The Cardiologist's Wife's Chocolate Too! Diet: No Sugar, No Fat & Luscious [Paperback]

Joyce Schneider (Author), Robert G. Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 2007

Unsweetened cocoa is a blockbuster drug, THE most powerful antioxidant, and *required* in this stunning new diet designed by noted cardiologist Dr. Robert Schneider and his wife Joyce, an inventive Heart Smart cook. With 29 times more antioxidants than broccoli, unsweetened cocoa can: hyper-boost your antioxidant levels; slow the aging process; lower your blood pressure; help prevent cancer, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, and complications of diabetes...AND produce that endorphinny good feeling (relaxing artery walls, increasing a sense of optimism like a mood altering drug) that helps you stick to a diet, lose the weight which overwhelmingly causes those diseases. But how to put cocoa and Healthy New Food products together? Cook, bake, and prepare ALL food in a whole new way? This diet will show you how. Give you inventive "hybrid recipes" that are fun as well as healthy. (Luscious Pumpkin Pie with No sugar, No fat, No Cholesterol; brownies -- the same! -- with more nutrients than most meals.) You will learn new ways to prepare food that will get you thin and healthy permanently, with greater ease and delight than you ever dreamed possible. And surprise: even with this diet’s delicious meals -- shrimp scampi, chicken stroganoff, Tex Mex, no-yolks quiche & gorgeous pasta, for example -- you may start seeing the meal as the cover act and dessert as the headliner!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Robert G. Schneider, M.D. has practiced internal medicine and clinical cardiology for more than 30 years, served as Chief of Medicine in the Strategic Air Command, is a Senior Attending Physician, Department of Medicine and Section of Cardiology of Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT., a Consultant for the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and a government-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 for the general public. Joyce Schneider loves to cook and write. She has spent over twenty years perfecting Heart Smart Cooking, getting it better with each new finding in Nutrition and Cardiology, and in addition has written DARKNESS FALLS and STRYKER’S CHILDREN, both thrillers, and FLORA TRISTAN, a biography for young adults.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (October 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419673637
• ISBN-13: 978-1419673634
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,047,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful for dieting, staying healthy, and boosting the ego, August 19, 2008

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Carole R. (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cardiologist's Wife's Chocolate Too! Diet: No Sugar, No Fat & Luscious (Paperback)

This diet/cookbook is terrific. I've lost 10 pounds without cravings! That may not sound like a lot, but believe me, it is. The health/nutrition updates in the first 50 pages have helped me realize what I'd been doing wrong. Can't think of any other diet book that gave such great advice, and in such a warm, helpful way. This book's a real ego booster when I'm feeling down or stressed about my weight.

And, since I love chocolate, the book's recommended unsweetened cocoa recipes (no-sugar no-fat fudge sauce!) have helped me fight off hunger. Cocoa is also the highest in antioxidants, something else I hadn't known, so I consider it and the recent studies revealed in this book as a lifesaver. The recipes are also amazingly inventive, using new, better-for-you food products.

I've done about a zillion diets, but I've only gained weight and nearly went nuts from the cravings. No more of that with The Cardiologist's Wife's book. I can't recommend it enough.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are serious about your health, but at the same time want to eat deliciouse and healthy meals - you must have this book !!, December 3, 2007

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JessyJames - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cardiologist's Wife's Chocolate Too! Diet: No Sugar, No Fat & Luscious (Paperback)

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

13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Cardiologist's Wife's Chocolate Too! Diet: No Sugar, No Fat & Luscious, March 19, 2008

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Barb R. (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cardiologist's Wife's Chocolate Too! Diet: No Sugar, No Fat & Luscious (Paperback)

I think the book was poorly written. I think an editor would have been nice - LOTS of typos in the recipes. We tried several of the dessert recipes (cheesecake and apple crisp) and threw them away. They were awful!!! Although the ideas in the book are good, the recipes are not and too much Splenda is used. Some of the recipes could do without the Splenda and still taste good.