Cover of the book "The 17 Day Diet Cookbook: 80...

Cover of the book "The 17 Day Diet Cookbook: 80 All New Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss" Credit: Handout

THE 17 DAY DIET COOKBOOK: 80 All New Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss, by Dr. Mike Moreno. Free Press, 198 pp., $26.00.

"Dr. Mike," a San Diego family medical practitioner who motivates his patients by leading walks twice weekly, is a phenomenon.

Traditional publishers wooed him after he successfully self-published "The 17 Day Diet" -- and now the book has been on bestseller lists for more than a year. He's since published a workbook, and more.

Here comes the cookbook.

Moreno writes that the diet "is the best thing since the sliced bread you'll give up (but only for the first 2 cycles)."

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