Reviews of cookbooks, diet and nutrition books.
I like the convenience of searching for a recipe online, but I love to spend time looking through cookbooks, turning the pages, looking at photos, or noting handy little tips and suggestions on each page. That's why I usually ask for new cookbooks for Christmas, or spend some of my gift cards on them. Here are four for your holiday list or for spending your gift cards on.
Overeating is a common problem. Michelle May, in "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat," break the cycle yet eat without guilt. David Kessler, in "The End of Overeating," shows us how the food industry manipulates consumers into eating more than they should.
Lisa Lillien, better known as Hungry Girl, shows us how to make slimmed-down meals and snacks to keep hunger at bay throughout our day. Using low-fat convenience foods and many sugar-free options, Hungry Girl manages to keep everything under 200 calories.
If you could use another cookbook or two on your shelf, a little humor and encouragement to continue on the path of weight loss, or a more earnest look at what's wrong with the way we eat, then here's a great list of books to add to your shelf.
Eat, Shrink & Be Merry is a pun-filled low-fat cookbook by Canada's Food Network stars Janet and Greta Podleski.
Lisa Lillien, better known as Hungry Girl, is obsessed with food. She's not a nutritionist or a chef. She's just hungry. Hungry Girl brings us recipes, tips and suggestions for indulging our food cravings with fewer calories, less fat and an extra dose of fiber. Find out whether this fun book is for you.
Diets are miserable, but there's a path you can take that will lead you along the road to Sveltesville. Janice Taylor, also known as Our Lady of Weight Loss, serves as your tour guide on this funny yet practical journey to the land of permanent fat removal. Who knew weight loss could be so much fun?
What to eat has become a complex question, to which Michael Pollan has a disarmingly simple answer: "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan challenges us to reject the ideology of nutritionism, one in which far too much time is spent poring over the role of individual nutrients, often in isolation, and far too little time on what's actually missing from our diet: variety.
Mindless Eating is a fascinating look at some of the reasons we eat more than we think. For many, eating has less to do with appetite and more to do with hidden cues that keep us reaching for more, long after we're full.
Janice Taylor's weight yo-yo'd until she discovered Our Lady of Weight Loss, an inspirational voice that helped her channel her food cravings into artistic creations. This funny and original self-help book takes on weight loss in an unorthodox way yet manages to provide a clear motivational message, as well as tips, low-fat recipes and much more.
From the editors of
Cook's Illustrated magazine and the home of
America's Test Kitchen public-television show, comes
The Best Light Recipe, which offers 300 light recipes that survived the rigors of countless tests and experiments to produce the best recipe possible for each lower fat dish.
The
Cooking Light Holiday Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to healthy, lower fat feasting from Thanksgiving to the New Year. With some smart ingredient substitutions, you can enjoy healthier holiday classics, as well as some new, innovative seasonal recipes.
The Food Substitutions Bible is an indispensable reference to find all kinds of substitute ingredients and the precise directions for using them. Find out what to do if you don't have the right size pan or a double boiler. For low fat cooks, there are plenty of healthier substitutions offered, as well as a few useful low fat cooking techniques.
The New American Plate Cookbook, published by the American Institute for Cancer Research, offers a way to achieve both a healthy weight and a healthier life through managing the portions and proportions of food on our plates.
Discover the secrets of low fat and fat-free Greek cooking in this practical and engaging look at Secrets of Fat-Free Greek Cooking by Elaine Gavalas.
According to "The Portion Teller," it's not what we eat that makes us fat but how much we eat. For too long we have equated portions with servings. "The Portion Teller" teaches us to size up our favorite foods through simple visuals such as a baseball, CD case or computer mouse, which are more easily understood than cups and tablespoons.
The "No-Fad Diet" is the American Heart Association's first foray into weight loss. As the title suggests, the No-Fad Diet shuns the notion of the quick fix and instead promotes safe and steady weight loss through healthy eating and increased physical activity.
Fit Food by Ellen Haas invites us to discover the 21 fit foods that can help us manage our weight and offer the best protection against chronic diseases. Fit Food emphasizes freshness and flavor, together with balance and variety.
Do diets leave you feeling hungry all the time? The Volumetrics Eating Plan teaches us to choose foods that help us feel fuller for longer, causing us to eat fewer calories overall.
Since 1987,
Cooking Light magazine has provided thousands of healthy and delicious recipes, which are perfect for those of us interested in low fat cooking. "The Best of Cooking Light" represents 500 of those recipes in a collection deemed by its editors to be their greatest hits. Here is your Guide to Low Fat Cooking's review.
