1.   Diet books can work similarly, by offering readers inspiration and a new strategy toward weight loss or better health.

2.   I started buying exercise and diet books.

3.   Americans love to buy diet books.

4.   B ook publishers dish out a stream of diet books and health cookbooks targeted at particular problems.

5.   Cookbooks always sell, even as diet books do.

6.   Most nutritionists, doctors and researchers who are not peddling diet books or diet products are unimpressed with all the diet fads.

7.   That statistic has been quoted widely over the last four decades, in congressional hearings, diet books, research papers and seminars.

8.   The only books Americans buy more than diet books are cookbooks.

9.   There were diet books and natural-food books and meatless main-dish books.

10.   What I find so annoying about diet books is their usual emphasis on eat-one-way-or-else.