Sonoma Diet

The California Wine Country Diet, by Haven Logan, is the real deal.

It's a book about weight loss and weight management that actually covers all the bases. It makes no false promises, no eye-catching claims. Indeed - the book's cover is more like a coffee-table wine book than a glitzy diet book. I suspect there has been a deliberate choice not to embellish the book with hype.

Every year a plethora of diet and weight loss books are published. Many of these books are released in January - the "diet season" - together they represent the good, the bad, and the ugly of weight loss advice. Why do some diets become so popular - yet others barely get noticed?

Is it the quality of the book? Or the proven effectiveness of the diet? Is it to do with value for money?