Diets & dieting Books

The Sweet Poison Quit Plan is the long-awaited 'how to' supplement to the best-selling Sweet Poison. It features: an overview of why sugar is bad and why we get addicted a five-step plan to kicking the habit tailored advice for men and women a guide to sugar-free shopping (how ...

This latest offering from David Gillespie explodes the myths about diet, exercise and vitamin supplements, examining the latest scientific evidence and exposing the role the multibillion-dollar food, health and diet industries have played in promoting the health messages we follow or feel guilty abo...

The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good: Step 1: Attack For 2-7 days eat as much as you want of 72 protein-rich foods. Step 2: Cruise Continue eating the protein-rich foods with the addition of 28 vegetables....

The Dukan Diet is based on a unique four-step programme. Two steps to lose weight and two steps to keep it off for good. The Dukan Diet Recipe Book will help you stick to the diet by offering over 350 recipes suitable for the all-important weight loss stages. With meal ideas for the protein-only Att...

One of New Zealand's best-selling titles, the Calorie Counter is an easy-to-use guide to counting the energy values of thousands of food items available all over New Zealand. This new edition has been completely revised to ensure it has the most up-to-date information on your favourite ...

Sort out the 'big stuff' and your weight will take care of itself argues clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo. Looking beyond diets and the gym, Karen's approach considers you, the person. Put simply, you're a person with a bum attached - not the other way round. Karen was compelled to write this book ...

Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Would you like to feel really happy with your body? Are you unable to lose those last 10 pounds? Do you find it difficult to say no to second helpings? Do you get disheartened about your eating habits and your weight? Then this amazing b...

The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good. The Dukan Diet Life Plan helps you incorporate the bestselling weight-loss programme into your life so that you can lose the weight you want like millions of others ha...

Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months- Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours- Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing- Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsess...

Lose 5 kilos in 30 days. It sounds straightforward and it is. Michelle Bridges is Australia's most successful weight-loss expert and she knows how to get people into shape quickly. Whether your weight has been slowly creeping up over the last few years, you've already lost a lot of weight but can't ...

Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100,000 copies sold to date! Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if you want to ...

Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months- Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours- Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing- Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsess...

LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND! Cook Yourself Thin is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. The ladies of "Cook Yourself Thin," a new Lifetime reality show, offer 80 easy, accessible recipes in this companion cookbook that teaches readers how to c...

Dr. Ian Smith's diets really work. America has lost millions of pounds following his Fat Smash and Extreme Fat Smash diets. Now, in "The 4 Day Diet", Smith has developed a program that allows readers to avoid the normal (and fatal) pitfalls of dieting: boredom, no treats allowed, too much repetition...

Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Would you like to feel really happy with your body? Are you unable to lose those last 10 pounds? Do you find it difficult to say no to second helpings? Do you get disheartened about your eating habits and your weight? Then this amazing b...

Jon Gabriel lost over 100 kilos without dieting or surgery and amazingly his body shows almost no sign of ever having been morbidly obese. His totally unique and groundbreaking approach to losing weight is backed by solid, cutting edge obesity research from over four years of full-time investigation...

Highly readable, this is not a diet book but a clear approach to a lifestyle weight-loss programe. It has already been successfully delivered to staff of a number of companies, private clients and patients of several medical practices. It is strongly backed by doctors and leading figures in nutritio...

You've seen her change lives on "The Biggest Loser"-why not yours? Are you in good shape but struggling with those last ten to twenty pounds? Do you have an event on the calendar where you'd love to make jaws drop? Or do you just want to see what it would be like to have the best body you'...

Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a rallying cry for all savv...

At last, a lay-flat paperback edition of this triumphant bestseller - more than one million hardcover copies in print in just 18 months! Diet fads come and go, but the proven program that people get with and stay with is Weight Watchers. Now available as an affordable comb-bound paperback, this thor...

Allen Carr's eating plan allows you to enjoy eating, savour flavours and lose weight. You can: eat your favourite foods; follow your natural instincts; avoid guilt and remorse; enjoy the flavour of fresh foods; do away with digestive ailments; learn to re-educate your tastes; and let appetite be you...

