Put down that diet soda! Drop that fat-free cheese! Forget those diet frozen dinners! Christine Avanti, a clinical and sports nutritionist, and co-author Bonnie Bauman advise a back-to-basics approach. Getting off the low-calorie, fat-free merry-go-round and turning to “real” food is their answer to losing weight: and by real food they mean anything made from fresh, whole, natural unprocessed ingredients. Factory food, the name that the authors give to processed foods, is the colorized, emulsified, texturized, stabilized enemy. (Published by Rodale)