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How the Rich Get Thin: Park Avenue's Top Diet Doctor Reveals the Secrets to Losing Weight and Feeling Great | 
 enlarge | Author: Jana Klauer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 17587
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.8 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
ASIN: B000PIU2DM
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
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Product Description
You know the ones: the women walking down Park or Fifth Avenues on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Hermes handbag on the arm. Hair just so. Sleek and groomed as greyhounds. How The Rich Get Thin, from one of New York’s premier weight control doctors, reveals the secrets of how the successful and rich get and stay thin. With a quick-start two week program that the dieter later builds on to keep losing weight and eventually to maintain their shape, How The Rich Get Thin includes:
--Meal plans high in protein, omega-3 fats and complex carbohydrates
--Calcium, through food rather than supplements, in the maximum amount the body can absorb at a time
--A morning exercise program as an adjunct to eating
--The Stop Watch method to curb food cravings: any craving can be stopped within just 15 minutes
--How to eat at fabulous restaurants, for business or pleasure, and keep losing weight.
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 Contradictory, but some good info January 11, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book starts off in a no-nonsense manner, with some good nutritional info, and the author really emphasizes the importance of exercise. Some very good recipes, too. But then:
After telling you caffeine interferes with calcium absorption, allows you to have coffee or tea with breakfast (which includes calcium) instead of telling you to drink it some other time, or go for decaf, or not drink it at all, which would be much better.
Lists the USDA and Institute of Medicine guidelines for sodium (2300 and 1500 mg per day, respectively), and then includes a recipe for miso soup that PER SERVING contains 1166 mg of sodium. What!
Pushes calcium supplements, when, just by drinking nonfat milk (or adding nonfat dry milk to some recipes), and eating more calcium-rich vegetables you could easily make your daily requirement, perhaps taking a multi-vitamin to cover all the bases.
The Jump-Start diet, while thankfully not one of the many juice fasts, is odd in that it has the majority of the calories eaten at dinner. However, it does consist of real food.
The author's recipes have you adding salt to the cooking water for beans. Not only does this extend the cooking time, but you are adding salt without tasting them first. Doesn't make sense.
Has few options for those who are vegan wishing to follow this diet. Mentions flaxseed only in connection with Omega-3 rich eggs (as it being in the feed). What about grinding it up and adding it to your diet? Yes, fiber interferes with calcium absorption too, but it's a lot better for you than caffeine.
Tells you to substitute mineral water (especially fizzy) for alcohol or sodas. Try plain water. Any dentist will tell you that carbonated water, over time, can damage your teeth. If you're so insecure that you worry about what the people around you will think of what you're drinking, you have other issues.
Promotes using Splenda in recipes (which just promotes the sugar-taste connection), instead of just using less (or no) sugar and/or substituting small amounts of reconstituted dried fruits, which while having some calories, also provide other nutrients.
Bottom line: this is a decent book, but you do have to resolve the contradictions and tweak the diet to match your budget.
Much of the useful information is buried in paragraphs when it should be separately highlighted. The constant references to NYC are annoying (the "Park Avenue Mindset" could have just been referred to as "Type A" personality, for one thing), and for the most part are useless to those who live elsewhere and/or don't have the money to pay for the Fage brand yogurt, and other expensive products she recommends. All in all, about a third of the book is NYC-centric, with its references to restaurants, stores/delis, and where to walk in Central Park (useful if you're visiting, though).
Buy used.
 Great book, finally a no-nonsense well written "diet" book November 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book. So many books like this lead into pages that all say the same thing only to later lead into pages of medical jargon. This book doesn't patronize you but thoroughly breaks down the ways to create a healthier lifestyle, not "diet". There are no cheesy cheerleader chapters which I hate or pages of testimonials. The author is a doctor/nutritionist. It also point blank tells you what to expect and a no-nonsense approach to reaching your goal. Well written, simple enough but so enjoyable to read. I don't know why but this book makes me want to get healthy and I learned new things on nutrition by the end of the first chapter.
How the Rich get thin October 21, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent & very informative. More than about loosing weight this book provides huge amounts of scientific information regarding food and its effect on the human body (as far as loosing weight & health is concerned). I learned an incredible amount of things that will guide me in what I choose to eat from now on.
32 Pounds - Gone! September 1, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Found this fresh approach to weight loss intriguing. Having been diagnosed with osteoporosis and needing to lose weight, I jumped right in! Happy to report that I lost 32 pounds in 15 weeks rather painlessly. The emphasis on calcium and the facts that accompany it are fascinating, as well as the list of drugs that actually make you fat - Yikes! I'm keeping this book for future reference and encouragement.
Love this book! August 16, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not a get thin quick scheme so if that is what you are looking for... this isn't your book.
I've been doing weight watchers for 5 years now and have been on a plateau for some time (due to my own laziness). I have incorporated this book into my weight watchers routine and I am now losing weight again (about 1-2lbs a week) and, more importantly, I feel wonderful!
Oh, and her marinade for grill tuna is fantastic and easy.
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