 | The New Cabbage Soup Diet by Margaret Danbrot
Buy used from: $0.01 The Cabbage Soup Diet: The classic.
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 | Macrobiotic Diet by Michio Kushi
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $3.56 The Macrobiotic Diet: An extensive theory based on Asian spiritual principes of yin and yang. Largely vegetarian and rice-based. Forbids certain common foods (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers).
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 | Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous To Your Health by James Braly M.D.
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.20 The Gluten-Free Diet: Not just for celiacs anymore.
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 | Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight by Peter J. D'Adamo
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.87 The Blood Type Diet: A whole theory about 'leptins' and their interaction with the various blood types. Theory about cultural development and complete lists of good/bad foods for each blood type.
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 | The Mcdougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health (Plume) by John A. McDougall
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.04 The Ultra-Low Fat Diet: For overall/heart health and weight loss. I happen to favor Dr. McDougall because he's vegan, but more well-known figures on this scene include Drs. Pritikin, Ornish, etc.
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 | The Body Code: A Personal Wellness And Weight Loss Plan At The World Famous Green Valley Spa by Kathryn Lance
Buy used from: $0.01 The Metabolic Typing Diet: Take a quiz, figure out what your dominant gland is, and that tells you what you should eat! Low carb, low fat - it depends! I read this book, but Dr. Abravanel was first.
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 | How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! by Dana Carpender
Buy used from: $0.01 The Low Carb Diet: Dr. Atkins is the infamous popularizer, but I like this book for its frankness, and low-carbing is actually hundreds of years old. Related: Schwarzbein, Protein Power, etc.
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 | Beyond the 120 Year Diet : How to Double Your Vital Years by Roy Walford
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.84 The Low Calorie Diet: For life extension as well as weight loss.
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 | The Hay Diet Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Food Combining by Jackie Habgood
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $1.17 Food Combining Diet #1: Never mix starch and protein, limit fluid intake at meals, etc. For digestive system health, also weight loss.
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 | Eat Yourself Slim (Adapted for North America) by Michel Montignac
Buy used from: $1.60 Food Combining Diet #2: Never mix carbs with fat or protein, eat fat and protein together. Beverly Hills, Somersizing, et al. derive from Montignac's work.
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 | Starch Madness by Richard L. Heinrich
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $1.21 The Zone Diet: 40%-30%-30% carb-fat-protein by calories. Barry Sears popularized this (under the name "Zone"), but I think this is a great set of essays on the benefits/justification of this diet.
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 | NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body by Ray Audette
Buy used from: $34.17 The Paleolithic, a.k.a. Caveman, Diet: Like the Zone diet, but rejects 'neolithic' foods such as grains and dairy claiming they are detrimental to health.
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 | We Want to Live by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Buy used from: $20.75 The Raw Animal Food (RAF) Diet: Extreme paleolithic, but can include unpasteurized dairy. This book is particularly interesting for its odd, semi-mystic, demagoguerish author and impressive claims.
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 | The Raw Life : Becoming Natural In An Unnatural World by Paul Nison
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $3.20 Raw Food Diet (vegan, the more common kind): supposed to give health, energy, weight loss. This is an adorable book that uses a boxing/superhero theme.
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 | Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet by Gabriel Cousens
Buy used from: $3.41 Raw Food Diet, mystic variant: Involved theories about chakras, colors of foods, attitudes toward eating, and so on.
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 | Bowes and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used by Jean AT Pennington
Buy new: $42.49 / Used from: $6.90 Design Your Own.
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