Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales

Year of No Sugar

Eve O. Schaub · 303 pages

Schaub challenged her family to join her on a quest to eat no added sugar for an entire year. Along the way, she uncovered the real costs of our sugar-heavy American diet-- including diabetes, obesity, and other health problems. Here is what "kicking the sugar addiction" looks like for a real American family.

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich · 244 pages

"For decades, Vinnie Tortorich has been Hollywood's go-to guy for celebrities and athletes looking to get fit fast. Now, in this hilarious, R-rated memoir, Hollywood's most outrageous personal trainer exposes the fitness world while getting you into shape."--Page 4 of cover

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

A.J. Jacobs · 402 pages

"Having sanctified himself in The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to become the healthiest man in the world. He didn't want just to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far, far greater: Maximal health from head to toe.The task was massive. He had to tack

Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir

Jennette Fulda · 300 pages

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver · 384 pages

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begi

I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks

Edward Ugel

One man’s humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life. Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel’s complicated history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman

The Body Book: Feed, Move, Understand and Love Your Amazing Body

Cameron Diaz · 280 pages

Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down to earth star was not always health conscious. Learning about the inseparab

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl

Shauna Reid · 400 pages

A hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won.In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Toda

Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer · 223 pages

Former cattle rancher Howard Lyman "blasts through the propaganda of the beef and dairy industries ... and exposes an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country."--Jacket.

Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

Ali Vincent · 176 pages

Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness

Candace Cameron Bure, Darlene Schacht · 266 pages

"Millions first met Candace Cameron Bure when she costarred on the hit television series Full House. Today, she is that rare Hollywood working mom who maintains a normal life--no trainer, no nanny, no chef--and is outspoken about her Christian faith and how it has helped overcome certain obstacles...like a serious struggle with food. More than a biography, Reshaping It All is a motivational tool p

The Heavy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Diet—a Memoir

Dara-Lynn Weiss · 248 pages

"As lightning-rod writer Dara Weiss explains in The Heavy, the "mommy wars" were never more clear than over the issue of her 7-year-old daughter's weight. Some moms looked down on her for "letting" Bea get clinically obese. But that's nothing compared with the scorn others offered when Dara put Bea on a strict calorie-counting diet. Some said she was clearly seeding body image issues; many others

Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose

Drew Manning, Brad Pierce · 249 pages

Drawing from the lessons and insights of his breakout website, Fit2Fat2Fit.com, personal trainer Drew Manning delivers the story of his quest to go from fit to fat to fit again in one year in order to better understand the weight-loss struggles of his clients and the online community. Drew embarked on this journey to prove to clients, website followers, and people across the country that it is pos

Balancing in Heels: My Journey to Health, Happiness, and Making it all Work

Kristin Cavallari · 240 pages

Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans

Michelle Tam, Henry Fong · 277 pages

Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes

Mary Tyler Moore · 228 pages

Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years, while also tapping into the vast diabetes research network to talk to leading experts who are discovering new ways to control diabetes and its complications.

Serve To Win: The 14-Day Gluten-free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence

Novak Djokovic · 192 pages

In 2011, the author had what has been called the greatest single season ever by a professional tennis player. He won ten titles, three Grand Slams and 43 consecutive matches. This book recounts how he survived the bombing of Belgrade, rising from a war-torn childhood to the top tier of his sport.

Anticancer: A New Way of Life

David Servan-Schreiber

The New York Times and international bestseller-now updated with the latest research Anticancer has been a bestselling phenomenon since Viking first published it in fall 2008. Now, a new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition of Anticancer includes:* The late

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan · 450 pages

What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as

Love is the Cure: On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS

Elton John · 256 pages

Elton's personal account of his life during the AIDS epidemic, including stories of his close friendships with Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor, and others, and the story of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Skinny Bitch

Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin · 224 pages

Presents advice on following a vegan diet which eliminates meat, dairy products, and eggs, and concentrates on vegetables, fruits, and soy products, to promote a healthier body free of toxins and the harmful ingredients present in overly processed foods.

Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own

Mika Brzezinski, Diane Smith · 239 pages

With insights from notable people in medicine, health, business, the arts, and politics, Brzezinski breaks through the walls of silence and shame we've built around obesity and food obsession and talks openly about how our country became overweight, and what we can do to turn the corner and step firmly onto the path of health.

Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge

Valerie Bertinelli