The Skinny Carbs Diet is a cookbook that allows you to eat pasta and potatoes as well as use the power of resistant starch to fight fat and beat cravings. The book is written by David Feder and the editors of Prevention Magazine. This book will be released on September 14, 2010 and focuses on the benefits of resistant starch for health benefits and to help you lose weight. Some of the best foods for resistant starch include bananas, potatoes, bread and pasta.
The cookbook includes over 150 recipes that include those special resistant starch ingredients. Some of the different categories of recipes include breakfasts, lunch, soups sandwiches, side dishes, vegetarian entrees, desserts and salads. This cookbook also provides you with six weeks’ worth of menus with food items taken directly from the cookbook. This isn’t just a cookbook as it explains how the diet works, gives a thorough background to what resistant starch is and gives detailed instructions on how to prepare your foods.
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CON
None to speak of
DIET and NUTRITION
This diet program focuses on using the resistant starch that comes in certain carbohydrate rich foods to benefit your health. You can actually lose weight while consuming carbs contrary to information that has previously been given. There are over 150 recipes included in this cookbook to give lots of variety to your diet. The book also includes a six week supply of menus using recipes that are included in the book. Some of the included recipes are:
Peanut butter breakfast shake
Spinach and goat cheese salad
Grilled eggplant
Zucchini and carrots with walnuts
Coconut rice pudding
Banana ice cream
Pumpkin-ginger soup
Turkey avocado cobb salad
Roasted garlic soup with pork and broccoli
Chocolate mousse
Apple strudel
Creamy smoked salmon and dill fettuccini
EXERCISE
Although the Skinny Carbs Diet is a cookbook that outlines the diet plan, there is no specific section featuring exercise.
CONCLUSION
Get ready to throw what you’ve heard over the last few years out the window with The Skinny Carbs Diet. Through using resistant starch, you will not only enjoy eating carbs again, but be encouraged to include them with each of your meals. This cookbook is packed with recipes that will make the program easy to follow. And you won’t have to worry about going through carb withdrawal.
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(Page 1 of 1, 1 total comments)David feder, RD
Au contraire! I did put in a small section on exercise! It's on pp 30-31. Thanks for the nice review. David feder, RD
posted Nov 5th, 2010 6:40 pm