Now available in Spanish, the bestselling book in which a leaner Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shares his secrets for creating better health habits that last a lifetime.

Among the scores of diet books and media reports on the growing obesity epidemic in America, comes a no-nonsense approach to weight loss and long term weight maintenance. Obesity is a Self-Inflicted Wound - Stop Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork is a hard-hitting, take no prisoners response to the obesity challenge from a five foot, ten inch West Point graduate, who went from a lean 163 pounds to 210 in less than twenty months. The book describes his personal journey from here to obesity and back. How he allowed his weight to get out of control and the short term tactical plan that took the weight off and the long term strategy that has kept it off for more than 50 years. He challenges you to take charge of your life without reliance on pills, creams, lotions, risky surgery and a multitude of other non-effective programs. The book also addresses the scope and magnitude of the obesity epidemic, confusing and conflicting standards that define overweight and obesity, the multi-billion diet industry with a vested interest in a continuing supply of fat people and the increasing role of federal, state and local governments in the "war on obesity".

Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it’s not calories—but concepts—that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the “Fall of Man” as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. Bitar reads each diet—the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet—as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. Diet and the Disease of Civilization unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world.

The media labeled Steve Reynolds ?The Anti-Fat Pastor after he lost more than 100 pounds and launched a stunningly successful weight-loss program in his church and community. In Bod 4 God, Pastor Steve reveals the four keys that have unlocked the door to health and fitness for him and for countless others who have dedicated their bodies to God! Steve had been overweight all of his life? he weighed over 100 pounds in the first grade! After playing football during high school and college, he vowed never to exercise or run laps again. That was one promise he kept, ballooning to 340 pounds and staying there for years. Now, in Bod 4 God, he shares the simple lifestyle changes? both inside and out? that led to his incredible weight loss, and he invites readers to change their lives forever by committing their bodies to Gods glory! In addition, Steve shows local churches how to impact the health of their entire community, by hosting? Losing to Live?? Events, such as weight-loss competitions and team-driven fitness campaigns.

Based on the popular and award-winning "Washington Post" column, this simple eight-week program is designed to help readers eat less and move more to achieve a healthier weight for life.