Recently took two large bags full of second-hand store diet books. The ride itself alone should have burnt out of at least 12 calories. Everything from self-published low budget stories, entitled through bestsellers like the South Beach Diet and other imitators.
I could not help thinking about how little difference have actually made these books. Some are intentional, good self-help guides while other books are little more than grabbing money fluff.
How many diet books grace their shelves (or Kindle or iPad...)?
In the last 6 years publishers have been send me books for review.At first it was interesting - but after a few years hit a fatigue point.The temptation to fall into cynicism was difficult to resist - there was very little new perspective being written.
Most editors would be time its release for a few days after Christmas - date "diet season".unas six weeks later most of the books that are gathering dust on the shelves of the país.A weigh this each year a plethora of books hit the market, and to be brutally honest, most are of the same information repeatedly overheated.
The age of the diet "in" seems envelope - or so or what is "hot" falls into a cycle of increasingly shorter and faster.
To be fair, there are many interesting books that come out to offer a useful or passionate angle on diet and weight loss, but it's a minority.
There is a station for all
I note that what is popular in the diet is almost cyclic. The oldest diets can return to fashion as if it were something new. The major diets simply maintained with new editions every few years.
What the bestseller list tells us...
Read a diet of Amazon bestseller reveals:
Diets of paleo currently on the menu (solution of paleo diet of paleo, the Blueprint Primal) .Puntales go to Mark Sisson the Blueprint Primal author: he maintains an excellent and passionate blog.rehashed versions of old favorites are still coming - the new Atkins and South Beach Diet Supercharged.And...(Yes the cynicism is back)-the thin blond women are good at selling books...
Still buy diet books?
