Best Healthy Cookbooks for Achieving Your 2012 Goals

Did you make a resolution to improve your diet in 2012? You're not alone: studies show that's one of the most common New Year's Resolutions. Whether you're motivated to eat right based on health (the right diet can help to prevent Alzheimer's disease, manage diabetes, and even enhance your memory) or appearance (slim is always in), there's one challenge: do you have to sacrifice your favorite foods?

Challenge met - as long as you have the right cookbooks in your corner! Discover how to enjoy good health and good food with these cookbooks. Great flavor and great health awaits:

• The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook: Great-Tasting Recipes That Keep You Lean: There's a reason why the Eat Clean Diet program is favored by so many celebrities: it's designed to help you focus on eating "real" foods, rather than those filled with artificial ingredients. Result: you look and feel better. And with this cookbook's creative concoctions, you'll eat better too! From pasta to desserts, all those "forbidden foods" are now part of your guilt-free goodies.
• Taste of Home Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: New Family Classics Collection: Lose Weight with 416 More Great Recipes: Do you crave comfort food? Give into those cravings with this classic! Pastry, pork tacos, and more, all easy to make and easy to love!
• Hungry Girl 300 Under 300: This cookbook from famed "Hungry Girl" creator Lisa Lillien proves that low-calorie doesn't have to mean low flavor. Stir up breakfast delights, lunch luxuries, and dinner treats that are all under 300 calories.
• The America's Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook: A New, Healthier Way to Cook Everything from America's Most Trusted Test Kitchen: This ring-bound cookbook rewards you for your virtue with a collection of everyone's favorite foods - prepared in a new way. Among the treasures are palate-pleasing pizza, sinless spinach lasagne, and classic carrot cake. Must try favorite: brownies!