Dieting Books

Better Homes And Gardens 3 Steps To Weight Loss is the latest in a long tradition of tested excellence at Better Homes and Gardens. Written by the Director of Weight Management at Johns Hopkins University, it contains both method and means. This is Dr. Cheskin's plan:

1. Use the latest standards to determine your healthiest weight.
2. Find the calorie level uniquely tailored to your body.
3. Choose an easy-to-follow meal plan to fit your life style.

The best tools of all are the 100 plus imaginative, simple, sophisticated, tempting recipes he offers. Each is clearly presented with dietary exchanges, nutrition facts and daily values listed at the beginning of the recipe. Some examples are Chunky Chipotle Pork Chili, Curried Crab Salad, Vegetable Spring Rolls, Chicken and Garbanzo Bean Soup, Cheddar Polenta Puff, and Flax Seed Corn Bread, just to mention a few. An emphasis on fresh produce, imaginative use of herbs, spices, seasonings, and low fat and sugar make this a winning recipe collection for weight loss enthusiasts and healthy eaters.

There are even delectable desserts, such as Mango and Raspberry Tart, Mocha Pudding Cake, and Chocolate Snickerdoodles.

In addition to meal suggestions, Better Homes And Gardens 3 Steps To Weight Loss emphasizes the value of exercise and logging your meals and exercise. Finally, there are a week's worth of 1200 calorie sample menus. Beautiful colored photographs embellish the collection, offering further tempting serving suggestions. I can hardly wait to try them all!

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

In Better Homes And Gardens 3 Steps To Weight Loss, Dr. Lawrence Cheskin draws upon his expertise and experience at the Weigh Management Center at Johns Hopkins University to provide the non-specialist general reader with realistic solutions for losing weight, keeping it off, and maintaining a healthful, satisfying lifestyle through three basic steps involving nutritious eating, physical exercise, and behavioral changes. Step One is identifying the optimum and healthy weight for a particular height and build. Step Two is determining how many calories are needed to lose weight and maintain the weight loss. Step Three is a healthy eating plan based on caloric needs. To that end, the Better Homes And Gardens 3 Steps To Weight Loss showcases 110 superbly presented recipes enhanced with full color photography of the finished dishes. From Greek Lamb Salad with Yogurt Dress; Pork Medallions with Pear Sauce; and Chicken with Braised Spinach and Leek; to Sesame-Teriyaki Sea Bass; Sweet Bean Pilaf; and Mocha Pudding Cake, Better Homes And Gardens 3 Steps To Weight Loss will grace any family cookbook collection as an instant favorite!

As silly as it seems, this book has really changed my life!! The recipes are so easy to follow: the ingredients are listed in a column on the left and a few easy steps on the right. They are all easy to read, easy to make and everyone of them is excellent and nutritious. I no longer have to rack my brain and spend hours researching what to cook for dinner. Thanks Lynn!

I have tried at least 50 of these recipes and have had only one that was not good (black bean chicken).
Everything else is excellent and I have made several things more than once. I'm not afraid to try any of these recipes with that track record.
Even the deserts I've tried have been good!

Straightforward and fun -- we can all benefit from reading a book like this! Cannot wait for the paperback edition!

I absolutely loved it! I've been waiting for something like this to come along. It's very clear and to the point.

