Synopses & Reviews
A place of grand estates and sparkling, refreshing beaches, the Hamptons are where the rich and famous go to escape the hot summer days of New York City. Hollywood superstars . . . Grammy Awardwinning singers . . . international supermodels . . . Wall Street titansall are drawn to the Hamptons to sun their amazing bodies, swim, and enjoy the delicious fare at the areas many exclusive restaurants specializing in sumptuous dishes for health-conscious celebrities.
Want to eat well, stay fit, and look fantastic the way the rich and famous do in the Hamptons? Now you can with The Hamptons Dietthe breakthrough new low-carb diet by Dr. Fred Pescatore, an internationally acclaimed nutritional healing expert and the longtime medical director of the world-renowned Atkins Center. Dr. Pescatore is one of the leading experts in the low-carb diet movement and has worked with many rich and famous patients both in the Hamptons and elsewhere, helping them lose weight and look and feel their best.
Hamptons style. Atkins results. This amazing new book reinvents the low-carb diet, offering you a deliciously satisfying, medically sound weight-loss program for safely shedding unwanted pounds. Going beyond the Mediterranean-style diet Dr. Pescatore pioneered in his bestselling Thin For Good, The Hamptons Diet updates the foods you can eat to maximize both the weight-loss benefits and the enjoyment. The Hamptons Diet teaches you how to choose and enjoy healthful fats and carbohydrates instead of consuming or restricting them indiscriminately. It introduces a powerful secret ingredientmacadamia nut oil, one of the most monounsaturated oils on the planet. Citing the latest scientific research, Dr. Pescatore shows you why a monounsaturated-rich diet is the key to losing weight and keeping it off.
Since theres no better incentive for following a weight-loss diet than delicious food, The Hamptons Diet showcases simple, easy-to-follow 30-day meal plans as well as almost 200 mouthwatering recipes by the New York celebrity chefs Tom Valenti of Ouest and Cesca and Douglas Rodriguez of Ola. Youll find breakfast delights such as Atlantic Beach Avocado Boats, Goat Cheese and Arugula Omelet, and Soy Macadamia Pancakes; scrumptious lunch fare, including East Asian Chicken Soup, Sag Taco Salad, and Bacon Lettuce Turkey Twist; and to-die-for dinner dishes like Mamas Stuffed Green Peppers, Kobe Short Ribs, and Playhouse Snapper Stew.
You dont have to be rich and famous to enjoy the good life. A unique low-carb breakthrough weight-loss system, The Hamptons Diet is a surefire prescription for looking good, feeling great, and staying healthy whether youre at the beach, at the office, or at home with your family.
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The Hamptons Diet has the perfect credentials for fashion-obsessed New Yorkers seeking to purge themselves of unwanted calories. The Independent
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"In my view, Dr. Fred Pescatore is the heir to the Atkins throne. His diet is delicious, sound, and represents one of the best of the low-carb options." Louise Gittleman, author of The Fat Flush Plan
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"Dr. Pescatores The Hamptons Diet takes The Diet Revolution to the next level a healthy, sensible low-carb diet and lifestyle plan that will make us all thinner, happier, and healthier. Dr. Atkins would be proud of Dr. Pescatore." Fran Gare, N.D., co-author of Dr. Atkins New Diet Cookbook
Synopsis
The Atkins diet meets the South Beach diet...dieting secrets of the rich, famous and thin!
Atkins results. Hamptons style.
As the former medical director of the Atkins Center and a frequent guest on radio and television, Dr. Fred Pescatore is one of today's most highly visible low-carb diet doctors. And his visibility is sure to increase now that he is taking over the customer base of the Atkins Center, following Dr. Atkins's untimely death in early 2003. Building on the low-carb, Mediterranean-style diet plan he pioneered in Thin For Good, Dr. Pescatore now presents The Hamptons Diet, a program that introduces a secret ingredient macadamia nut oil, the most monounsaturated oil on the planet among other delicious components. Complete with 30-day meal plans featuring more than 100 mouthwatering recipes from celebrity chefs and just in time for the summer beach season, The Hamptons Diet is 2004's exciting new low-carb diet book a deliciously satisfying, medically soun weight-loss program that can help anyone slim down and feel like the rich, famous, and thin.
