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Robert G. Schneider, M.D. has practiced internal medicine and clinical cardiology for more than 30 years, has served as Chief of Medicine in the Strategic Air Command, and is a Senior Attending Physician Emeritus, Departments of Medicine and Cardiology of Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT. He is also a Consultant for the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and a federal and state designated First Responder. He has authored ground-breaking articles for the American Heart Journal and the New York State Journal of Medicine, as well as written the books WHEN TO SAY NO TO SURGERY and CANCER PREVENTION MADE EASY.
Joyce Schneider is a Heart Smart cook, who’s spent decades getting it better with each new finding in Nutrition and Cardiology. In addition she has written DARKNESS FALLS and STRYKER'S CHILDREN, both thrillers, and FLORA TRISTAN, a biography for young adults.
We used to be the chocoholic and the Cardiologist. HA! See any problem there? There used to be, well, a small one.
Poor Bob loves sweets too, & my idea of fun used to be draggin' him on raids down CVS's candy aisle. "Nooo!" he'd plead (faintly), but when we got home with our embarrassingly bulging plastic bag, he'd be the disciplined one, begging me to stop chowin' because he knew. He was a cardiologist, for Pete's sake. He'd seen the angiograms and the getting-worse coronary disease, high blood pressure & cholesterol, diabetes...okay, enuff.
But I did like to cook. (Just 2-3 times a week, I make lots & freeze.) Over the years, especially during my Weight Gain Panic, Bob coached on every new finding in Nutrition and Cardiology ("just olive & canola oil, lose the red meat, look how much sugar’s in this ketchup!"). I became an eager inventor of healthier recipes for still-yummy eats, with only occasional howls of "I WANT FUDGE!"
Until we heard about the miracle new cocoa findings. Excited, I researched, integrated cocoa big time, & became fascinated with new low carb, low fat food products coming out in response to this country's obesity epidemic. How to put all these together? Prepare food in a whole new way? I spent a year on that, developing new SUBSTITUTE THIS FOR THAT recipes for all meals and snacks. I've also made lists of new food products that are great, & those that just pretend to be. I'll teach you my NEW WAYS TO PREPARE FOOD that will get you thin & healthy permanently, with greater ease & delight than you ever dreamed possible. And that's a promise.
5-starred Reviews
Love it! Healthy and delicious!,
"I love this book! Great advice and recipes, beautiful pictures. Plus, you can have lots of chocolate while staying healthy! Music to any sweet tooth's ears, including mine. Have been trying out the recipes in this book, and I'm delighted! I've even lost weight, which is a dream come true after years of trying diet after diet, and failing at all of them.
My favorite recipes (so far) are the New Age Brownies, No Yolks Quiche, Shrimp Scampi, & the Nova Scotia omelet. Been following the Daily Meal Plans, too.
I also enjoy the fact that the authors explain everything in plain English and are very helpful in terms of what to look for when grocery shopping and what to avoid.
Most of all, the authors are warm and funny -- never patronizing. Something we can all appreciate.
I highly recommend this book!"
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"I've lost ten pounds in a month without cravings! That's because of the cocoa, which helps you go longer without feeling hungry. It's also because of this diet's "makeover" approach to all recipes. It uses much healthier sugar-free, fat-free, new products to create bigger, more filling portions that are still delicious.
Also new to me are the health and nutrition information in Parts One & Three of the book. In the past, I've failed at so many diets, not realizing that their claims to "no sugar" & low fat were deceptive. This book has a whole section on hidden sugars in your diet recipes, and I was stunned. That's why I wasn't losing weight!
If you real want to get thin, stay thin, and improve your health, this book is the best."
Ginnie Quan, Washington, D.C., on Amazon.com
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''My doctor recommened this. This book is fantastic, and a shock. Who knew that "fat free evaporated milk" has as much sugar as a candy bar!? I still see "diet" recipes that say "substitute sugar with honey, chopped dates, ripened bananas" -- "ripened" just means the starch breaking down into sugar, and "natural sugar" is still sugar! The authors also help us to understand what's bogus, or just plain wrong even among well-intentioned "diet" recipes. When I got through the book's first chapter I thought WOW that's why no diet has worked for me, or was so hard, or I lost the weight & then gained it back. I'm also thrilled at the thought of fudge sauce on sliced fruit & walnuts every night. I feel so good!
THIS is a diet!? But it works, it's funny and has the most up to date info. Also, since it's both low carb AND low fat, it will be easy to make into a life program."
Terry Gionofrio, Queens, N.Y.
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If you are serious about your health, but at the same time want to eat delicious and healthy meals - you must have this book !!,
"I'm very impressed with this book and let me say i'm not that easy to impress - the food recipes are so delicious and healthy but at the same time easy and quick to make - that i was blown away !!!
there is also so much health oriented information in this book -
i couldn't believe it when i found out that pure cocoa is so good for your health with all of the antioxidant's and other natural compound's that it has - which drove me to spend many hr's researching and reading all of the research available on it's health benefits
many of the recipes in the book show you how to incorporate pure coca ( to satisfy your and my sweet tooth ) and many other wonderful healthy ingredients into your everyday cooking
one of the chapters includes the most recent updates in nutrition and cardiology - the book also offers many food lists, meal plans and of course the many delicious recipes that it has."
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Best diet book ever!
So many other diets I've failed at. Already my wife and I are on our third day, she can't make the recipes fast enough. They're so original and delicious. I know this is a diet we can stick with. Our doctor's impressed too. 4,000 antioxidants in each tablespoon of cocoa! So it's a super healthy diet and we have no doubt this is the one that will help us.
We're thrilled. And feeling good!
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"We're losing, and easily! My wife can't believe we had the cure to our weight problem on the shelf all along and didn't even know it. Thanks too for explaining all the not-good diet advice that was confusing us."
T. Ryan, Minneapolis
The Cardiologist’s Wife’s Chocolate too! Diet:
No Sugar, Low Fat *&* Low Carb
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