By Dr. Gillian McKeith
Plume; $16; 223 pages
This book is like having a smart nutritionist in your pocket. To start the program, keep a food diary for a week — 100% honesty, please — and assess your real eating habits ("There is often very little correlation between the first utterance of 'I eat healthily' and the practical reality.") Keep all the packaging from everything that you eat and drink, healthy or unhealthy, for those seven days. Put everything in a large box or bag. By the end of the week, you'll be hip to your personal dietary situation. To get into a more healthful groove, cut out sugar, junk food, salt, and white rice; eat more raw fruits and vegetables. Exercise every day — for health, better sleep, a better mood, and even a better sex life. Drink more water, and don't shop when you're hungry. In short, this book is a helpful compendium of nutritional wisdom.
— Andrea Sachs