Synopses & Reviews
CURVE YOUR APPETITE. Dumping the fake stuff and relishing real food will make you feel better, help you drop pounds, and most importantly, take all the fear out of what you eat. Does that sound too good to be true? It isntdespite the fact that lately weve given up ripe vegetables for the canned stuff; tossed out sweet, tart orange juice for pasteurized concentrate; traded fresh fish for boil-in-a-bag dinners; and replaced real desserts with supersweet snacks that make us feel ridiculously overfed but definitely disappointed. The result? Most of us are overweight or obeseor heading that way; more and more of us suffer from diabetes, clogged arteries, and even bad knees. We eat too much of the fake stuff, yet were still hungry. And not satisfied.
Who hasnt tried to change all that? Who hasnt walked into a supermarket and thought, Im going to eat better from now on? So you load your cart with whole-grain crackers, fish fillets, and asparagus. Sure, you have a few barely satisfying meals before you think, Hey, lifes too short for this! And soon enough, youre back to square one. For real change, you need a real plan. Its in your hands.
Real Food Has Curves is a fun and ultimately rewarding seven-step journey to rediscover the basic pleasure of fresh, well-prepared natural ingredients: curvy, voluptuous, juicy, sweet, savory. And yes, scrumptious, too. In these simple stepseach with its own easy, delicious recipesyoull learn to become a better shopper, savor your meals, and eat your way to a better you. Yes, youll drop pounds. But you wont be counting calories. Instead, youll learn to celebrate the abundance all around. Its time to realize that food is not the enemy but a life-sustaining gift. Its time to get off the processed and packaged merry-go-round. Its time to be satisfied, nourished, thinner, and above all, happier. Its time for real food.
Shape your waist, rediscover real food, and find new pleasure in every meal as Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough teach you how to:• Eat to be satisfied• Recognize the fake and kick it to the curb• Learn to relish the big flavors youd forgotten• Get healthier and thinner • Save money and time in your food budget• Decode the lies of deprivation diets• Relish every minute, every bite, and all of life
REAL FOOD. REAL CHANGE. REAL EASY.
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“Weinstein and Scarbrough’s excellent and delicious advice is something you’ll want to sink your teeth into. They give you the straight scoop on what constitutes ‘real food’ and why adding it into your diet is the best insurance policy for not only achieving great health but also joy and satisfaction. Bravo!”
—David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, author of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life!
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"What do two lovers of food—one a chef, the other a writer—do when they notice their girth is growing? They explore how the food that surrounds us in our fast-paced world leads to overconsumption and little satisfaction. Go along with them as they discover how to get back in touch with the real food that wakes up our senses and helps our bodies know when we have had enough."
—Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., author of The Volumetrics Eating Plan
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“Who would have thought that
loving food more would be?a great?way to lose weight? Or that to eat less, you might need to
eat more things? With witty, well-researched prose and simple, delightful recipes, Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough show?us how to reacquaint ourselves with the?elemental pleasures of cooking for and feeding ourselves joyfully.”
—Joyce Hendley, co-author of?The EatingWell Diet
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Real Food Has Curves is a delightfully delicious insight into how desperately we need to get away from processed, 'fake' foods. The recipes are tasty, healthy, and most importantly, they're real. From the first bite of peach to the last tip on avoiding ingredients we can't even pronounce much less spell, Bruce and Mark make this book a must-have for the dot com generation." —Alison Sweeney, host of
The Biggest Loser
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About the Author
Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein are the bestselling authors of over 15 cookbooks. They are the first-ever columnists on weightwatchers.com ("Everyday Gourmet" receives 3 million hits a month) and the only video cooking talent on weightwatchers.com (first 6 episodes begin shooting 4/2/09). They are Contributing Editors to Eating Well with an every-issue column (380,000 circulation) and they also write a regular column in Today's Health and Wellness (190,000 circulation). They are contributors and columnists for Cooking Light (1.71 million circulation) and Weight Watchers magazine (1.2 million circulation), and they ghost-wrote The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook for Dr. Phil McGraw. They also sell their own vegan chocolate chip cookies at their local farmer's market.Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein are the bestselling authors of over 15 cookbooks. They are the first-ever columnists on weightwatchers.com ("Everyday Gourmet" receives 3 million hits a month) and the only video cooking talent on weightwatchers.com (first 6 episodes begin shooting 4/2/09). They are Contributing Editors to Eating Well with an every-issue column (380,000 circulation) and they also write a regular column in Today's Health and Wellness (190,000 circulation). They are contributors and columnists for Cooking Light (1.71 million circulation) and Weight Watchers magazine (1.2 million circulation), and they ghost-wrote The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook for Dr. Phil McGraw. They also sell their own vegan chocolate chip cookies at their local farmer's market.