Nonfiction Chart gets 'Healthy' Boost from Dr. Andrew Weil

It's been three years since Dr. Andrew Weil helped make our kitchens healthy with The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit. Now, Weil's back to make our golden years healthy too. His new book, Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being , sold 28,000 units in its debut this week to make it to No. 2 on the Nonfiction Chart. To promote his book, Dr. Weil has made many major media appearances?including the cover of Time magazine and the morning show trifecta of the Today show, Good Morning America and The Early Show?as well as appearances in town hall meetings across the country. "Dr. Weil has essentially been preaching the same message for three decades," says Paul Bogaards, executive director of publicity at Knopf, pointing to Weil's dedication to aging well by focusing on diet, rest, exercise and reducing stress. "Much of what he writes about are subtle changes in lifestyle," Bogaards said, "but changes that can have a lasting impact."

Nonfiction Top Five, for the week ending Oct. 23, 2005:Story continues below ?

1. A MILLION LITTLE PIECES, James Frey (Anchor, Paperback, 0307276902)
2. HEALTHY AGING, Andrew Weil, M.D. (Knopf, Hardcover, 0375407553)
3. NATURAL CURES "THEY" DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, Kevin Trudeau (Alliance Publishing, Hardcover, 0975599518)
4. THE WORLD IS FLAT, Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Hardcover, 0374292884)
5. YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL, Michael F. Roizen, M.D.; Mehmet Oz, M.D. (HarperResource, Hardcover, 0060765313)