Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
When Covert Bailey speaks, millions listen. This minister of the "no-more-diet-disasters" regime (and author of five best-sellers, including Fit or Fat) now proselytizes for a new type of smart eating, one that targets low-fat, low-sugar, high-fiber, and balanced and varied meals. As always, his advice is eminently sensible. Only the 200 recipes, unfortunately, fall short; though most will be very acceptable to the mainstream American palate, few show any originality or much added taste or flavor--the reason, sadly, that many low-fat diets fail. Nonetheless, expect requests at the circulation counter because of his name. Barbara Jacobs --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis
The companion volume to the best-selling Smart Exercise explains how to achieve and maintain one's ideal weight--without dieting--offering tips on finding the best foods to suit individual needs and including two hundred delicious and nutritious recipes. 150,000 first printing.

Synopsis
Covert Bailey has been saying it for years: diets don't work. In this companion to his best-selling Smart Exercise, Bailey offers a revolutionary way to think about food, nutrition, and weight loss, showing readers how to achieve and maintain their ideal weight--without ever dieting. Includes a four-color pull-out centerfold of the Smart Eating Food Target and 200 brand-new recipes.

The author, Ronda Gates (rgates@teleport.com) , July 29, 1999
Smart Eating updates the best-selling Fit or Fat Target Diet
The Smart Eating Target continues to be the most useful way for my audiences to understand and use basic nutrition concepts. If you want to lose weight, train for competition or just eat more healthfully, you can learn everything you need to know in this quick read. There are also more than 150 quick-to-fix, tasty recipes that conform to Smart Eating Target principles and a pull out poster in the center of the book.

Reviewer: A reader
This is the most sensible way to look at food I have discovered. I've heard Gates lecture and it's too bad her diet plan strategy is not in the book (she reported Bailey "lost interest" in the "writing process" of the book so this was excluded. You can write to Gates c/o P. O. Box 974, Lake Oswego, OR 97034.