How to look terrific in a bathing suit: Your 30-day beach-beauty diet and exercise program

Manufacturer: Virgin Books

This is Cheryl Baker's personal collection of 70 calorie-counted recipes. The book includes ideas for breakfast, light lunches and dinners, as well as suggestions for entertaining. All the recipes are given a full calorific breakdown of fibre, fat, protein and carbohydrate content. It also contains Cheryl Baker's secrets to healthy eating and explains how she successfully lost weight without depriving herself of any of her favourite foods, and there are suggestions for low-calorie treats.

Manufacturer: BurmanBooks Media Corp Brand: Brand: Burman Books

Rather than diets or exercise, this revised and updated guide shows that the best tool for treating weight problems is the human mind. Most weight difficulties are the result of an emotional or mental issue that affects the mind, which in turn alters eating habits and the body itself for the worse. By learning to harness the strength of their own inner power, people with weight concerns will discover how to effectively deal with and remove these issues. Correcting the mind will result in steady, lasting weight loss, a healthier physique, and improved self-esteem.

Manufacturer: Random House Audio

Manufacturer: Pocket

Outlines the ten essential steps to lowering cholesterol levels, listing eighteen thousand up-to-date food entries that include calorie and fiber counts and providing daily recording worksheets and a supermarket guide.

Manufacturer: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of

Based on scientific findings, this book explains how, through dietary changes and relaxation techniques, the reader can uncover the underlying source of pain and naturally eliminate its cause. It also includes easy-to-follow recipes and advice on how to use different foods as medicine. Foods have special effects on pain, and research studies substantiate this, says Neal Barnard, M.D., in Foods That Fight Pain, a book endorsed by fellow doctors Dean Ornish and Andrew Weil. You can use foods to fight pain in these ways: 1. Choose pain-safe foods. Reduce inflammation by avoiding foods that may be causing or aggravating your pain. 2. Add soothing foods that ease pain. Different foods may improve blood flow, relieve inflammation, or balance hormones. 3. Use supplements if needed. Herbs, extracts, and vitamins can relieve pain. Barnard explores a variety of medical conditions, such as migraines, arthritis, digestive problems, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, diabetes, herpes, sickle-cell anemia, kidney stones, urinary infections, and back, chest, breast, menstrual, and cancer pain. For each, Barnard explains the causes of the pain and what dietary changes are likely to alleviate it, with exercise and lifestyle recommendations. Barnard backs up his points with 30 pages of research citations. Most of the recipes are quick to prepare, and include an elimination diet to avoid trigger foods. A nutritional breakdown (calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, and sodium) accompanies each recipe. Following the advice in this book will not only relieve your pain, but increase your overall health. Highly recommended. --Joan Price

Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks Brand: Virgin, J. J./ Ochs, Tara (NRT)

On the heels of the runaway "New York Times" bestseller "The Virgin Diet" comes a groundbreaking program that will revolutionize the way readers think about sugar and help them drop fat fast.Most people know sugar is bad for them, but few people know the sugar impact of seven common foods grains, roots, fruit, low-fat and no-fat diet and dairy foods, sugary sauces and condiments, alcohol and sugary drinks, and natural and artificial sweeteners can be the real cause of inflammation, bloating, metabolic disorders, fatigue, and weight gain. "JJ Virgin s Sugar Impact Diet" will revolutionize how readers think about (and eat) sugar. This two-week, low-sugar diet helps retrain taste buds, restore sugar sensitivity, heal the digestive tract, rev up metabolism, and promote rapid weight loss. It also helps reverse premature aging, while heading off most chronic and inflammatory illnesses where they start."

Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] If you've ever dieted, you've undoubtedly worked very hard to achieve results -- only to experience the disappointment of having the pounds creep back on. But now wellness expert Kathy Freston lets readers in on her secret: losing weight doesn't have to be difficult, and it can last. With this book she shares the powerful concept of the Lean -- a radically effective approach to positive change -- with a practical thirty-day plan to transform your health and jump-start weight loss in the most gentle, easy, and automatic way possible. ''Leaning in'' is about setting an intention for what you want, regarding weight and health, and then nudging yourself ever so gently in that direction, even if getting there seems impossible. It's about choosing to eat foods that are delicious, filling, and supportive of your goals. Each day of the scientifically based, vegan-friendly Lean plan, Kathy shows how to make and commit to small diet and lifestyle changes that, over time, yield unexpectedly significant results -- something as simple as swapping nondairy milk for cow's milk, eating an apple a day, or having an afternoon power shake. These changes propel you almost effortlessly into healthier choices and work together to bolster your progress. There are only two rules: 1. All you need is the willingness to take just one step. 2. As you add the healthier foods to your diet, eat the new foods first. By gradually adding in these nutrient-dense and fiber-rich foods, you'll crowd out the problem foods, feel fuller longer, and simply stop having cravings. On Kathy's Lean plan, readers can experience healthy, permanent weight loss of one to three pounds per week -- plus increased energy, improved digestion, clearer skin, and renewed purpose. Complete with exercises, recipes, and powerful testimonials, The Lean offers not only a truly leaner body, but also the little push we all need to get on the path to lasting change.

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Healthier than Dr Atkins, huge in the States, this all-new weight loss plan is the last diet you'll ever need. Forget fats as the biggest dietary sin, the latest scientific evidence now shows that the real culprits in escalating weight gain are grains, starches and sugars. By eliminating grains from your diet, you actually reprogramme your mind and body to release fat and burn it, and as a result the weight you lose is kept off - permanently. This all-new low carbohydrate diet moves on from Dr Atkins, cutting out the unhealthy side-effects of that diet and including a wider range of healthy foods than Atkins or any of his successors. The No Grain diet offers three plans tailored to suit your needs: The booster plan (to ease you more gently into the plan), the core plan (for faster results), and the advanced plan (for those who need to lose a lot of weight fast for health reasons). What's more, it presents a unique psychological technique to combat cravings, bolster your self-belief and help you ride low periods, which usually lead you to break the diet. With delicious recipes and advice on additional factors to further support your new healthy lifestyle. The No Grain Diet is the last diet book you'll ever need. Impressively modern in design, The No-Grain Diet brings a realistic viewpoint to the problems of weight loss in a genuine effort to improve the health of an ever-growing number of obese Americans. Offering a variety of "food plans," along with a set of techniques aimed at controlling emotional eating and cravings for "bad" foods, Dr. Joseph Mercola clearly understands how to motivate us--in one section, he suggests that rather than "living by the scale," we measure our success in relation to the fit of our favorite pair of slightly-too-snug jeans. Many recipes are included, most of which are free of the boring flavor substitutes so common in diet books. The diet itself combines several familiar concepts. The "no grain" model emphasizes organic vegetables an...