The South Beach Diet

Rodale Press, 2003. Hard cover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in very good dust jacket. well maintained copy, all pgs. and cover are crisp and clean, nice light teal partial cloth/ boards, gilt lettering to spine, you will not be disappointed. Sewn binding. partial Cloth over boards. 310 p. Audience: General/trade. 1.09 x 9.72 x 6.38 Inches; 310 pages; When Dr. Agatston set out to develop a palatable, safe diet to ensure the long-term health of his chronically overweight heart patients, he also caused an overnight sensation among South Beach's body-conscious beachgoers. Why? With Dr. Agatston's plan, you shed pounds fast-right from the waistline and belly. His scientifically proven program offers immediate results, helping dieters shed 10, 20, 30 pounds while radically changing their blood chemistry, reversing diabetes, and lowering high cholesterol. The diet works in three stages to change your metabolism and then maintain it, with a healthy assortment of meat and fish, cheese, healthy oils and nuts, vegetables, and even small amounts of carbohydrates and sweets. And it does all this without the dangerous long-term effects of the Zone, Atkins, or other severely restrictive diets, which is why The South Beach Diet earned the support of the American Heart Association, which has warned against many other popular diets. The diet will show you how to: -Shed pounds-without breaking a sweat (no mandatory exercise)-Banish frustrating cravings in 2 weeks-Forget willpower-diet relies exclusively on the physiology of appetite and metabolism.