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Praise for The Hamptons Diet
"In my view, Dr. Fred Pescatore is the heir to the Atkins throne. His diet is delicious, sound, and represents one of the best of the low-carb options."
Ann Louise Gittleman
author of the New York Times bestselling The Fat Flush Plan
"Dr. Pescatores The Hamptons Diet takes The Diet Revolution to the next levela healthy, sensible low-carb diet and lifestyle plan that will make us all thinner, happier, and healthier. Dr. Atkins would be proud of Dr. Pescatore."
Fran Gare, N.D., Southampton
coauthor of Dr. Atkins New Diet Cookbook
"Dr. Fred Pescatore takes the Atkins Diet to a delicious updated level in this revolutionary new weight-loss program that shows you how to get thineasily and simplyby eating amazing food. The Hamptons Diet is a real breakthrough and I feel very comfortable recommending it to my patients."
Dana Cohen, M.D.
Diet secrets of the rich and famous revealed!
The world-renowned diet doctor offers you his prescription for looking good, feeling great, staying healthy, and living longer!
In this breakthrough new diet book, Dr. Fred Pescatore, the longtime medical director of the Atkins Center, takes the next bold step to offer you an all-new weight-loss system inspired by the healthy lifestyles and demanding palates of the rich and famous of the Hamptonsone of the most exclusive resort communities in the world.
A complete, satisfying, easy-to-follow diet program that combines Hamptons style with Atkins results, The Hamptons Diet provides you with everything you need to lose weight safely and quickly, including thirty days of meal plans and almost 200 sumptuous recipes from the celebrity chefs Tom Valenti and Douglas Rodriguez.
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Diet secrets of the rich, famous, and thin!
Where health meets style, where the world-renowned Hamptons meet the Mediterranean--that's the Hamptons Diet, a weight-loss plan that has been a breakthrough success for some of the world's leading celebrities. In The Hamptons Diet, Dr. Fred Pescatore, one of the world's most highly visible diet experts, offers you a prescription for losing weight quickly while looking great and staying healthy that's inspired by the healthy lifestyles and demanding palates of the rich and famous. With the Hamptons Diet, you eat healthy carbohydrates and ample protein, achieving a naturally low-glycemic balance. In this satisfying, easy-to-follow program, you get everything you need to lose weight quickly and safely, including thirty days of meal plans, a secret ingredient--macadamia nut oil, which boosts your metabolism and is the healthiest cooking oil on the planet--and almost 200 sumptuous recipes.
"Dr. Pescatore's diet is delicious and sound and represents one of the best options."
--Ann Louise Gittleman, author of the New York Times bestselling The Fat Flush Plan and The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet
"Dr. Pescatore's The Hamptons Diet takes the Diet Revolution to the next level--a healthy, sensible diet and lifestyle plan that will make us all thinner, happier, and healthier."
--Fran Gare, N.D., Southampton, author of Anti-Aging Diet Evolution
About the Author
Fred Pescatore, M.D., is head of Partners in Integrative Medicine in New York. Before establishing his own practice, Dr. Pescatore worked alongside the legendary Dr. Robert C. Atkins as Medical Director of the Atkins Center. He has appeared on The View, Deborah Norville, and Weekend Today and has been featured in the New York Times and other national media. Dr. Pescatores other books include The Allergy and Asthma Cure, Thin For Good, and Feed Your Kids Well. He lives and works in New York, Dallas, and East Hampton.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
1. What Is the Hamptons Diet?
2. The Hamptons Diet and Your Health.
3. Updating the Mediterranean Diet.
4. The Hamptons Diet Pyramids.
5. Choosing the Right Oils and Fats.
6. The Hamptons Diet Menu Plans.
7. The Hamptons Diet Supplement Plan.
8. The Hamptons Diet Recipes.
Appendix A Resources.
Appendix B The Production of Oil.
Recipe Index.
General Index.