http://www.ebooks.com/Food-and-WineFeatured Food and Wine titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/5/2009 8:20:09 AMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=19750820090511.19750811/5/2009 8:20:09 AM When Mehmet O or any of New York's leading doctors have a patient whose life depends on losing weight, they call on Joel Fuhrman, M.D. In Eat to Live , Dr. Fuhrman offers his healthy, effective, and scientifically proven plan for shedding radical amounts of weight quickly, and keeping it off.Losing weight under Dr. Fuhrman's plan is not about will power, it is about knowledge. The key to this revolutionary diet is the idea of nutrient density, as expressed by the simple formula, Health http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=23931820090511.23931811/5/2009 8:20:09 AMThe bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef " ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) is now a major motion picture. Audiobook read by the author and value-priced! Directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on April 19, 2009. The film is based on this bestselling memoir in which Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=29033420090511.29033411/5/2009 8:20:09 AMIn his New York Times bestselling book, UltraMetabolism, Dr. Mark Hyman unveiled his groundbreaking but simple plan for automatic weight loss. Never before had all seven keys to permanent weight loss been integrated into a single plan. 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