WEIGHT LOSS,
BY THE BOOK
Staring at shelves bulging with diet books promising quick weight loss and a picture- perfect body makes us want to grab a brownie and gobble it in the anonymity of the mystery/romance/science fiction department. Instead, pick up a copy of the June Consumer
Reports magazine, and you’ll find not only an analysis of such popular diet programs as Weight Watchers and Volumetrics, but a rating of recently published diet books. Oprah’s guy Bob Greene, who wrote “The Best Life Diet,” (Simon and Schuster, $26) came out on top of seven books that were evaluated, while “Ultra-Metabolism” (Scribner, $25), Dr. Mark Hyman’s plan, was “overly restrictive and complicated.”
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GUILLERMO’S GOODS
Long before tennis fans swooned over Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, there was Guillermo Vilas. The shaggy-haired Argentine, nicknamed the “Young Bull of Pampas,” was a sensation in the 1970s, winning the French and U.S. Open titles. Puma recalls the tennis great with its French 77 collection of clothes, shoes and accessories now in stores. Among the items are a visor, $18, shoes, $65-$100, terry dress, $60, track jackets, (on model, above) $65-$80 and a racket bag, $90. Find the items at Puma stores and puma.com.
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VIEWS FROM THE TOP
Wondering what kind of view you would get from the summit of the next fourteener you might climb? Go to 14ers.com, an online guidebook that features more than 8,000 photos of Colorado’s highest peaks. The website also offers route descriptions, maps and trail directions, plus a users’ forum. The site is run by Bill Middlebrook, who has climbed all the fourteeners as well as 300 of the state’s 13,000- foot peaks, and says he aims to get in about 200,000 feet of altitude gain a year. That’s like hiking from Manitou Springs to the top of Pikes Peak 25 times.
