A diet proven to be good for your figure, your heart and your health

Essentially a low-carbohydrate plan, the Atkins Diet boosts your metabolic rate and, once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. With this regime you can lose weight without reducing or counting calories.

Drs Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, authors of the million-copy bestseller 'YOU: The Owner's Manual', have devised a diet that is so effective you'll notice changes in your body immediately. Starting with a Two-Week Reboot that will help you lose up to two inches around your waist, you will shed your unwanted weight forever.

Written by a French-born and bred author, this book shows how to eat with balance and control. It combines memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense.

Explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. This title is a meticulously researched account.

What shall we have for dinner? Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? We can eat what nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. This work traces the origin of what is consumed and the implications of it for us and our planet.

Tells the truth about food so that readers can make informed, educated decisions about what they put in their bodies. This work outlines a way of life that helps readers make healthy choices.

From Dr Phil McGraw, the author of Self Matters , Relationship Rescue and Life Strategies , comes a powerful and no-nonsense programme for losing weight and keeping it off.

Whether you've lost weight doing Atkins and want to make your success permanent or you're new to Atkins and are concerned about your health and weight control, this book offers advice and tips on navigating the everyday challenges that come with eating low carb in a high carb world. It includes 200 menu plans with controlled carbohydrate counts.

It has now been established that a person's blood type plays a part in losing weight, avoiding disease and promoting fitness and longevity. Based on that knowledge, this book provides a set of blood type-specific diets.

From the bestselling author of 'Get With the Program!' and 'Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover' comes this lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step. Unlike a celebrity, however, you ...

This guide outlines Bill Phillip's fitness programme, comprising weight training, aerobic exercise, and a careful diet. In addition, it addresses the reader's own personal goals and encourages personal transformation mentally, not just physically.

A three-pronged attack on the abs for a flat stomach. This book shows you how to lose weight through diet and exercise and how then to tone your muscles with specific abdominal exercises. The diet is straightforward and flexible, based on 12 'super-foods' that help promote weight loss, and on eating frequent small meals.

A diet and lifestyle programme that allows you to eat unlimited portions of the foods you like. Fit for Life reveals: principles to bring permanent weight loss and high energy; the secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles; and a four-week meal plan, menus, recipes and shopping tips.

This guide addresses the source rather than the symptoms of weight problems. Scientifically based, this diet plan has had a proven 80 percent success rate, because it is safe, enjoyable and remarkably easy.

Examines what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat, rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens. This title is suitable for those trying to decide which diet - low-fat or low-carbohydrate - is truly the healthy diet.

Contains calculated glycemic ratings of hundreds of foods and lists them in three simple categories: foods to avoid, foods to eat occassionally, and foods you can eat as much as you want of. With tips on dining out and maintaining your weight.

A guide to what to eat at home, the supermarket, as well as a fast-food restaurant. It also provides nutrition secrets that may lead to fast and permanent weight loss.

This is not a diet but an eating plan that excludes certain foods - refined sugars, carbohydrates and starches. These are often present in conventional low-fat diets. Includes a 14-day eating plan and easy-to-prepare gourmet recipes.

The most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health.