According to Baker and Taylor’s “Fast Facts,” the junior edition of a bestselling diet book will be featured on the 8/25 Today Show. Eat This Not That! for Kids will be pubbed by Rodale next week.

The earlier title, Eat This Not That! has been on the USA Today bestseller list since the end of December. It doesn’t show up on any of the New York Times lists, because they consider it a calorie counting book, which they do not track.

Most libraries I checked own the first book, but don’t have the second one on order. 

Eat This Not That! For Kids

David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding

• Paperback: $19.95
• Publisher: Rodale Books (August 19, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 160529943X
• ISBN-13: 978-1605299433

The media has already taken note of the fact that even an Oprah re-run can put books back on bestseller lists.

This was proved again this week, when You: Staying Young zoomed from a very respectable #349 to #5. What Oprah rerun aired yesterday? Yup; “Dr. Oz on Aging, How to Turn Back Time.” Library reserves shot up, too.

Last week’s rerun of a show with another Oprah regular, Dr. Christiane Northrup, sent her book The Wisdom of Menopause, up Amazon’s list to #21. The second edition of this title was released in 2006, but many libraries still own the 2001 edition. Given the number of changes in thinking about menopause, I wondered if that edition should be a candidate for withdrawal. I checked with the publisher, who provided this information on the updates:

The 2006 edition includes new information from the massive Women’s Health Initiative Study published in 2002. That study caused millions of women to abandon Prempro and other synthetic hormones. The new edition also includes information from another study released in early 2006 on the cardiovascular effects of HRT.

Other specific new features in the revised and updated edition include:

• Programs for enhancing sexuality and breast health and the reasons why sex can get better after menopause.
• Nutritional approaches to preventing osteoporosis and heart disease.
• Why maintaining a healthy insulin level is key to women’s health.
• The latest research on breast cancer and what you can do to prevent it.
• New ways to avoid hysterectomy, including innovative fibroid treatments.
• Understanding the hormone replacement controversy, how to take hormones safely, and a wealth of alternatives.
• New information on how to prevent dementia.

Rather than rely on old editions to help fill demand, it’s time to get rid of them and replace them with the new edition (the publisher says there are no immediate plans for a third edition).

The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change, 2nd Edition

Christiane Northrup

• Paperback: $20.00
• Publisher: Bantam; 2nd edition (October 31, 2006)
• ISBN-10: 0553384090
• ISBN-13: 978-0553384093

Today’s NY Times article on Lyme’s disease features two new books on the disease. Several of the libraries I checked do not own them.

Beating Lyme

Constance A. Bean and Dr. Lesley Ann Fein

• Paperback: $15.95
• Publisher: AMACOM (June 25, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 081440944X
• ISBN-13: 978-0814409442

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic

Pamela Weintraub

• Hardcover: $27.95
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Press; (June 10, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 0312378122
• ISBN-13: 978-0312378127

Currently, the most emailed article from the NY Times is based on the book, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why. The title of the blog, pubbed on Wednesday, is “The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating”

The book, which has averaged 1,908 in Amazon rankings, is now at 317. Libraries own it, with comfortable holds to copy ratios at this point.

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why

Jonny Bowden

• Paperback: $24.99
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press, (January 1, 2007)
• ISBN-10: 1592332285
• ISBN-13: 978-1592332281

According to the publisher’s web site, the author has a new book coming in January:

(The listed title differs from the one on the cover image):

150 Most Effective Ways to Boost Your Energy: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About How to Banish Fatigue and Stay Energized All Day

Jonny Bowden

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press ( January, 2009)
• ISBN-10: 1592333419
• ISBN-13: 978-1592333417

She will if Kathy Freston has anything to do with it. The “vegan spiritual counselor” was featured on Oprah’s makeover show yesterday. No surprise, then, that her book Quantum Wellness sprang to #2 on Amazon where it’s remained (after the #1 title, The Last Lecture, and ahead of Oprah Book Club Selection, A New Earth).

Most libraries have ordered modestly (a few not at all). Significant levels of holds are building.

Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness

Kathy Freston

• Hardcover: $23.95
• Publisher: Weinstein Books (May 20, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 1602860181
• ISBN-13: 978-1602860186

• Audio CD: listed as “currently unavailable” on Amazon
  
• Publisher: Weinstein Books (May 20, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 1602860270
• ISBN-13: 978-1602860278

USA Today’s “Book Buzz” column takes note of a new entry on their bestseller list, Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World by Lisa Lillien. It enters their list at #6, with 350,000 copies in print (it went out at 200,000).

We noted the book last month, when it went on the Amazon list prior to publication. It has since been reviewed by Library Journal:

Whether they taste great is debatable, but many of the soups, salads, and main courses are very high in sodium. Nevertheless, Hungry Girl [the web site[ has many fans, and there is sure to be demand

The book has remained in Amazon’s top ten since its debut on April 1 and is now at #7.

Hungry Girl:

Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World

by Lisa Lillien

• Paperback:$17.95
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (April 29, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 0312377428
• ISBN-13: 978-0312377427