Diet 911: Food Cop to the Rescue with 265 New Low-Fat Recipes - Softcover

Bergman, Yolanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553574507 ISBN 13: 9780553574500

Publisher: Bantam, 1998

Synopsis

Los Angeles's favorite food guru--who has such clients as Natalie Cole, Angelica Huston, Steven Spielberg, and Robin Williams--now offers more of her great-tasting recipes that will help change the bad eating habits of a lifetime. Diet 911 is full of wonderfully good-for-you dishes that make it easy to give up the fatty, salty, or sugary junk that sabotage even the best intentions. Taken from her successful catering service, the recipes in this cookbook are created to satisfy those cravings that can defeat even the most conscientious dieter. With her trademark humor, Yolanda shares her own tips and tricks on how to survive the holidays, fine dining and fast food lunches on the run--and stay healthy. In simple, plain language she explains the pitfalls of fat-free food--too much sugar, artificial preservatives, false labeling--and helps you choose wisely. Diet 911 makes it clear why eating healthy isn't just the best choice--it's the only choice!

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Review

Yolanda Bergman, diet consultant to the stars and owner of a home-delivery gourmet health-food service in Hollywood, gives a no-nonsense, no quick-fix philosophy to weight control. It's a lifetime of exercise, she writes, and eating a nutritious, low-fat diet--but that doesn't mean denying yourself tasty food. Bergman provides 265 easy-to-prepare, gourmet recipes to make weight control that much easier. She includes foods such as Skinny Kisses (low-fat chocolate kisses) and Sicilian Chicken. In a bit of name-dropping, Bergman lists Nolina's Turkey Chili and Tandori Shrimp and Scallop Kabobs as two of television talk-show host Leeza Gibbons's favorites. The recipes are so simple, Bergman calls many of them "no-brainers."

Author of the bestselling Food Cop, Bergman wrote Diet 911 to serve as the reader's "emergency help line," not as an encyclopedic lesson in fitness and nutrition. "This help line is here to give you answers, not more lectures on things you already know about how to get thin and stay healthy." She ends with a short chapter, "The Bottom Line: What It Takes to Lose Weight Once and for All," that sketches out a six-week plan and lists "Eleven Absolutes for Everybody." Although one of the "absolutes" is "move, move, move," the book isn't meant to provide a full-fledged fitness program. Instead, Diet 911 motivates with upbeat words and those 265 gourmet recipes.

From the Publisher

"Yolanda's who we turn to when we need a great healthy meal."
--Lisa and Clint Black

"Yolanda's food is comparable to the meals served at the best American spas."
--The Los Angeles Times

"Yolanda is the diet conscience of Hollywood."
--Vogue

"When the unfit and the unhealthy get serious about cleaning up their acts, they call on Yolanda."
--Mirabella

"Yolanda's way of eating is not a diet--it's a way of life that makes you feel wonderful."
--Kimmy Robertson, star of Speed II

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553574507
• ISBN 13: 9780553574500
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416