Diet Principal (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Actress Principal (The Body Principal and The Beauty Principal offers women sensible if not original weight-loss advice. With minimum verbiage, she outlines a sustained 30-Day Diet to Lose for substantial weight loss; a seven-day Bikini Diet for quick weight loss; and a Diet for Life, a philosophy of nutritious eating habits. Helpful diet strategies, charts tracing food sources of vitamins and minerals and their functions in the body, and upbeat "Diet Principles" and aphorisms ("The most important question you can ask yourself about any food is not 'Is this fattening?' but rather 'What does this do for my body?' ") will help women attain nutritional awareness and control over their lives. Principal's simple, delicious recipes (in menus for dinners of eight, buffets for 16, etc.) are the best part of the book and range from cheese-stuffed trout, lemon-lime chicken and curried spinach rice to green-bean guacamole and trifle. Unfortunately, calorie counts are omitted. Literary Guild selection.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

YAThe Diet Principal is a good example of a healthy diet. Principal has researched three levels of nutritional eating: the ``Diet for Life,'' or maintenance regime; the ``30-Day Diet to Lose''; and its subset the 7-day ``Bikini Diet.'' She provides ten basic principles of nutrition which include ``Know what's in what you eat'' and ``Learn the difference between dieting to lose weight and dieting as a nutritious way of eating to maintain weight.'' She also examines nutrition from the usual topics (vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates) to ``Things we don't need'' (fat, cholesterol, sugar, sodium); charts listing the nutritional value or non-value are included, providing strong support for the regimen. The diets themselves include both daily menus and recipes that are purportedly quick and easy. The book concludes with a chapter on entertaining and eating out. This book offers YA's both a diet that they can use and a reference tool for health and nutrition assignments. Dorcas Hand, Episcopal High School, Bellaire
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: New English Library Ltd; 2nd edition (September 1, 1988)
• ISBN-10: 045042894X
• ISBN-13: 978-0450428944
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,411,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Diet Book, September 17, 2005

By	P. Boehme "bookworm" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Diet Principal (Hardcover)

I'll review this since their hasnt been a review and I remember that I had wanted there to be one when I bought it. Umm...this is a good diet book. There are two diets a 30 day one and a bikini one..and then a sample eating plan. there are several pics of the food and there are a lot of really great recipes...chicken tarragon, guacmole made of green beans, and others. I do reccomend it if you have her book Living Principal and want more diet info.

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy, Delicious Recipes for Life, December 1, 2008

By	C. Hagan - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Diet Principal (Hardcover)

I am delighted to see this book still available for purchase. I got mine about 25 years ago (give or take) and it was falling apart from use before I misplaced it. A guide to recipes created to give the body what we need to be healthy, it still holds strong in light of new vitamin and mineral discoveries made in the last few years. Now that I have discovered I have Type II Diabetes (too many years of self-indulgence; I should never have stopped using this book), I have dug out my beloved copy and am making Broiled, Marinated Chicken which I remember fondly (I never liked chicken before!)There is also a Baked Cod Stew that I will be revisiting as it was a big hit in my house many years ago and will hit the spot again. I highly recommend that you try the recipes in this book - they are timeless and excellent!