The Gold Coast Cure: The 5-Week Health and Body Makeover, A Lifestyle Plan to Shed Pounds, Gain Health and Reverse 10 Diseases

Presents an ingenious, five-week program designed to help people lose weight, tone the body, improve blood pressure and cholesterol levels, heal the immune system, and reverse such ailments as obesity, coronary artery disease, type II diabetes, multiple sclerosis, asthma, allergies, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, and vascular dementia. 100,000 first printing.

Kenneth Andrew Larson, M.D., is a general surgeon with special interests in surgical nutrition, advanced laparoscopic surgery and bariatric (obesity) surgery. He trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and New Jersey's Monmouth Medical Center. In 2004, he joined a private surgical practice affiliated with the JFK Medical Center Staff in Atlantis, Florida.

Ivy Larson holds professional certifications as a fitness instructor and fitness-testing specialist through the Fitness Institute International. In addition to teaching Gold Coast Cure classes and seminars, she operates a private nutrition consultation practice.