of tea, straight from the source. Beverly Hills tea guru Mark Ukra boils down the benefits of a diet powered by brews. |
GET THE SKINNY
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
A follow-up to the bestselling Skinny
Bitch, this sassy cookbook offers vegan recipes—and a strong helping of humor—by the dozen.
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KEEPING IT REAL
The Kosher Billionaire's Secret Recipe
Despite her book’s gloss and glamour shots, Stacy Cohen advocates restraint as the key to living a healthy, spiritual life while keeping kosher. She also includes delicious kosher recipes. |
GATHER 'ROUND THE GREEN STUFF
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
Seeking to encourage people to include more “plant-based foods” in their diets, Mark Bittman has compiled an incredibly thorough, if not especially innovative, guide to vegetarian eating. |
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WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan attempts to combat America’s “national eating disorder” by investigating where our food really comes from. The results may inspire you to seek out fresher fare.
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EAT
YOUR VEGGIES
Melissa's
Great Book of Produce
Cathy
Thomas' book guides readers through the wild
world of exotic fruits and vegetables, providing
tips for preparing rare finds like the lizard-green
cherimoya or candy cane beets. |
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ALL-NATURAL
BANDWAGON
Organic,
Inc.
The
rise of mass-produced organic products has prompted
author Samuel Fromartz to examine the booming
trend and see whether the “locally-grown” label
still holds up.
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A PLAN THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE
The South Beach Heart Program
This book demystifies some of the biggest puzzles related to heart disease—why seemingly healthy people get heart attacks, and why women are not at a lower risk for heart disease.
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FEEL GREAT AND LOSE WEIGHT
The
Good Mood Diet
Instead of forcing you to give up your favorite foods, this diet book suggests choosing feel-good fare—such as fish, nuts and olive oil—and eating more snacks during the day.
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LOOK
AND FEEL YOUR BEST
The
Saint-Tropez Diet
This
new diet book shows you how to eat like the sexy
sirens in the south of France, nosh on French and
Mediterranean cuisine and still feel great about
your body image. |
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FIT
INTO THAT LITTLE BLACK DRESS
The
Skinny
This
guide to finding a desired weight describes how
to balance the pleasure of eating and still have
a comfortable body image. Now you’ll always
be able to fit into that cocktail dress. |
MOM
WAS RIGHT
Real Food: What to Eat and Why
Real Food is a memoir of Nina Planck’s transformation
from farm girl to urban vegan to “real food”
advocate. She argues that industrial foods like
sugar, hydrogenated oils, and powdered milk—not
traditional fats like chicken skin and lard—are
the true culprits in the epidemic of heart disease
and obesity. Who knew comfort food could be healthy? |
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FIGHT
FADS WITH FIBER
The
Reality Diet
The
secret to successful dieting, says cardiologist
Steven Schnur, is not rocket science: if calories
burned exceed calories consumed, the result is
weight loss. In his book Schnur debunks the myths
of deprivation diet programs and advocates fiber
as the key to shedding points healthfully and
permanently.
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EATING
WELL EVERY OTHER DAY
The QOD Diet
Doctors write the abbreviation QOD (Quaque Other
Die) on prescription pads when they want patients
to take their meds every other day. Daugirdas, a
retired kidney specialist, wants his readers to
take a break from eating normally every other day
because this way you consume less calories overall,
and the pounds drop off. |
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TURN
OFF YOUR HUNGER
The Flavor Point Diet
Dr.
Katz promises that weight will come off and stay
off, when you organize your meals into flavor
themes and reach the "Flavor Point,"
since the body is no longer tricked into binge
eating by a fête of flavors competing for
your taste buds’ attention. |
"Nest
of Deception"?
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want
You to Know About
Consumer
advocate Kevin Trudeau’s bestselling book
is at once revolutionary revelation and sensationalist
demagoguery. Whichever way you look at it, you'll
get plenty of advice on how to improve your health
and never get sick again. |
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Eat
Well and Slim Down
The
California Wine Country Diet
Moderation doesn’t have to be a struggle,
as author Haven Logan shows by suggesting cooking
seasonally, buying locally, eating consciously and,
best of all, drinking wine daily. |
Raw Food/Real World
Glowing
Veggies
Get
that "glow" with this new cookbook by
chefs Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis. The duo
will teach you how to discover the sensuality and
well-being of cooking with raw food. Try a Creamy
Coconut Shake or a Celeriac and Green Apple Soup—both
delicious and healthy. |
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Cooking
Light
Shunning
Carbs is Over
Distracted by the incessant noise from
fad diets, most people forget that it is possible
to eat well, feel great and enjoy delicious food
all at the same time! So
stop spending your time counting carbs and calories
and start enjoying your meals! |
The
New American Plate Cookbook
Recipes
for a Healthy Life
This noble three-fold effort by the AICR
to publish a cookbook that helps people keep a healthy
weight and live longer and more healthful lives
is as pleasing to the eye as it is packed with beautiful,
doable recipes. AICR's teams of food scientists,
cooks and recipe developers have already done the
thinking for you. All you’ve got to do is
pick up a fork.
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French
Women Don't Get Fat
The
Secret of Eating For Pleasure
In America, we love to spend money on
diet books, diet foods and other weight-loss gimmickry;
but, finally, here’s the ultimate non-diet
book, as author Mireille Guiliano calls it. It’s
a brave new world of “eating for pleasure.”
So, at your next meal, put down your cutlery between
bites, savor each item on your plate individually
and leave room for dessert. C’est très
facile! |
Raw
A
World without Stoves and Ovens
James Beard award–winner chef Charlie
Trotter, in collaboration with Roxanne Klein, has
crafted an elegant, tasty homage to the idea of
consuming living, natural food. While this is all
about a radical approach to healthy eating, Raw
is brought to you with great balance. |
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Uncooked
Raw
and Ravishing, But Real?
The authors of "Uncooked" suggest
spending the time saved by not cooking on arranging
and styling your food and playing with its colors,
shapes and textures. They say eating like this will
keep you healthier and slimmer. It’s just
that we prefer to get a bit down and dirty with
our food—and show it some heat! |
Zone
Meals in Seconds
Atkins
is Out, the Zone Still In!
Zone Meals in Seconds recaps the
Zone Diet while doubling as a competent cookbook
and guide to serving up breakfast, lunch, dinner
and snacks. With some good recipes and interesting
dishes, you won’t feel like you are on such
a restrictive diet. And that’s at least half
the battle. |
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Nourish
Nurture
with "Real Food"
Due to all the health-food and ethnic
ingredients sprinkled throughout the recipes, you
may end up doing some of the shopping in specialized
markets, but if you are interested in out-of-the-ordinary
healthful dishes with out-of-this-world flavor,
the trip is worth it. |
Looneyspoons!
Low-Fat
Food Made Fun!
If you giggle at chapter titles like "Meatless
in Seattle," "The Bowled and the Beautiful"
and "Fishing for Compliments," then there
is lots more that will make you chuckle in Looneyspoons.
The clever Podleski sisters hammer home points about
low-fat cooking with bushels of cartoons and jokes
in a colorful format more reminiscent of a kids'
book than a cookbook. |
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The
Circadian Prescription
Enhance
Your Body's Natural Rhythms
Most of us pay less attention to our
body's circadian clock than we do to the alarm clock
on our night table or the watch on our wrist, laments
Dr. Sidney MacDonald Baker. In The Circadian
Prescription, he clearly and enthusiastically
presents all the scientific literature to show why
he thinks this is a big-time mistake. |
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(Updated:
06/12/08 TG) |
