New Diet Book Highlights

I’ve gotten the impression from several articles I’ve read online that December and January is the season for new diet tomes. Makes sense, of course, considering that sensible people will be looking to work off the holiday overindulgence and ever-hopeful people will be making New Year’s resolutions to lose weight (again).

This particular article from the Time web site, linked to by CNN Health, gives a round-up of 10 books released recently that claim to be the solution for your weight problem. Unfortunately, the author does not dig into the books too much, giving you little idea of what the diets involve (for example, I’ve read elsewhere that the Hot Chick book recommends eating piles of spinach for its fiber and, thus, laxative effects, but the article from Time gives me no confirmation or denial of that odd recommendation).

It would also be nice to see a little more, well, meanness, I guess, in the evaluation of each book. Some of these are from real crackpots, who have little to back up their claims, and the mostly gentle summaries here are not going to save people from wasting their time and money.

But anyway. It’s a bit informative and includes more books than any other piece I’ve seen so far.

Time.com: 10 Notable Diet Books of 2008