Synopses & Reviews
A youth-recovery plan that's as fast as it is effective, The High School Reunion Diet is a pure foods program designed to have you looking slimmer, healthier, and younger in just thirty days.
When people come in to see acclaimed dermatologist and internist Dr. David Colbert in the hope of looking younger, he often sends them home with a diet. Yes, there are many modern dermatology treatments that improve your skin and take years off your appearance, but the doctor knows nothing works better (or faster) than the right foods.
Whether you want to lose a few pounds or a few years, The High School Reunion Diet is for you. Dr. Colbert begins with a quick reeducation on how certain foods fuel your body. You'll learn why sugar-saturated processed foods slow you down and make you appear old, and how you can combat the effects of age with the health and beauty secrets of smart carbs, A+ fats, intelligent fiber, and star proteins.
Then it's time to start eating. Here's how the diet works: You replace over-sugared, nutritionally empty packaged foods and sweetened drinks with True Food -- brilliant-colored vegetables, whole fruits, nutritious nuts, lean meat, and a variety of other flavorful items that are easily accessible, pure, and unprocessed. You cook with great fats like olive oil, and use antioxidant-rich spices that can both beautify skin and protect health. Soon the aging effects of sugar will begin to reverse, just as the benefits of whole nutrients begin to multiply. Dull skin, hair, and eyes will brighten. In thirty days, you'll experience the entire range of benefits -- from increased energy and heightened mental acuity to weight loss -- that will have you on the road to lifelong good habits and health.
Featuring a variety of options for everyday meals, The High School Reunion Diet also includes sample recipes destined to become household staples, rang-ing from frittatas and smoothies to fresh salads and sides, delicious fish and even sirloin entrees, as well as a long list of tasty snacks. Having already earned the trust of New York and Hollywood's media, fashion, and film elite, Dr. Colbert brings to your kitchen table his extensive knowledge of attaining -- and sustaining -- health, beauty, and youth.
Review
"Dr. Colbert is like your favorite high school teacher—very funny, a little sarcastic, and a lot subversive. By translating nutritional science into a language we can finally relate to, he gets inside your head and turns your thinking around. Your body will never be the same again--and years later, you’ll probably still be thanking him for it."
--Molly Ringwald, Film, TV and Broadway Actress, Star of high school film classics Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club
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"Dr. Colbert approaches health and beauty from the inside out in a way that is easy to incorporate at first, and becomes second nature at last."
—Michelle Williams, Oscar-nominated, Award-Winning Actress
Synopsis
A whole-foods diet designed to help readers ?lose twenty years in thirty days? from the respected New York City dermatologist David Colbert.
Synopsis
This whole-foods diet designed to help readers lose 20 years in 30 days is written by the respected New York City dermatologist Colbert.
Synopsis
• Doctor to the stars: Dr. Colbert’s New York practice has a large celebrity following. Both a dermatologist and an internist, Colbert is regularly mentioned in women’s magazines across the board, from
O, The Oprah Magazine to
InStyle, and has also appeared on both local and national television, including the
Today show.
• Reeducate yourself in thirty days: Many of Dr. Colbert’s patients come in to his office seeking botox and other dermatology procedures and are given this eating plan instead. The benefits of removing packaged foods from one’s diet are immediate and direct: in as little as one week your skin will have a healthier glow. In thirty days, you will experience a broad range of benefits—including increased energy and weight loss—that will have you on the road to life-long good habits and health.
About the Author
David A. Colbert, M.D., New York Dermatology Group Founder and Head Physician, is Board Certified by the American Academy of Dermatology and board eligible in Internal Medicine. He has been established in private practice in New York City since 1997, after studying medicine at La FacultÉ LibrÉ de Medecine in Lille, France, receiving his degree from New York Medical College and completing his residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He is a member of The American Academy of Dermatology, The American College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the American College of Dermatological Surgeons. Terry Reed wrote the original screenplay for the independent film Cherry, released in 2000. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA Writing Program, she lives in New York City.