Synopses & Reviews
Belly fat is not only unsightly, it's deadly; it has been linked to a long list of adverse health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and breast cancer. Prevention's Flat Belly Diet, a revolutionary plan that's already helped more than one million people lose weight around their middles, may help target dangerous belly fat with monounsaturated fats (better known as MUFAs)—found in delicious foods like nuts and seeds, vegetable oils, olives, avocados, and dark chocolate. "The food...tastes so good, and there's so much of it!" On the Flat Belly Diet, it's important to enjoy these foods, in the right amounts, with every meal. The Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook - by Liz Vaccariello with Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD - makes that easy. All of the recipes were carefully developed to make sure every meal includes just the right amount of MUFAs and meets the plan's 400-calorie guideline, so readers can mix and match meals to suit their taste. And there's no need to count calories. All the work has already been done! "I had to get over all those years of denying myself.... I'm so excited by this diet." Packed with 200 dishes that feature these scrumptious fat-fighting MUFA-rich foods, as well as more than 50 lush photographs, this book gives readers plenty to whet their appetites: -Great-to-wake-up-to dishes like Banana Pancakes with Walnut Honey and Eggs Florentine with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto -International favorites like Thai Corn and Crab Soup and Caribbean Chicken Salad -Cozy comfort food like Spaghetti with Roasted Cauliflower and Olives and Turkey Meat Loaf with Walnuts and Sage -Quick, satisfying snacks like Tex-Mex Snack Mix, Peanut Butter Spirals, and Nutty Chicken Nuggets -Sweet treats like Super-Rich Chocolate Cake with Maple Frosting and Peach and Blueberry Tart with Pecan Crust
Synopsis
Drawing on the latest findings from weight-loss science, Prevention, Americas most trusted healthy living magazine, created the breakthrough Flat Belly Diet! The diet that everyone is talking about, this is the only eating plan that integrates monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) into every meal to help women banish those stubbornand dangerousextra pounds in the tummy region. This follow-up cookbook puts the eating plan into action, as readers learn how to cook for better health and a slimmer waist, while losing up to 15 pounds in 32 days. In the Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook readers will find: - more than 200 great-tasting new recipes for foods they'll lovelike Rigatoni with Meat Sauce, Walnut-Crusted Chicken Breasts, Mexican Stuffed Peppers, and Ginger Macadamia Nut Cheesecake - a 4-day jumpstart phase to keep them motivated with quick, noticeable resultslosing up to 7 pounds and up to 5 inches from their waist in just 96 hourswith no exercise required - a totally flexible program (with mix-and-match meal plans) that allows readers to pick and choose the foods they like and eat them when they want to Everyone knows that excess belly fat doesnt just look badits bad for you. This cookbook gives readers fatblasting power to trim their tummiesand food so good theyll want to eat this way for life.
About the Author
LIZ VACCARIELLO is the senior vice president and editor-in-chief of
Prevention, the #1 healthy lifestyle brand and the ninth-largest magazine in the nation, with more than 11 million readers. She resides in New Jersey.
CYNTHIA SASS, MPH, RD, Prevention's former nutrition director, has more than 15 years of experience helping people lose weight.