The 3-Hour Diet for Teens: Lose Weight and Feel Great in Two Weeks!
Grade 7 Up—Under the über-enthusiastic facade of hype and marketing that burdens this book, readers will find a sensible weight-loss plan. Focused on keeping blood sugar levels constant by eating a small meal every three hours, it emphasizes the need for controlled portions and balanced nutrients. Cruise laces the text with interviews with teens who have successfully lost weight on this diet and packs in plenty of practical tips for following it in the midst of busy schedules. The promise of a healthy loss of two pounds per week, paired with the balanced nutrition advice, takes this out of the fad diets category. The book concludes with a section of recipes and lists of healthy snack and fast-food choices. While the basic information is sound, the author devotes 50 pages to a personal journal, complete with daily tips and visualization exercises, where teens are to record progress and keep a food diary, decreasing the book's suitability for libraries. A comprehensive, straightforward, common-sense treatment of weight loss that lacks the hype can be found in Michael D. Lebow'sOverweight Teenagers: Don't Bear the Burden Alone(Basic Bks., 2003).—Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KSCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.