You will keep your ideal weight...and maintain your health and vitality. With recipes and meal plans for each phase! "The real value of the book is its sound nutritional advice." -Newsweek

As this new book reveals, you can boost your metabolism and put your body safely into fat-burning mode with a diet that's more flexible and more sustainable than traditional keto.

Introduces a program emphasizing a preventative rather than a therapeutic attitude toward cardiac health, detailing four key elements--heart-healthy eating, functional fitness, advanced blood test and heart imaging, and protective ...

"Dr. Agatston is a noted cardiologist who's made many contributions, but "The South Beach Diet may be his best. Importantly, this is not 'another diet book.' This is a book about health and well-being.

A companion to "The South Beach Diet" presents more than two hundred recipes that demonstrate how to eat healthfully without compromising taste, outlining the diet's basic philosophies and sharing personal success stories.

A renowned cardiologist discusses the importance of understanding the glycemic index values of foods and presents a weight-loss programme that includes meal plans and recipes.

A collection of quick-prepare recipes that require ten or fewer ingredients includes contributions from chefs at Miami restaurants and features tips on how to save time in the kitchen and stock a pantry.

Change the way you treat your health, your heart, and your approach to living well—now! “Dr. Agatston has been a guest on my show with this book. Unfortunately, it was too late to help me but, maybe, not you.

And a diet is useless if you can't stick with it. So Dr. Agatston developed his own. The South Beach Diet isn't complicated, and it doesn't require that you go hungry. You'll enjoy normal-size helpings of meat, poultry, and fish.

Yet while most of us recognize the devastating toll this is taking on our lives-compromising our productivity, our self-esteem, our energy, and ultimately our very longevity-we seem stuck in the sedentary, fast-food lifestyle that got us ...