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.
1. Cooking Light Complete Cookbook: A Fresh New Way to Cook
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A kitchen-friendly, binder-format cookbook with more than 1,000 recipes, 140 menus, hundreds of tips and shortcuts, and a bonus CD with 100 menus, and 40 how-to videos. This is a great gift for the health-conscious cook who loves to eat well.
2. All is Forgiven, Move On by Janice Taylor
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If you ditch your diet at the drop of a doughnut, this book is for you. After years of yo-yo dieting, Janice Taylor lost, or rather permanently removed, 50 pounds. Find out how to pick yourself up and continue along the road to everlasting weight loss in All is Forgiven, Move On.
3. Hungry Girl by Lisa Lillien
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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 fun, easy recipes (with zany titles), and plenty of tips and suggestions for indulging our food cravings with fewer calories, less fat and an extra dose of fiber.
4. Eat, Shrink & Be Merry by Janet and Greta Podleski
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From the ladies who brought us bestselling low-fat cookbooks "Looneyspoons" and James Beard Award nominee, "Crazy Plates," comes another zany collection of low-fat recipes for the common cook. The Canadian Food Network stars pack their book with tips, trivia and 'funky factoids.' Be prepared for some groan-inducing titles, such as "In Cod We Trust" and "Lord of the Wings."
5. Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2009
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If the Cooking Light Complete Cookbook isn't enough, there's always Cooking Light's annual collection of recipes, which brings us more than 1,000 delicious recipes from the past year's magazines. This is good news for those of us who avidly clip recipes from each issue and struggle to find them thereafter. As usual, Cooking Light offers plenty of innovative blends of ingredients, as well as lots of tips, suggestions and menu ideas.
6. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
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In Defense of Food is neither a weight-loss book nor a low-fat cookbook, but it is a highly readable, eminently reasonable look at what ails us nutritionally. In seven short words, and in a mere 200 or so pages, Michael Pollan offers us a way out of our diet woes. His advice is disarmingly simple: "Eat Food. Not too Much. Mostly Plants."
