Part III: Slim Down, Shape Up with the Dole Diet and Fitness Plan dramatically illustrates the health risks of excess weight, while offering up simple, practical tips for getting healthy. This section explodes some diet myths that keep people from reaping weight loss benefits, while suggesting a basic exercise routine aimed at improving both strength and aerobic fitness. Finally, the Dole Diet encompasses two weeks of meal plans and recipes that add up to 100% of everything you need to be healthy, naturally allowing people to lose weight by filling up on fruit and vegetables and avoiding deficiency-fueled cravings.

The Dole Nutrition Handbook constitutes a creative yet scientific follow-up to Mr. Murdock's first book, The Encyclopedia of Foods, created in partnership with the Mayo Clinic and UCLA. This new publication is certainly the most definitive guide created by the Dole Nutrition Institute, which has authored over a thousand articles through the award-winning Dole Nutrition News, enjoyed by 2.5 million subscribers, as well as various brochures, cookbooks, videos and children's materials such as the new Dole Superkids Activity Book.