Dining Lean (Mass Market Paperback)

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If you're on a perpetual diet, a quest to eat healthy, or just curious about the dietary impacts of dining out, then this handy nutritional guide was written for you. Dr. Lichten uses her expertise as a registered dietitian to tell you the dangers - and delights - that await you in fast food joints as well as restaurants.There's general information about certain types of food, as well as specific nutritional information for an amazing variety of fast food and restaurant chains. Whether you want an idea of the calories and fat grams that lurk in an average hamburger, or the specifics of how much damage a Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza will do to your waistline, you can find it here.And don't think the news is all bad. Dr. Lichten includes lightening-up tips, such as ordering fresh fruit rather than chopped nuts as a topping for your frozen yogurt. If you enjoy exotic foods, you won't be neglected. The book also includes information on what to avoid - and what to order - for healthy eating at restaurants varying from Indian to Italian. -- From Independent Publisher

Product Description
Bored with salad, grilled chicken, and dry toast? Dining Lean doesn't have to mean deprivation. There are healthy choices in every restaurant. Dining Lean shows you how to order your favorite foods without clogging your arteries or putting on pounds! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Nutrifit Publishing; 1 edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880347903
• ISBN-13: 978-1880347904
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,677,020 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An exhaustive reference for dining lean and healthy., March 9, 1998

By	[e-mail] (USA) - See all my reviews

It's easy to control what you eat when you are in control in the kitchen. But, dining out is another challenge altogether. Dr. Joanne Lichten's Dining Lean is an exhaustive reference for maintaining your healthy habits in restaurants. Well researched, yet easy to read and friendly, it is filled with tips, nutrition facts, and specific information on the most popular restaurants. Don't leave home without it! - Mary Guay, author of Don't Diet - Live It!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent no nonsense book for dining out, December 15, 2002

By	Stephanie Manley (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Dining Lean: How to Eat Healthy in Your Favorite Restaurants (Paperback)

I would really have to rank this book above many others when it comes to watching the wasteline in restaurants. This book gives many different popular restaurants, and general ethnic guidlines that so many different books lack. She gives calories, fat, and carbohydrate information. All is clear an concise. In addition to some pretty helpful charts, she shows you what servings really look like in terms of size, and calorie counts of many of our all time favorites. Rather than trying to give you a bad one size fits all approach, she gives wonderful guidelines that you can take with you most any place you can go.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed but still worth the money., April 10, 2003

By	C. Mishler "crxcheri" (Issaquah, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Dining Lean: How to Eat Healthy in Your Favorite Restaurants (Paperback)

Duh, we all know that if we order our salads without dressing we'll save calories and fat grams so the 'how to order in restaurants section' was of little to no benefit for me. The points of real value to this book, in my opinion, were the guides that help you guesstimate food count information for various food items (for example, muffins are approximate 100 calories per ounce). The book does give valuable information to help gauge serving sizes of various foods and approximate food counts.