 | The Sonoma Diet: Trimmer Waist, Better Health in Just 10 Days! by Connie Guttersen
Buy used from: $0.01 Outstanding contribution to individual and public health. A masterful application of the Mediterranean diet to weight loss. Parker rating: *****
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 | The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 A blend of Atkins and a Mediterranean-style diet, but not far enough in the Mediterranean direction. Inadequate discussion of physical activity. Nevertheless, if Americans ate in the fashion recommended by this book, we would be slimmer, healthier, and live longer. Parker rating: ***
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 | You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management by Mehmet C. Oz
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.82 A fair program for most overweight women, but not enough calories for men. Mediterranean-style eating. Great information on exercise and the digestive process. No advice here regarding long-term maintenance of weight loss. Parker rating: ***
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 | The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
Buy used from: $0.01 I haven't read it yet. Rated highly by Consumer Reports.
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 | Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less: A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist Without Going Hungry by Mollie Katzen
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $1.69 I haven't read it yet. For years I have admired Walter Willett's work, and I expect this volume will be up to his usual high standards.
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 | The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life by David Zinczenko
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.20 I haven't read it yet. Consumer Reports in 2007 put it in the same league as "Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less" and "You on a diet." Heavy emphasis on exercise, which is probably good.
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 | Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss by Mark Hyman
Buy used from: $5.12 I haven't read it yet. Consumer Reports ranked it last among seven popular diet books. Oh, no! He won't let me drink my coffee!
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 | Thin for Life: 10 Keys to Success from People Who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off by Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D.
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I read it when first published, in 1994. Great concept: interview formerly fat people who have kept weight under control for years, then tell us how they did it. Inspirational. Includes weight-loss meal plans.
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 | Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly by Dean Ornish
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I read it it the mid-1990s and still feel betrayed: I didn't figure out it was a vegetarian diet until I was half-way through the book. Heavy focus on meditation and social involvement. Works well for many Californians.
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 | Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Revised Edition by Robert C. Atkins
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.26 I read the 2002 iteration. Even lost some weight with it. Gave it up when I learned I could never again eat apple pie: it exceeded my Critical Carbohydrate Level for Losing. Millions of dieters can't be wrong, can they? I worry about their missing the health and longevity benefits of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
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 | The Mediterranean Diet by Marissa Cloutier
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.65 Excellent introduction to the Mediterranean diet. The weight loss portion of the book is minimal, and individual consultation with a dietition or other nutritionist is recommended. The authors promote soy milk and complicate the Oldways/Willett Mediterranean diet pyramid.
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 | The Mediterranean Heart Diet: How It Works and How to Reap the Health Benefits, with Recipes to Get You Started by Helen V. Fisher
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $5.34 Excellent introduction to the Mediterranean diet. Emphasis on health benefits: less heart disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases. Over 140 delicious recipes.
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 | Enter the Zone by Barry Sears
Buy used from: $2.41 I haven't read it yet. Published in 1995. Not terribly popular anymore, but physicians still talk about it.
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 | Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating by M.D. Walter C. Willett
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.19 The title says it all, and accurately. Dr. Willett is a visionary and nutritional popularizer along the lines of Ancel Keys.
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 | Bowes and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used by Jean AT Pennington
Buy used from: $5.18 A classic. Excellent reference if you want to know what you're putting in your body. First edition published in 1937.
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 | The Advanced Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight, Feel Better, Live Longer by Steve Parker M.D.
Buy new: $15.34 / Used from: $42.82 I wrote this book, so I'll leave the comments for others. Please see the book's Product Detail Page at Amazon, or http://www.AdvancedMediterraneanDiet.com.
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