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Book Reviews: Dec 2007

Thinner at Last
The 90/10 Weight - Loss Plan
The Choose to Lose Diet: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss
Fit For Life
Fit For Business

1) Thinner at Last

This book is designed to guide and educate those who struggle with losing weight and have difficulty keeping the unwanted pounds from coming back. It is not a diet book. It gives details for successful weight loss and is the most comprehensive information. The book is recommended that one should consult a physician before taking any medication, undertaking nutritional changes, or starting an exercise program.

Authors: Steven Lamm
Publishers: A Fireside Book
Date of Publication: 1997
No. of pages: 254

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2) The 90/10 Weight - Loss Plan

This book is designed to incorporate a majority of guidelines for sound nutrition developed especially for people who tried to lose weight but just couldn't give up their favorite food. This book offers three different caloric levels, based on the amount of weight one wants to lose. This book will help one to reduce the risk of heart disease and certain cancers.

Authors: Joy Bauer
Publishers: Renaissance Books
Date of Publication: 2001
No. of pages: 302

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3) The Choose to Lose Diet: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss

This book is the only weight loss book which is geared to ones' personal eating preferences. It outlines tools and knowledge to take control of ones' diet. The book helps to adopt a new eating lifestyle and it gives broaden zones and add spice and variety to ones' life.

Authors: Dr. Ron Goor
Publishers: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date of Publication: 1990
No. of pages: 332

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4) Fit For Life

This book regards nutritional appropriateness as a matter of energy balance. It gives a simple, natural eating program that shows how to exploit the body's instincts for food, and teaches how to eat in accordance with natural digestive cycles. Fit For Life explains nutrition in terms of natural laws, not what human minds have concocted up to now.

Authors: Harvey Diamond
Publishers: A Warner Communication Company
Date of Publication: 1985
No. of pages: 241

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5) Fit For Business

This book gives all information about physical fitness. The book is full of sensible illustrations of how a modest change in routine can improve health and, in the long run, performance. It contains practical and sensible suggestions for introducing fitness plans into the working environment.

Authors: Matthew Archer
Publishers: Mercury Books
Date of Publication: 1991
No. of pages: 241

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