(HealthNewsDigest.com) - In the last decade Americans have gained a total of more than 1 billion pounds -- 68% weigh too much. Wherever you turn people are talking about calories. Eat too many you gain. Eat too few and you lose. Move and you burn calories faster and lose weight quicker. The Calorie Counter, 6^h Edition, just released, by Karen J. Nolan, PhD and Jo-Ann Heslin, MA, RD, CDN is the most comprehensive calorie counter and the least expensive, most effective, diet book in the marketplace with calorie counts for over 20,000 foods and 112 restaurant chains.

The most successful diet in the US today is what people call "my own diet."

Forget fads. With the sound advice, support, and calorie information found in The Calorie Counter, 6^th Edition the reader can design their own diet that will work for them. The book helps you understand calories - what are they and where are they found. You will appreciate the portion distortion that has happened with serving sizes over the last 30 years and recognize what a realistic food portion should look like.

To help you finally get a handle on your weight issues, the books helps you set a target weight and determine the number of calorie you need each day. Losing weight is more than just cutting calories. You need to be able to sort out dieting myths and truths. Did you know that skipping meals does not cut calories? Food you eat at night is not more fattening than food you eat during the day. And, water is a powerful calorie burner. Learn more about these and other myths in the book.

To lose weight you need to get a handle on mindless eating - food decisions about which you give little thought. Did you know you that each of us makes over 112 food decisions every day? Learn how to make these decisions work for you, not against you.

The road to success is always under construction. Dieting is no different and every dieter has encountered speedbumps that derail success. The Calorie Counter, 6^th ed. helps you over and around these obstacles. We appreciate that you are painting yourself into the picture of slimmer, fitter you and occasionally you will paint outside the lines. We know that habits are hard, but not impossible, to change and you need strategies to get over the rough patches.

For the guys out there who don't want to admit they need to diet, but appreciate that they need to lose that paunch around the middle, there is a special chapter on dieting for men. When men cut calories they lose weight faster than women. Find out how.

Moving is critical to burn extra calories and build muscles which in turn burns more calories than fat. The book offers an easy way to calculate the calories you use from exercise as well as everyday activities - weeding the garden and washing floors counts.

And, if all this is not enough, the book is sprinkled with YOU SHOULD KNOW highlight boxes offering quirky, entertaining, useful tips and information that will help make weight loss more successful.

Walk More - Weigh Less offers a step-per-day recommendation to drop pounds

It May Be Women's Brains And Not Their Stomachs That Lead To Overeating

Sleep Too Little, Weigh Too Much

Calorie Cost Of Love

And, many many more --

A decisive 2012 research study out of Harvard (noted in the book) showed once again that the composition of the diet (low carb, high carb, high protein, low fat or high fat) is not the key to weight loss and weight maintenance - it is the amount of calories eaten that counts!

The Calorie Counter, 6^th Edition, Karen J. Nolan, PhD and Jo-Ann Heslin, MA, RD, Pocket Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4516-2163-1. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Calorie-Counter-6th-Edition/Jo-Ann-Heslin/978145162163

© NRH Nutrition Consultants, Inc.

Jo-Ann Heslin, MA, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian and the author of the nutrition counter series for Pocket Books with sales of more than 8.5 million books.

Look for:

The Most Complete Food Counter, 3^rd ed., 2013

The Calorie Counter, 6^th Ed., 2013

The Complete Food Counter, 4^th ed., 2012

The Diabetes Counter, 4^th Ed., 2011

The Protein Counter, 3^rd Ed., 2011

The Ultimate Carbohydrate Counter, 3^rd Ed., 2010

The Fat Counter, 7^th ed., 2009

The Healthy Wholefoods Counter, 2008

The Cholesterol Counter, 7^th Ed., 2008

Your Complete Food Counter App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/your-complete-food-counter/id444558777?mt=8

For more information on Jo-Ann and her books, go to: www.TheNutritionExperts.com.

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