Synopses & Reviews
Americans spend more than $500 billion a year eating out, and behind each burger, turkey sandwich, and ice cream sundae is a simple decision that could help you control your weight--and your life. The problem is, restaurant chains and food producers aren't interested in helping you make healthy choices. In fact, they invest $30 billion a year on advertising, much of it aimed at confusing eaters and disguising the fat and calorie counts of their products. Thankfully
Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide - by David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding - is here to help. Its the first book in the
Eat This, Not That! series to focus solely on burger shacks, pizza parlors, pasta joints, breakfast diners, Mexican cantinas, Chinese eateries, drive-thrus, and coffee shops. With in-depth coverage of 80 of the biggest restaurant chains in the country, it arms you with the information you need to take control of your diet and sidestep the egregious calorie-landmines that are secretly sabotaging your chances of losing weight. And why would restaurants do such a thing? Because people keep buying. The top brass at any restaurant knows that the more food that goes onto the plate, the more drastically the customers will underestimate the caloric heft. Thats why the average cheeseburger has 136 more calories today than it did in the 1970s and why two-thirds of the country is now overweight or obese.
Additional features in Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide include:
· Restaurant Report Card: Americas Best and Worst Restaurants
· The Menu Decoder: rules for navigating any menu in the country
· The Buffet Survival Guide
· The New Rules of Eating Out
· 50 Great Restaurant Meals under 500 Calories
· Money- (and Calorie-) Saving Guide to Making Your Favorite Restaurant Meals—at Home!
Loaded with tips on everything from navigating neighborhood restaurant menus to making smart choices in the drive-thru to cutting cash and calories at the countrys largest chain restaurants, Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide is the indispensable encyclopedia to the world of eating out.
Review
Praise for Eat This, Not That!:“I love nutrition, Ive gone to nutritionists, but putting it in this kind of stuff that we recognize in our everyday lives with our families, is truly educational. This is great.”-- Bonnie Hunt, host of The Bonnie Hunt Show “Dont stop eating the things you love just be cognizant when you walk in the restaurant of how much sodium is in your dishes.” -- Dr. Travis Stork, co-host of The Doctors “For all the criticism [Eat This, Not That!] leveled against some of these restaurant chains in the past, they are listening and making improvements.” -- Matt Lauer, co-host of the Today Show “I Think Eat This, Not That! is a brilliant book.”--Rachael Ray “We eat out all the time, and this is the fastest, cheapest, smartest plan I can imagine. It really revitalized our family.”-- Dusty Robinson, Eat This, Not That! reader, who used this book with his parents and they lost a combined 70 pounds.
Synopsis
The authors of the best-selling Eat This, Not That franchise provide readers with everything they need to know about the country's most popular-- and misunderstood--restaurant foods Americans will spend more than $500 billion eating out this year, and many of those dollars will be invested in meals riddled with empty calories, dangerous fats, and excessive doses of sugar and sodium. Rather than give up the foods and the restaurants they truly love, consumers need to arm themselves with the information it takes to successfully navigate the nutritional pitfalls awaiting in the burger shack, the Italian restaurant, even the coffee shop. That's where EatThis, Not That Restaurant and Fast-Food Survival Guide comes in, providing Americans with authoritative information on thousands of the country's most popular restaurant foods and teaching them the savvy strategies it takes to cut calories and maximize nutrition without ever dieting again.
Features in Eat This, Not That Restaurant and Fast-Food Survival Guide include:
- The New Rules of Eating Out
- Restaurant Report Card: America's Best and Worst Restaurants
- Picks and pans for more than 60 chain restaurants
- 50 Great Restaurant Meals under 500 Calories
- Money- (and Calorie-) Saving Guide to Making Your Favorite Restaurant Meals--at Home
Loaded with tips on everything from navigating neighborhood restaurant menus to making smart choices in the drive-thru to cutting cash and calories at the country's largest chain restaurants, Eat This, Not That Restaurant and Fast-Food Survival Guide is the indispensable encyclopedia to the world of eating out.
Synopsis
Americans spend more than $500 billion a year eating out, and behind each burger, turkey sandwich, and ice cream sundae is a simple decision that could help you control your weight--and your life. The problem is, restaurant chains and food producers aren't interested in helping you make healthy choices. In fact, they invest $30 billion a year on advertising, much of it aimed at confusing eaters and disguising the fat and calorie counts of their products. Thankfully
Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide is here to help. Its the first book in the
Eat This, Not That! series to focus solely on burger shacks, pizza parlors, pasta joints, breakfast diners, Mexican cantinas, Chinese eateries, drive-thrus, and coffee shops. With in-depth coverage of 80 of the biggest restaurant chains in the country, it arms you with the information you need to take control of your diet and sidestep the egregious calorie-landmines that are secretly sabotaging your chances of losing weight. And why would restaurants do such a thing? Because people keep buying. The top brass at any restaurant knows that the more food that goes onto the plate, the more drastically the customers will underestimate the caloric heft. Thats why the average cheeseburger has 136 more calories today than it did in the 1970s and why two-thirds of the country is now overweight or obese.
Additional features in Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide include:
· Restaurant Report Card: Americas Best and Worst Restaurants
· The Menu Decoder: rules for navigating any menu in the country
· The Buffet Survival Guide
· The New Rules of Eating Out
· 50 Great Restaurant Meals under 500 Calories
· Money- (and Calorie-) Saving Guide to Making Your Favorite Restaurant Mealsat Home!
Loaded with tips on everything from navigating neighborhood restaurant menus to making smart choices in the drive-thru to cutting cash and calories at the countrys largest chain restaurants, Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide is the indispensable encyclopedia to the world of eating out.
About the Author
DAVID ZINCZENKO, editor-in-chief of
Mens Health magazine, is the author of the
New York Times bestsellers
The Abs Diet and
The Abs Diet for Women. He is a regular contributor to the
Today show and has appeared on
Oprah,
Good Morning America, and
Primetime Live.
MATT GOULDING is the food and nutrition editor of Mens Health. He has cooked and eaten his way around the world, touching down in Allentown, Pennsylvania.