As millions of Dukan Dieters around the world know, delicious food and permanent weight loss can go hand in hand. Now comes the Dukan Diet Cookbook—already an international bestseller— the must-have resource for making the Dukan Diet successful and delicious. Introduced in the phenomenal bestsel...

The #1 diet plan in America for eating healthfully is now a weight-loss plan, too. Named the "Best Overall Diet" by "U.S News & World Report," the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet is a proven program for weight loss. But that's not all: it also lowers blood pressure and cholest...

A personal and inspirational memoir from Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, focused on her amazing transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, Jennifer Hudson wowed the world with her powerful voice in "American Idol"'s third season, and ...

For years, Dr. Neal Barnard has been on the forefront of cutting-edge research on what it really takes to lose weight and restore the body to optimal health. Now, with his proven, successful program, THE 21-DAY KICKSTART, in just three short weeks you'll get fast results--drop pounds, lower choleste...

Following the success of "Flat Belly Diet", author Cynthia Sass offers a new weight loss plan that promises rapid weight loss, satiety, and quick body stabilisation, freeing dieters from the cravings and unhealthy eating habits that keep them holding on to unwanted body fat. The program st...

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In the "New York Times" best seller "Good Calories, Bad Calories, "Taubes argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates--not fats and not simply excess calories--have led ...

At last! The cookbook based on the bestselling The Paleo Diet Dr. Loren Cordain's The Paleo Diet has helped thousands of people lose weight, keep it off, and learn how to eat for good health by following the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors and eating the foods we were genetically designed to ea...

The Harcombe Diet is the result of 20 years of research trying to answer the question "Why on earth do we have an obesity problem, let alone an epidemic, when we want more than anything else in the world to be slim?" This research has led dietician and author Zoe Harcombe to several discoveries: The...

Does it feel as if you're fighting your body to lose even one pound--or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been there, too. So she consulted top experts in the field of metabolism and discovered that she'd inadverten...

Accidentally Overweight is about what has to happen for a human to be able to access body fat and burn it. Essentially it is about weight loss and all of things that need to come together in our bodies for this to be possible. Many people eat well and exercise regularly yet their body fat does not r...

Eat 100 counts a day, and walk 10,000 steps - losing weight doesn't have to mean doing without your favourite foods - even chocolate or a glass of wine. The Food Lover's Diet is for those who live in the real world where food is plentiful and life is hectic. It's a revolutionary do-it-yourself ap...

Do you want to improve your family's health and fitness for good? Hit TV show "Fat Families" has shrunk the waistlines of some of the nation's fattest families with its simple strategies and no-nonsense attitude. Now you can transform your family's health with this fat-busting plan. Combin...

Dr. Travis Stork, cohost of the popular, nationally syndicated television show The Doctors, teams up with award-winning Men's Health editor Peter Moore to deliver a personalized prescription for shrinking your belly and your health risks. Among the slimming strategies they offer are: - The Belly F...

Based on the "New York Times" bestseller "The Belly Fat Cure" (over 240,000 copies sold) that is changing the way America eats, this simple supermarket guide gives you the power to release stubborn belly fat fast and forever. Complete with Jorge's secret to guaranteed weight loss...

Celebrity psychotherapist and hypnotherapist Susan Hepburn has worked with thousands of men and women struggling with addiction. Using a simple yet highly effective self-hypnosis technique, she can help you to 'quit' your particular addiction for good. Written in an easy-to read style with plenty of...

Join the million-plus people who have found the answer to losing their belly fat while eating satisfying and delicious foods. With the Flat Belly Diet you can: Lose inches in just 4 days Drop up to 15 pounds in 32 days Boost your energy as the weight falls off! "Prevent...

'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants' These simple words get to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through the generations have become confused, complicated and distorted by food ind...

Not a short-term quick fix, The Best Life Diet is a way of eating that will take weight off and keep it off. This book addresses all the things that conspire to make us overweight; since most people find the biggest issue they have is controlling their eating, diet takes the centre stage in this boo...

This book is your comprehensive guide to the CSIRO's CLIP (Complete Lifestyle Program) eating and exercise plan, which is designed to look after the health of your whole cardiovascular system and help you reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and other complications of obesity. ...