My family couldn't believe it when I bought luncheon plates to use as our dinner plates almost 10 years ago. I was still too embarrassed to use them when someone came over to eat, I would pull out the 'regular' corelle dinner set. Now I have some validation for my thinking! Thanks! I have a continual battle with weight. I don't yo-yo or loose weight only to gain it back - I have just stayed at 215 lbs give or take a few for many years. I should be at about 175 for my personal opinion. Now I can see that dining out really can be a problem. Even before I read the book, I realized one time when my family of 2 adults and 3 girls (ages9-16) were seated at a booth table, that when they brought the food, the side which my kids were seated at would have not had enough room if the one kids meal didn't come in a basket! There was plenty of room for them to sit, but three platters would have been end to end and touching each other on the table! And now the fast food places have begun to sell 2 burgers for the price of one, encouraging you to overeat because of the perceived value of food in relation to how much you pay. If it is cheap, it must be ok to eat that much. Really, I feel fast food is trying to change your lifestyle to depend on the small amount of effort required to get it and become a frequently used option in meal planning. No small matter that it would make the average person fatter. We have all grown up with the goodwill of others encouraging us to get seconds, or if nothing else seems to get you out of the blue - then have something to eat... I have tried to keep from saying this to my girls - now that this book has been published, I have had the two older ones read it and we discussed it. It helps them understand other families eating dynamics and made them appreciate that I have not done the same. My husband is a little slower in absorbing the book, but I think it will help him alot. Its not complicated, no journaling or mathmatic calculations, just reduce. The french seem to cook much of thier stuff with butter and lots of cream, but they are still thinner. I would much rather limit what I eat than try to find and 'acceptable' tasting low fat or low calorie alternative. This book helps validate my resolve and make it easier to stick to it.
I know this review is lengthy, but its hard to condense a subject which occupies so much of our time, from meal planning, to eating and then to finally trying to loose the wieght gained or deal with the health problems associated with it.

Let me start by saying I love these guys (I don't actually even know them, I only know their work which is spectacular!). I pre-ordered and read the book the day it arrived. As a veteran of Weight Watchers (lost 100 pounds in a year, gradually gained back 120) and Atkins (lost 90 pounds in 6 months and gained back 140) I'm ready for some common sense. More importantly, I'm ready for something I can do the rest of my life and get off the yo yo.

One thing these guys are brilliant at is simplification. Whether in their advertising or this book, they are great at taking the complex and making it seem so simple you wonder why you couldn't see it all along. When they say that "diets obviously don't work, otherwise we'd only need one of them" it puts the entire best-selling diet creation industry on notice.

Does it work? Who knows, the book arrived yesterday. But... it's near the beginning of 2009, I'm easily 100 pounds overweight and in a pre-diabetic state (don't worry, I'm seeing a doctor and he thinks this is brilliant as well). I don't have a better idea right now so, I'm trying it. Check back from time to time and I'll report on my progress.

Stay tuned!

Even if it doesn't work... it's worth it for the laughs!

Knowledgeably written by Gayle Reichler (a registered dietitian, professional chef, and certified nutritionist known as "America's Wellness Coach"), Active Wellness: Feel Good For Life: A Personalized 7-Step Program For Your Body, Mind And Spirit offers seven basic steps including eating and exercise plans designed to effectively change unhealthy habits and create a successful celebration and long-term maintenance of good health. Individual chapters refer to metal preparation, forming new habits and avoiding old triggers, creating a personal physical fitness plan tailored to one's needs, managing stress, maintaining one's health for a lifetime, and much more, Active Wellness: Feel Good For Life is an upbeat, can-do guide written especially for non-specialist general readers having trouble getting started or sticking to a schedule for improving their health and physical well being.

I am so glad to have discovered Gayle Reichler's ACTIVE WELLNESS! Not only does it offer helpful and accessible information on adopting a more healthy lifestyle, but the author's guidance is made all the more powerful by the fact that she followed the very same program herself. I have put my entire family on the Active Wellness Program - even my children. We have all struggled with our weight at one time or another, but since starting the program we have all lost weight and kept it off! We feel more energetic than ever. ACTIVE WELLNESS is a book for everyone concerned with getting and staying healthy. And we can all use a bit of help in that department!

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Wow - its like condensed orange juice! Clearly explains the how, what, why of healing. The chapter and chart on Price versus Value of supplements was the clearest and easiest explanation in a few short pages, that I've ever read. The doctors and pharmacists involved in writing it, deserve applause - first time I got the whole picture, along with clear and easy to understand information about everything from herbs to vitamins, flower remedies and everything in between. Dr. Pettles one page description on his natural menopausal hormone replecment therapy and natural choices versus the drug approach, made getting the book worth every cent! I copied the page for a friend, who ended up getting the book and showing it to her doctor. She said it was so simple and clear, her doctor stopped trying to push the drugs and gave her a prescription for Dr Pettles natural hormone replacement therapy - on top of that its working for her. Not since I read Mindells Vitamin Bible, have I read such a clear, information packed book! A must have for anyone interested in natural remedies and supplements - fanstastic value for the money. Incidently, I am NOT related to the authors.

