- ISBN13: 9781579549572
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The long-awaited cookbook is here!
Great food that’s good for you–that’s the foundation of the South Beach Diet and the reason millions of people around the world have adopted it as their lifelong eating plan, shedding unwanted pounds in the process. Created by leading Miami cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D., the diet emphasizes good fats and good carbohydrates, the kind that stave off cravings for unhealthy sugary food and promote long-term weight loss. I… More >>
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If people would just eat right and hit the gym four times a week, they would lose weight.
Instead, people are bypassing normal common sense and going for these fad diets.
It makes the authors rich, and the readers fatter.
Rating: 1 / 5
While the original SBD was interesting now we have a cookbook.
Enough already!
Rating: 1 / 5
Man, these recipes look gooooooooooooood!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I do not know how a cardiologist turns out to become a cook that can write a Cookbook. As a physician cooking was not part of any medical education, I know. However, the book has many delicious recipes, each list its contents in grams and milligrams without giving a reference on how such measurements were calculated. The recipes start with phase 2, then phase 3, then go on haphazardly, alternating among the three phases that the author suggests for his “South Beach Diet”. More frustrating, is the scattered letters from others throughout the book without reasonable relationship to the sequence of issues. In addition, the book contains many advertisements to local restaurants while it is meager on photographs of many described recipes. After browsing through the chapters you get a feeling that the author is very sloppy in organizing the book materials, no proper chapter titling, no proper theme for choosing fonts, no proper sequence for listing recipes.
The author does not explain the rationale of choosing two weeks for the starch-free phase One. Although, the book claims to reverse the epidemic of obesity, it contains meals that have over 500 mg cholesterol per servings (the U.S. recommended daily allowance suggests no more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol), completely overlooks caloric counting, and condones drinking wine (one or two cups of red or white wine per day in phase Two).
The author expresses his apology for banning alcohol in phase One, then condones drinking wine in phase Two. This is a serious flaw on the part of a physician who claims to reverse the epidemic of obesity. Wine drinking will interfere with the ability to exercise actively and vigorously in a matter that promotes health rather than barely maintains minimal strength. The author seems to limit his scope of dealing with obesity to the quality of dieting alone without serious consideration to exercise planning for healthy lifestyle.
Since the author bases his approach to healthy dieting on stabilizing the blood sugar level, then why limit that to merely two weeks? If that is meant to appease readers by offering delicious and fattening recipes then the book defeats its purpose of reversing the epidemic of obesity.
Rating: 3 / 5
I LOVE THESE RECIPES, I JUST GOT IT TODAY AND I ALREADY TOLD MY HUBBY TO GO SHOPPING FOR THE INGREDIENTS. WE ARE COOKING SOME SOUTH BEACH FOOD TODAY.
WHAT A GREAT BOOK!
Rating: 5 / 5