Fat-Be-Gone in Pulp Form
In my December blog You: On a Diet Now, I previewed the 2007 edition of LJ’s annual diet and fitness roundup, and I’m back to flog it now that it’s live on the web. “‘Tis the Season To Move Your Body” is the perfect accompaniment to all those gym membership drives going on right now (according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportclub Association, January remains the most popular time to join up, followed by February). This year’s starred titles impressed me with their spin. Tricia Cunningham and Heidi Skolnik’s The Reverse Diet argues for eating dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner, while Steven Gurgevich and Joy Gurgevich’s The Self-Hypnosis Diet stresses meditation to keep a strong body-mind connection. I don’t fancy myself a fitness guru, but I do promise librarians this: order a healthy portion of these books, and watch your circulation go through the ceiling.


