Publishers Weekly - November 9, 2015

Gone are the days when diet and fitness readers readily swallowed eating and exercise advice without wanting to know more about the science behind it. Recently, titles in the genre have appealedtoconsumers’nerdyside, andthisseason’s books, which cover topics ranging from biology to exercise metrics to the psychology of eating, are no different.

Several books address age-old wellness topics—such as how to lose weight and how to look younger—with an added emphasis on the science behind them. The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss by integrative

going as fast as you can—only faster than before.”
Other titles due this season apply therapeutic practices to
diet and fitness. Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching
Program for Permanent Weight Loss by psychologist Joseph J.
Luciani (Amacom, Jan. 2016) offers techniques for breaking
habits that negatively effect wellness. Amacom senior editor
Stephen Power says, “Everyone is becoming more sophisticated
and self-aware when it comes to their own habits, and books
like these help them ‘hack’ their brains.”
In a more clinical vein, Motivational
Interviewing for Nutrition and Fitness by
Dawn Clifford and Laura Curtis (Guilford,
Jan. 2016) addresses diet and exercise
through motivational interviewing,
a technique that was developed in the
1980s and is often used to treat
addiction.

Jim Nageotte, senior editor at Guilford, says motivational interviewing “offers an alternative to coercive, top-down approaches to getting people to change.” Echoing the spirit of many of this season’s health titles, he adds, “You could think of it as the opposite of tough love.”

AMACOM’s GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING FIT.

PB • $16.95 • 978-0-8144-3485-7 PB • $18.95 • 978-0-8144-4900-4 PB • $16.95 • 978-0-8144-3622-6 JANUARY 2016

PB • $16.95 • 978-0-8144-3678-8 “Strategies to get even the most sedentary people off their duffs, starting with ways to overcome past failures and negative feelings about exercise.”

— The New York Times

“A plan for maintaining flexibility, balance, strength, and cardiovascular health in a clear, non-patronizing style that will appeal to readers of all ages . . . especially for the 40 plus.”

— Library Journal

“Nutrition can be complex, even intimidating. Luckily, a new book has come out, Eat Like a Champion . . . a must-read for athletes, and particularly parents.”