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Article: `No-Fad Diet' uses a real-food strategy.(Life - Health)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- June 14, 2005
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Byline: TRACY ORMSBEE Senior editor/features
No pills, no all-the-bacon-you-can-eat, no prepackaged foods, points or group weigh-ins.
No magic.
That's what's in the "No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss" (Clarkson/Potter Publishers; $24.95; 445 pages), released Thursday by the American Heart Association: a book that uses charts and goal-setting strategies to help you understand your own eating patterns and nutritional needs, then supplies meal plans and recipes to help achieve your goals.
It's the AHA's answer to the obesity crisis facing Americans, where at last count, 65 percent of the population was overweight and ...