Articles Index
The Scoop on Portion Control: How Healthy Steps Tools Measure Up
How much we eat matters almost as much as what we eat, but we often have a hard time figuring out portion sizes. Healthy Steps kitchen tools help take the guesswork out of this with a a line of nifty portion-control products. But are they worth your money?
Low Fat Cooking Book Review - The New American Plate Cookbook
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.
The Food Substitutions Bible - by David Joachim
The Food Substitutions Bible by David Joachim is an indispensable reference to find all kinds of substitute ingredients and the precise directions for using them. But The Food Substitutions Bible is not confined only to food. Find out what to do if you don't have the right size baking pan or a double boiler to hand. For low fat cooks, there are plenty of healthier substitutions offered, as well as a few useful low fat cooking techniques.
What's In Your Bowl?
If you need a quick and easy way to figure out how much cereal to put into your breakfast bowl or what a cup of soup looks like, then Measure Up Bowls may be just for you. But do they measure up? Find out in my review of Measure Up Bowls.
Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200 - 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories
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.
Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
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.
The Cooking Light Holiday Cookbook
The Cooking Light Holiday Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to healthy, lower fat feasting from Thanksgiving to New Year's. With some smart ingredient substitutions, you can enjoy healthier holiday classics, as well as some new, innovative seasonal recipes.
Eat, Shrink & Be Merry by Janet and Greta Podleski
Eat, Shrink & Be Merry is a pun-filled low-fat cookbook by Canada's Food Network stars Janet and Greta Podleski.
Hungry Girl by Lisa Lillien
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.
All is Forgiven, Move On by Janice Taylor
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?
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
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.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan by Barbara Rolls
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.
Philadelphia Ready To Eat Cheesecake Filling
Sometimes convenience comes at a price. Philadelphia's Ready To Eat Cheesecake Filling delivers an awful lot of total and saturated fat for a rather unsatisfying product.
Al Fresco Chicken Sausages - A Review
Al Fresco Chicken Sausages have 75% less fat than regular pork links. They're also low carb. With more than a dozen different flavors to choose from, and with no artificial preservatives or fillers, they sounded pretty good. Did they live up to their promise?
Fit Food by Ellen Haas
"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.
The Best of Cooking Light
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.
The No-Fad Diet
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.
The Portion Teller
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.
Secrets of Fat-Free Greek Cooking by Elaine Gavalas
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.
The Best Light Recipe
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.
Our Lady of Weight Loss by Janice Taylor
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.