Peter Greenberg - The Travelers Diet: Eating Right and Staying Fit on the Road

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To my mother, who was always on my case about my weightand was always right.

And to all the travelers and road warriors who know that, in the end, less is more.

No book can replace the diagnostic expertise and medical advice of a trusted physician. Please be certain to consult with your doctor before making any decisions that affect your health, particularly if you suffer from any medical condition or have any symptom that may require treatment.

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Copyright 2006 by Peter Greenberg

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Acknowledgments

When it came to researching, reporting, and writing this book, there were no slim pickings. Stephen Perrine at Best Life was instrumental in first supporting the idea and then delivering the people to make it happen: Nutritionist Heidi Skolnik got me started eating right, and trainer Annette Lang, a great teacher and an unflinching cheerleader, never quit on me, even when I sometimes lapsed into bad exercise patterns.

Laura Hubber, who is also editor of my online travel newsletter for NBC, worked tirelessly to track down information and experts, and her attention to detail and follow-through were amazing. She performed the Herculean task of assembling all the material, then making sure it wasnt just factual but that it actually made sense. Im convinced she lost weight just working on this book! Shes now off on a well-deserved sabbatical of world travel (and of course, healthy eating).

Special thanks to Bruce Tracy, my editor, who bravely hangs in there with me as deadlines approach, pass, and, welllets just say, hes quite brave. My agent, Amy Rennert, was always there to guide me through the maze. And thanks to Ginny Carroll, who was the real navigator in the home stretch, with copyediting and structure, as she has been with many of my other books. Ginny is an indispensable gem.

Thanks also to Betsy Alexander at the Today show, who continues to shine as a beacon of good (and common) sense, without whose support this book never would have happened.

Then theres my research staff, Nina Porzucky, Matt Calcara, and Sarika Chawla, who stayed up late most nights tracking down airport and airline information, verifying quotes and data from around the world, and then double-checking accuracy. That wasnt always easy, since very little exercise and menu information was readily availableeither at airports or from airlinesand wading through hotel menus without expert guidance proved useless.

Special thanks goes to Harvey Hopson, Food and Beverage Manager at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, who went beyond the call of duty to track down every available kernel of nutritional information about his vendors.

Thanks also to:

Felicia Browder, Media Relations Manager, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport

Phil Orandella and the Massport Public Affairs Department

Wendy Abrams, Assistant Commissioner, Media Relations, City of Chicago

Ted Bushelman, Director of Communications, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

DallasFort Worth Airport Public Affairs Department

Chuck Cannon, Manager of Public Affairs, Denver International Airport

Public Affairs Department, Detroit International Airport

Gallatin Field Airport Authority and Overland Express Restaurant, Bozeman, Montana

Grand Rapids Airport Public Affairs Department

Roger Smith, Public Affairs, Houston-Bush Intercontinental Airport

Judi ODonnell, Senior Properties Specialist, Kansas City International Airport

Elaine Sanchez and Debbie Millett, Public Affairs, McCarran Airport, Las Vegas

Gaby Pacheco and the LAX Public Affairs Office, Los Angeles World Airports

General Mitchell Airport Management, Milwaukee

Manchester Airport Management, New Hampshire

Miami International Airport Public Affairs Department

Patrick Hogan, Spokesman, Metropolitan Airports Commission, Minneapolis

Monterey Airport and the Golden Tee Restaurant

Margherite LaMorte, Marketplace Development, LaGuardia Airport

Cara Marino, the Marino Organization, for JFK Airport

New York Port Authority Public Affairs Department

Public Affairs Department, Orlando International Airport

Julie Rodriguez, Public Affairs, Phoenix Sky Harbor

Richmond Airport Public Affairs

Barbara Gann, Director of Public Affairs, Salt Lake City

Savannah Airport Commission

Springfield-Branson Airport Management

Mike McCarron, Director of Community Affairs, SFO

Courtney Prebech, Spokeswoman, Washington, D.C., Airport Authority

Yeager Airport Management, Charleston, West Virginia

Special thanks goes out to the many people at the following international airports, who overcame time zones, language barriers, and cultural differences to deliver me much-needed inside information.

First, thanks to the Airports Council Internationals Manager of Communications, Nancy Gautier, for helping track down many of the following very helpful people around the world who could give up-to-the-minute answers.

Marianne de Bie, Press Office, Schiphol Group, Amsterdam

Haldane Dodd, Public Affairs, Auckland International Airport

Natalie Figueroa, Generencia de Comunicaciones, Aeropuertos Argentina

Communications Department, Airports Company South Africa

Shamma Majid Lootah, Manager, Press Relations and Communications, Department of Civil Aviation, Dubai

Ciara Carroll, External Communications, Dublin Airport Chris Lam, Communications, Hong Kong Airport

Heathrow Airport Media Centre

Goksu Ozavcy, Press Relations Specialist, Istanbul

Adelina Rwelamira, Communications Department, Johannesburg Airport

Shuhainie Shamsudin, Director of Public Relations, Kuala Lumpur

Stephanie LePage, Media Relations, Montreal

Sergey Tanashchuk, Press Secretary, Eastline Group, Moscow

Erica Gingerich, International Media Relations, Munich

Mathieu Monnet, Responsable Presse, Aeroports de Paris

Olafur Ragnars, Chief of Department, Civil Aviation Administration, Reykjavik

Mafalda Bruno, Press Office, ADR, Rome

Suchin Pay, Communications, Seoul Airport

Satwinder Kaur, Public and International Relations Manager, Changi Airport, Singapore

Shannon Kliendienst, ManagerMedia and Communications, Sydney

Tomoyuki Hamada, Press Relations, Tokyos Narita Airport

Connie Turner, Communications, Toronto Airport

Vancouver Airport Authority

These gracious people from a wide range of the worlds airlines provided a complete array of domestic and international menus from a variety of routes and classes:

Robin Urbanski and the Communications Department, United Airlines

Mike Flanagan, Corporate Communications, American Airlines

Cynthia Schaeffer, Manager, Product Support, Food Services Division, Continental Airlines

Debra Williams and Anne Stephenson, Communications, Air Canada

John Lampl, Vice President, Communications, and Lisa Lam, Communications, British Airways