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(NAPSA)-The Reader's Digest first official diet-ChangeOne: The Breakthrough 12-Week Eating Plan, Lose Weight Simply, Safely and Forever (Reader's Digest, $27.95) offers an easy-to-follow method of changing your eating habits, one at a time, one week at a time. The book contains delicious and healthy meal and snack suggestions, plus techniques for successfully navigating menus at restaurants, parties and other occasions. The fundamental goal of the diet is to let people eat the foods they want, but in sensible portions and without having to count calories or remember rules.

The FDA has approved groundbreaking laser refractive technology that allows eye surgeons for the first time to address visual problems that they could not even detect before. 20/20 vision, considered the standard for good eyesight, has been measured for over 100 years by letter eye charts, but these eye charts don't tell the whole story. As demonstrated by this new, FDA-approved LASIK technology-called Custom Cornea(r) there's more to good vision than meets the eye. Unlike previous systems, this new system addresses individual variations. To learn more about the technology and the LASIK procedure, visit www.ladarvision.com