Spring Hardcovers: Health, Fitness & Beauty

Azure Moon

(dist. by IPG)

Essential Eating: The Digestible Diet (Apr., $26.95) by Janie Quinn offers a program of eating digestible, chemical-free food as the key to weight loss and restored health. $25,000 ad/promo.

Ballantine

Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Best of Your Life (Apr., $26.95) by Shawn Phillips with Pete Williams presents a three-phase fitness program for people with busy schedules. Ad/promo.

Benbella Books

Fat Families, Thin Families: How to Save Your Family from the Obesity Trap (June, $24.95) by Amy Hendel guides families in developing healthy eating habits.

Broadway Books

Are You Ready! to Take Charge, Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Change Your Life Forever (Apr., $22.95) by Bob Harper. The Biggest Loser fitness instructor provides practical advice and psychological insights.

Collins

YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition (Apr., $26.95) by Mehmet Oz, M.D., and Michael Roizen, M.D., provides a myth-breaking prescription for total body health.

Wear Your Life Well: Use What You Have to Get What You Want (Apr., $24.95) by Marilu Henner offers women a motivational lifestyle guide.

Champions Body-for-Life (June, $26.95) by the Body-for-Life champions and challengers and Art Carey recounts the success stories of individuals who have followed the Body-for-Life plan.

Crown

Medical Myths That Can Kill You: and the 101 Truths That Will Save, Extend, and Improve Your Life (May, $24.95) by Nancy Snyderman, M.D., reveals the truth about eight of the most common and dangerous health myths. 150,000 first printing.

Da Capo Lifelong

Cancer on Five Dollars a Day: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life (Mar., $22) by Robert Schimmel with Alan Eisenstock. One of Comedy Central's 100 greatest comics muses about his battle with cancer.

The Venus Week (May, $24) by Rebecca Booth, M.D., explains the secrets of managing weekly hormonal changes.

DK

Sex: How to Do It (May, $25) by Em and Lo, photos by Rankin, teaches people who love sex how to improve techniques and expand horizons.

Free Press

The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Mar., $26) by Brenda Watson details methods for rejuvenating the body and mind and reversing the effects of aging. Ad/promo.

Hatherleigh Press

The Park Avenue Plan for Weight Loss (Apr., $25.95) by Stuart Fischer, M.D., outlines a physical, behavioral and psychological plan for better health and good looks.

Hudson Street Press

Men in Bed (Apr., $23.95) by Barbara Keesling addresses women who are determined to forge a more satisfying sex life.

Mandala

(dist. by PGW)

Yoga: The Greater Tradition (May, $12.95) by David Frawley explains yoga's spiritual teachings.

McGraw-Hill

Body Electric: Strong, Toned and Sexy at Every Age (Apr., $24.95) by Margaret Richard. The host of PBS's Body Electric explains how women can feel stronger and more vital through their 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond.

National Geographic

The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest (Apr., $26) by Dan Buettner draws on research from long-lived communities around the globe. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

W.W. Norton

How to Use Herbs, Nutrients, and Yoga in Mental Health Care (June, $24.95) by Richard P. Brown, M.D., et al. offers a guide for enhancing mental health. A Norton Professional Book for Psychotherapists.

Perigee

Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-being (May, $23.95) by Rick Foster et al. posits that adopting a simple set of behaviors can biochemically enhance health.

Prion/Carlton

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/ipg)

Things Women Should Know About Beauty (June, $16) by Karen Homer puts forth practical advice on makeup, hair care, diet and cosmetic surgery.

Reader's Digest Books

Sleep to Be Sexy, Smart & Slim: Get the Best Sleep of Your Life Tonight and Every Night! (Apr., $24.95) by Ellen Michaud with Julie Bain suggests tips and strategies to eliminate sleep problems.

Rodale

The South Beach Diet Supercharged (Apr., $25.95) by Arthur Agatston, M.D., with Joseph Signorile combines a metabolism-revving program with principles of the original South Beach Diet. 500,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

The Mario Lopez Workout (May, $27.95) by Mario Lopez presents a three-stage workout program. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

Univ. of California Press

The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype About Your Health (June, $21.95) by Robert J. Davis helps readers think critically about health and fitness information.

Univ. of Missouri Press

Recognizing and Surviving Heart Attack and Strokes: Lifesaving Advice You Need Now (Apr.; $34.95, paper $17.95) by Glenn O. Turner with Mark Bruce Rosin informs readers about early warning signs and how to respond.

Univ. of North Carolina Press

Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (June, $28) by Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., urges consumers to make informed decisions about health care and prescriptions.

Wellness Central

Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet: A Weight Loss Plan for Real Women (Apr., $24.99) by India Knight and Neris Thomas. Two friends who found themselves looking like “eggs on legs” gather humorous and practical instruction. Ad/promo.