How the Rich Get Thin or 100 Weight Loss Tips that Really Work

How the Rich Get Thin: Park Avenue's Top Diet Doctor Reveals the Secrets to Losing Weight and Feeling Great

Author: Jana Klauer

Built around a two week program that emphasizes the importance of calcium to weight loss, How The Rich Get Thin can give its followers the elegant, lean body we all envy on the Upper East Side..

Publishers Weekly

Klauer's diet plan isn't revolutionary, but her approach is noteworthy. The author, a research fellow at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital with a practice on Park Avenue, has a clientele comprising primarily successful businessmen and -women, "ladies who lunch" and celebrities-people with the drive to do whatever it takes to succeed, in the boardroom, in social circles or on the gym floor. They understand and practice Klauer's "nonnegotiables": daily exercise, the consumption of protein and calcium, the management of food cravings and the elimination of processed food. Although some readers won't be able to follow all of Klauer's advice-a personal trainer isn't within everyone's budget, nor can everyone choose the healthy Manhattan chain Better Burger over McDonald's-but there are many useful suggestions here. Try grilled shrimp over lentils with a cup of steamed broccoli for dinner, with a side of mineral water, and when traveling, beware the hotel minibar (the Park Avenue mindset creeps in with such lines as "better groups, such as... the Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons, allow special meal requests that can be preordered"). Sticking to Klauer's strict regimen isn't easy, but neither is life on Park Avenue. Agent, Richard Curtis. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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100 Weight-Loss Tips that Really Work

Author: Fred Stutman

The best diet advice all in one place

Atkins, The Zone, South Beach . . . who has the time and money to try each new diet to figure out whether they really work? Now you don't have to. Diet, nutrition, and exercise expert Fred Stutman, M.D., zeroes in on the good strategies--and exposes the bad ones--of all the hottest diets and consolidates them into one book: 100 Weight-Loss Tips That Really Work.

This handy guide delivers the facts about good and bad carbs, how fiber can help you lose weight, the best and worst proteins, the most effective exercises for burning fat, and more! The simple, straightforward tips include:

• Scoop out the inside of a bagel to reduce your carb intake.
• Don't read or watch TV while eating.
• Stock up on good carbs such as oatmeal and whole-wheat pasta.
• Choose popcorn instead of potato chips.
• Walk before meals to decrease your appetite.
• Eat protein when indulging in bad carbs.
• Put exercise on your to-do list every day.

Fred A. Stutman practices family medicine as part of the Temple University Health System. He has written ten books on diet, nutrition, and exercise, which have been featured in Shape, Prevention, Self, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, Reader's Digest, USA Today, and the New York Times.