One of the best books out there for people like me who are 'food challenged'. I have a myriad of health problems from indoor to outdoor, chemicals to foods...and when I found this book it was a real blessing. They cover everything. The recipes are awesome, the helpful guides are something everyone should carry around and get to know. A must for everyone who wants to better their knowledge and health. ;)

Overwhelmed by how to eat with food allergies? This book takes an easy, straight forward approach to buying, cooking and eating for a food allergy-free diet. Not everyone has the same food allergies, so these folks have substitutions right with each recipe. No need to second guess or hunt through other books trying to figure out what would work instead. They don't focus just on the major allergies (wheat, sugar, dairy, corn, soy, yeast). They cover a wide range of allergies. And their recipes are good. There's also a section that explains what food substitutes are out there and how to prepare them. For example, instead of wheat, there is oat, barley, rye, kamut, spelt, amaranth, teff, quinoa, etc.

I am an author and a poet and during a leisure trip to Las Vegas, Nevada with my family, we were able to obtain a front row seat at the Gladys Knight Show. It was awesome. What a display of great talent! Reading her book is fascinating. The historical perspective of her story is amazing. She states how she believes diabetes eventually crept upon her, and why. However, she has it under control. The ways in which she blends her songs into her treatment plan is humbling. For example, she uses the heading in one section of the book, "Neither One Of Us Wants to Say Goodbye to the Cheeseburger," where she discusses fatty foods and how to avoid fast foods. The pictures of her family are wonderful. Her philosophy of dealing with positive people, exercising daily, and burning calories is a formula for success. The final section of the book deals with a variety of mouth-watering dishes and recipes. They are all healthy with her special blend of spices, herbs, and juices, with a low fat touch. This is an easy and relaxing book to read. It's a great treat to and for lowering one's blood sugar and staying healthy. I highly recommend it!!!

At Home With Gladys Knight is a wonderful, inspiring book. I bought this book for my parents who both have diabetes. After years of trying to get them to follow doctor recommended diets it is a relief to have a book that inspires my parents to not only care about their diet, but their physical fitness as well.
Mrs. Knight has created a quick and easy read that is full of motivation. This book gets 5 stars in the Murphy household.

The book is simple and easy to use. Almost all of the ingredients used in the recipes I found at my local fresh market. The recipes are quick to prepare. The book is an excellent start to the ayurvedic way of life.

Curry is more than just a superb spice to enhance the flavor of dishes from the Indian subcontinent, it is also medicinal and utilizing the principles of Ayuverdic medicine (the traditional healing system of India), can help to bring the body's health into balance. In Ayurvedic Cooking Made Easy: 100+ Recipes For A Healthy You, Kumunda Reddy draws upon her more than twenty years of practicing medicine to showcase recipes that are healthy, health-inducing, and palate pleasing. Ranging from Creamy Red Lentil Dal; Vegetable Pancakes; and Cooling Cucumber Soup; to Brussel Sprouts and Potato Curry; Apple Pear Chutney; and Fruit Salad with Blueberry Sauce, Ayurvedic Cooking Made Easy is a prize culinary collection that is additionally enhanced with a backgrounding in Ayurvedic medicine concepts, food guidelines, tips for beginners, and sources for more information including Maharishi Vedic Medicine, recommended readings, and other books by Dr. Kumuda Reddy.

I have always had an interest in herbal medicine, unfortunetly a good book is hard to come by, this book is excellent you can search by herb which gives its uses, best preparations etc or by ailment in which a recommendation on what is generally the cause with herbal remedies.

I love alternative medicine classics - books that are uniquely authoritative and crammed with information. I use this book constantly. There is simply no other source of herbal information which is so comprehensive. It must have taken a lifetime to write. This book is also holistic and does not bow to science at the expense of leaving out valuable traditional information.
Linda Lazarides
Author: The Waterfall Diet; Treat Yourself with Nutritional Therapy