101 Beauty Tips: The Modern Woman's Complete Guide to Looking and Feeling Great

Review
Jane Cunningham explores not only the latest advances in the beauty biz, but also time-tested means of looking your best. (Joanne Sasvari Calgary Herald 20070605)

Packed with useful health and beauty tips and inspirational photographs (Tanya Enberg Toronto 24 Hours 30070502)

The tips are simply, easy to follow and -- especially important -- inexpensive. (Wire Story Sacramento Bee 20070606)

The tips are simple, easy to follow and -- especially important -- inexpensive. (The Modesto Bee 20070624)

Will give a healthy foundation for a long-term approach. (Terry Peters North Shore News )

An excellent cross-section of ideas.... 101 Beauty Tips gives us 101 reasons to love the book. (Paul Sutter Shelf Life )

A comprehensive guide to looking great at any age.

Beauty products' excessive advertising and outlandish promises stretch the rational limits of what cosmetics can actually do. 101 Beauty Tips is a reminder that beauty and wellness do not come from ajar, but from a balance of good nutrition, exercise and relaxation. And this comprehensive book shows how to achieve that balance.

101 Beauty Tips is an informative guide to the newest alternative beauty and health treatments as well as the latest advances in traditional products. The author takes an approach that women will find user-friendly and convenient. She discusses the best in cosmetology advances and provides tips on everything from exfoliation, hair styling and eye shadow, to cellulite, posture, essential oils and reflexology. Highlights include:

* Nutrition for healthier hair
* Gels and serums, and how to use them
* Applying makeup for face shape
* Minimizing wrinkles
* Achieving the right combination of fats, vitamins and minerals
* Understanding food cravings
* Exercising on the go
* Sleep hygiene
* Fake tans that save the skin.

There are illustrations and sidebars throughout. With dozens of ideas that women can apply daily, plus how-to photographs and clear instructions, 101 Beauty Tips is an indispensable guide.

Olive Oil Desserts: Delicious and Healthy Heart Smart Baking

Those yearning to create more healthy treats will learn how to bake without the fats and hydrogenated oils found in common dessert recipes with this lavishly illustrated cookbook. Designed specifically for baking with olive oil, the recipes eliminate key ingredients—butter, hydrogenated oils, margarine, and shortening—that are staples in many traditional desserts. In addition to household favorites such as toll cookies, brownies, and apple pie, the cookbook features instructions for making more than 60 mouth-watering treats, among them chocolate chip buttermilk cake, silky cheesecake with strawberries, lemon sugar cookies, pecan coconut bars, and apple cinnamon rolls. Hints such as using egg substitutes and other ingredients to further lower cholesterol intake, substituting lactose-free options for those suffering from milk sensitivities, and a guide to the many varieties of olive oil are also included.

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

Aimed at nothing less than totally restructuring the diets of Americans, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy may well accomplish its goal. Dr. Walter C. Willett gets off to a roaring start by totally dismantling one of the largest icons in health today: the USDA Food Pyramid that we all learn in elementary school. He blames many of the pyramid's recommendations--6 to 11 servings of carbohydrates, all fats used sparingly--for much of the current wave of obesity. At first this may read differently than any diet book, but Willett also makes a crucial, rarely mentioned point about this icon: "The thing to keep in mind about the USDA Pyramid is that it comes from the Department of Agriculture, the agency responsible for promoting American agriculture, not from the agencies established to monitor and protect our health." It's no wonder that dairy products and American-grown grains such as wheat and corn figure so prominently in the USDA's recommendations.

Willett's own simple pyramid has several benefits over the traditional format. His information is up-to-date, and you won't find recommendations that come from special-interest groups. His ideas are nothing radical--if we eat more vegetables and complex carbohydrates (no, potatoes are not complex), emphasize healthy fats, and enjoy small amounts of a tremendous variety of food, we will be healthier. You'll find some surprises as well, such as doubts about the overall benefits of soy (unless you're willing to eat a pound and a half of tofu a day), and that nuts, with their "good" fat content, are a terrific snack. Relying on research rather than anecdotes, this is a solidly written nutritional guide that will show you the real story behind how food is digested, from the glycemic index for carbs to the wisdom of adding a multivitamin to your diet. Willett combines research with matter-of-fact language and a no-nonsense tone that turns academic studies into easily understandable suggestions for living