January eBook of the Month Offers Practical Advice for Successful Weight Management and a Healthy Lifestyle

BOULDER, COLO.— NetLibrary, in Partnership with Que Publishing, will feature Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle as the January eBook of the Month. Written by registered dietician Nicole Haywood and endorsed by the National Institute for Fitness and Sport, Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle ignores fad diets and focuses on helping readers make the lifestyle changes necessary for successful weight management.

While the goal of every diet is weight loss, Haywood argues that most diets are designed to fail because they do not adequately address all the factors related to food choices.

• Diets focus on the scale instead of behavior changes.
• Diets do not often include, encourage, or promote physical activity.
• Diets do not require a lifestyle change.
• Diets have a beginning and an end.
• Diets create a parent/child relationship with food (being "good" or "bad" when you eat certain foods) that frequently leads to rebellious eating.
• Diets do not require you to change the way you think about food.

Instead of focusing on body weight as the sole or most important measure of success, Haywood advises readers to start by letting go of the notion of perfection when it comes to health and start thinking about the process. The author won't suggest radical changes or unobtainable goals, but instead, concentrates on showing readers how to make daily modifications to their diet and activities that build the foundation for a healthy lifestyle.

Unlike quick-fix solutions that never work, or the latest celebrity-endorsed weight loss gimmick, Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle outlines a sensible and practical plan that combines nutrition, physical activity, and most importantly, life balance. By getting back to the basics, readers will achieve long-lasting results and improve their overall health and fitness.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to a Lite and Healthy Lifestyle will be provided with unlimited access to participating libraries January 1-31. To help libraries promote the January eBook of the Month, NetLibrary has developed a tool kit of free promotional materials that includes print-on-demand bookmarks, a sample press release, and electronic support materials. More information is available at:

http://library.netlibrary.com/eBookOfTheMonth.aspx

About the Author

Nicole Haywood is the Wellness Coordinator at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport. She is a registered dietitian and has a Master of Arts in Family and Consumer Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics. Nicole specializes in the treatment of obesity through behavior modification and developing healthy eating patterns. She coordinates several weight management programs and lectures on nutrition, fitness and wellness topics for corporate and community groups. Nicole also provides individual nutrition consultations showing people how wellness relates to management of life-threatening diseases like high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes and much more.

About Que Publishing

Que publishes reference books on subjects as diverse as computing, consumer electronics, home organization, and crafts and hobbies. Whether you need to learn the latest computer program, organize your garage, or want to take great vacation photos with your digital camera, Que Publishing provides the solutions you need to maximize your limited time at work or at home.

About NetLibrary

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, NetLibrary (www.netlibrary.org) is a division of Online Computer Library Center, Inc., a worldwide library cooperative. NetLibrary provides content and technical delivery solutions to institutional libraries, corporations and government agencies that facilitate the purchase, management and distribution of research, reference, digital learning, and general interest content via Web-based technologies. NetLibrary's eContent solution is the most broadly adopted in the market, making the content of more than 400 publishers and eContent providers available through more than 13,000 libraries worldwide.