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Include books by the same authorPresto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette · 344 pages
An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality--magician Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Topping 330 pounds and saddled with a systolic blood pressure reading over 200, he found himself at a dangerous crossroads: approaching his sixtieth b
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
Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother!
Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin · 329 pages
Over 1,000,000 Skinny Bitches worldwide! Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry, while inspiring people across the world to stop eating "crap." Now the "Bitches" are back-this time with a book geared to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a "delicate condition" doesn't mean they'll deliver a gentle message. As they did with Skinny Bitch,
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
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
What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting
Heidi Murkoff · 480 pages
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.
Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life
Ali Vincent · 176 pages
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
Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
Jennette Fulda · 300 pages
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.
The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick And What We Can Do About It
Robyn O'Brien, Rachel Kranz · 338 pages
A first-person story that reveals the alarming relationship between the manipulation of our food and the increase in dangerous allergies in our children.
The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for achieving a Radiant Mind and a Fabulous Body
Jessica Porter · 328 pages
A modern girl's guide to the secrets of eating for health, beauty, and peace of mind."Part Joan Rivers, part Mahatma Gandhi, Jessica Porter makes macrobiotics meaningful, hilarious, and totally life-changing."Simon Doonan, creative director, Barneys New York and author of Wacky ChicksHeralded by New York magazine as one of the city's most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the latest trend in
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
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
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
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Michael Pollan · 140 pages
A pocket compendium of food wisdom from the author of [*The Omnivore's Dilemma*][1] and [*In Defense of Food*][2], Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or c
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 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Timothy Ferriss · 589 pages
The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling autho
Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide
David Zinczenko · 319 pages
Trim Healthy Mama -- No More Fads!
Serene Allison, Pearl Barrett