Harriet Roth's Fat Counter

A new revised edition of the bestselling Fat Counter now with updated material on trans fats, carbs, and sugar!

Americans have more food choices and more to watch out for than ever. Research suggests that trans-fat, carbohydrates, and sugar can be major diet-busters. It's key to cut down on dietary fat and saturated fat in particular, and watch food labels. In this third revised edition of her bestselling guide, Harriet Roth offers the additional feature of trans fat, sugar and carb counts-and updates her listings to include the newest supermarket products, fast food, and restaurant foods.

One of the country's foremost experts on healthy eating, Harriet Roth, has revised and updated her wildly popular original Fat Counter book to include foods introduced on the market since 1992. The book lists the amount of calories, fat, percentage of calories from fat, cholesterol, saturated fat and sodium counts for literally thousands of foods. The book also shows readers their ideal body weight and how to calculate calorie amounts and types needed to lose or maintain weight. Roth also de-mystifies the many confusing terms food manufacturers use on their labels, to help you make smart choices when shopping.

Harriet Roth is the former director of the Pritikin Longevity Center Cooking School and the author of the bestselling cookbooks Deliciously Simple, Deliciously Low, and Harriet Roth's Cholesterol-Control Cookbook (all Plume). She lives in Los Angeles, California.