In the USA, there’s a balance between the more traditional low-fat diets (Hungry Girl, China Study, Now Eat This!) and paleo / low-carb (Atkins, Why We Get Fat) diets. Most of these diets lean towards unprocessed foods. The 4-Hour Body is moving down the list – it includes a complex calorie-cycling diet, with restrictions 6 days of the week (no white carbohydrates, eat the same meals over and over, don’t drink calories, don’t eat fruit) and then 1 day of overeating everything. The Dukan Diet is about to be issued and pre-sales are high.
In the UK, The Dukan Diet continues to rule the roost. This consists of an initiation phase of eating lean-protein-rich foods only, then a weight loss phase with protein plus some vegetables for weight loss, then phase 3 with added fruit, bread, cheese and starchy foods, and then a lifetime phase of eating what you want with only protein on Thursdays. The 4-Hour Body is still going strong.
| USA | Diets and weight loss | Nutrition | Special diets | Disorders and diseases |
| 1 | The 17 Day Diet | The China Study | Hungry Girl 300 Under 300 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
| 2 | Hungry Girl 300 Under 300 | The Paleo Diet Cookbook | Now Eat This! Diet | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
| 3 | Now Eat This! Diet | The Paleo Solution | Now Eat This! | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
| 4 | The 4-Hour Body | The Paleo Diet | If It Makes You Healthy | Taking Charge of Your Fertility |
| 5 | New Atkins for a New You | Why We Get Fat | The Paleo Diet Cookbook | Anticancer |
| UK | Diets & Healthy Eating | Diet & Nutrition | Special diets |
| 1 | Dukan Diet Recipe Book | The Dukan Diet | Erica White’s Beat Candida Cookbook |
| 2 | The 4-Hour Body | Dukan Diet Recipe Book | The PCOS Diet Book |
| 3 | I Can Make You Thin | The 4-Hour Body | The Liver Cleansing Diet |
| 4 | Baby-Led Weaning | The Dukan Diet | Weight Watchers: The Pure Points Cookbook |
| 5 | The New High Protein Diet | I Can Make You Thin | Seven Weeks to Sobriety |
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