Book publishers are busy stuffing the stores with new diet titles.Here are five guides standing ready to assist with your 2013 OperationLose Weight and Regain Health program.
Thinner This Year: A Diet and Exercise Program for Living Strong, Fit, and Sexy by Chris Crowley and Jen Sacheck (Workman, 350 pp.)
If you like sensible guidance about food and fitness served with a side of humor, check out Thinner This Year by the 78-year-old Crowley, a retired lawyer, whose previous two Younger Next Year books have more than a million copies in print.
The 8-Hour Diet by David Zinczenko with Peter Moore (Rodale, 266 pp.)
Mr. "Eat This, Not That!" is now playing the numbers game, insistingthat it's not what you eat but when, so stop with the 24/7 noshing andstart eating within a set eight-hour zone.
Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat by Paul Jaminet and Shou-Ching Jaminet (Scribner, 428 pp.)
Struggling with ill health, this husband-and-wife team, both Harvardscientists, describes in rich scientific detail how and why a modifiedPaleo diet of fish, meat, vegetables, fruit, rice and potatoes helped.
Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis. (Rodale, 322 pp.)
Put down that bagel and repent, urges anti-wheat crusader Davis whosecookbook opens with: "Like a faithful spouse exposed as a philandererand polygamist, wheat is not to be trusted."
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert Lustig (Hudson Street Press, 336 pp.)
Sugar is not our friend, cautions Lustig in this passionate book thatmixes personal guidance about losing weight with improved eating habitsand the public threat posed by obesity.
