Tools for a Healthy New Year - January 2008
 The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook: Your Reference Guide to Thousands of Foods and How Each One Shapes Your Body
By David Zinczenko (613.2 ZIN) (2007)
The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook, authored by Men’s Health editor-in-chief David Zinczenko, provides one with answers to questions about smart food and exercise choices to help you get your abs in shape. The book also provided tips, tricks, recipes, and studies to help readers easily start and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
 Rethinking Thin: the New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
By Gina Kolata (613.25 KOL) (2007)
New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows us that society’s obsessions with weight loss and dieting is really more about money, greed, and the quest for impossible ideals than really helping to keep us trim and stay healthy. Rethinking Thin offers the reader both a critique of the weight-loss industry and an account of the place of the diet in American society. Along with the social and historical overview, the author does not forget to offer some commonsense answers to questions about weight, eating habits, and obesity.
 Joy Bauer’s Food Cures: Easy 4-step Nutrition Programs for Improving Your Body
By Joy Bauer (615.854 BAU) (2007)
The foods we eat have an impact on our health whether for the better or the worse. Food Cures sets us up with a healthy nutrition program that can be tailored to fit your own life-style.
 Get Stronger, Feel Younger: The Cardio and Diet-Free Plan to Firm Up and Lose Fat
By Wayne Westcott and Gary Reinol (613.71 WES) (2007)
Noted fitness expert Wayne Westcott provides his proven strength-training and nutrition plan to show women how to get the body they want. The book offers 2 different strength programs that should meet the needs of any woman.
 Morning Yoga Workout
By Zack Kurland (613.7046 KUR) (2007)
Having the knowledge that exercising in the morning is the best way to maintain a regular exercise schedule is the premise of this work. Jack Kurland offers nine workouts from light, moderate, and intense sessions that last for varying periods of time. Warm-up routines are also included so that you can use them to prepare for other activities.
 Finding the Still Point: A Beginner’s Guide to Zen Meditation
By John Daido Loori (294.3443 LOO) (2007)
Loori, the celebrated founder of Zen Mountain Monastery in NY, distills his experience and wisdom into a basic illustrated guide for beginners that also includes a CD. The 1st section contains concise instructional essays while the 2nd encompasses a talk by Loori that imparts a direct expression of the Spirit of Zen.
 Cooking the Whole Foods Way: Your Complete, Everyday Guide to Health, Delicious Eating with 500 Vegan Recipes, Menus, Techniques, Meal Planning, Buying Tips, Wit, and Wisdom
By Christina Pirello. (641.563 PIR 2007, rev. edition) (2007)
Christina Pirello revised and updated the first edition of Cooking the Whole Foods Way and her new edition is now 100% Vegan. Her goal is to introduce readers to whole foods cooking that encourage health-conscious readers to cut out processed and chemically enhanced food, as well as dairy, sugar, and meat and embrace fruit, whole grains, vegetables, and beans.
 Cleveland Clinic Healthy Heart Lifestyle Guide and Cookbook
By Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, Bonnie Sanders Polin, and Frances Towner Giedt. (641.5631 POL) (2007)
The Cleveland Clinic, which has been ranked as the #1 heart hospital in US News & World Report, has just teamed with cookbook authors Polin and Giedt to create the most complete and easy-to-follow plan for preventing heart disease. The recipe plans provided cover a week’s worth of menus for each of the 3 caloric plans offered in the hope of taking the guesswork out of the planning.
 The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids Favorite Meals
By Missy Chase Lapine. (641.5622 LAP) (2007)
If you would like to learn how to create healthy dishes that will appeal to your child’s sense of taste then this is the book for you! The author’s philosophy consists of preparing healthy food that satisfies your child’s sense of taste. The key to most recipes in this book is to boost the vitamin content by blending and hiding healthful choices with tasty, kid friendly foods.
 The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace
By Martha Beck (613.25 BEC) (2007)
The woman Psychology Today calls “the best-known life coach in America” does her best to dispel the myth that willpower is the most effective weight loss tool available to us today. Martha Beck offers a straight forward approach to weight control that combines evolutionary logic, psychology and more with strategies, success stories, and humor to boot.
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