Ann Louise Gittleman - The Fast Track Detox Diet: Boost Metabolism, Get Rid of Fattening Toxins, Jump-Start Weight Loss and Keep the Pounds Off for Good

In The Fast Track Detox Diet, the visionary nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman has skillfully transformed the age-old concept of fasting into a highly effective, rapid, but safe weight-loss program that is perfect for twenty-first-century living.

Paula Baillie-Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D., author of Toxic Overload

Ann Louise Gittleman brings one of the oldest medical traditionsfastinginto the twenty-first century. Our bodies toxin load is so high, and at last someone helps us address this issue in a way that makes sense.

Fred Pescatore, M.D., M.P.H., C.C.N., author of The Hamptons Diet

Brilliant, enlightening, and powerful are just a few words that describe Ann Louise Gittlemans Fast Track Detox Diet. This is not just a diet book but rather an extraordinary analysis of how we should eat in our toxic world. Offering groundbreaking solutions that will definitely improve the status of your health, Ann Louise Gittleman confirms my own belief that detox is a poorly understood missing link in the quest for optimum health. I cant wait to try her program!

Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C., C.N.S., author of The Sinatra Solution: Metabolic Cardiology

The Fast Track Detox Diet makes common sense and is on the cutting edge of health. I predict that within the next five years it will be common knowledge that fattening chemicals like the ones this program uncovers are a primary underlying factor sabotaging our best weight-loss efforts.

Hyla Cass, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health

I consider cleansing and detox dieting to be the missing link in Western nutrition and a key to the vitality of our civilization. Ann Louise Gittleman is to be commended for getting the detox message out to mainstream Americans. I couldnt agree more with her message and her methods.

Elson M. Haas, M.D., author of Staying Healthy with Nutrition and The New Detox Diet

As a researcher in the arena of environmental medicine, I fully endorse Ann Louise Gittlemans work and methodology in The Fast Track Detox Diet.

Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D., author of Death by Modern Medicine

Again, Ann Louise Gittleman has connected the dots in a very important and overlooked area that plays a part in our obesity epidemicthe toxicity-weight connection. Thanks to Ann Louise, everyone can now have access to a program that can enhance their detoxification systems, boost their metabolism, and help them feel fantastic.

Mark Hyman, M.D., editor in chief, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, coauthor of Ultraprevention, and author of The Detox Box

Gittlemans The Fast Track Detox Diet brings together two problems that usually are treated separatelydetoxification and weight lossand does a credible job at answering the needs of both. In short, this is a good and useful book.

Dallas Clouatre, Ph.D., author of Anti-Fat Nutrients

Ann Louise Gittleman should be congratulated for her courage. This book is a must-read.

D. Lindsey Berkson, consulting scholar with the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier universities, and author of Hormone Deception

Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman has, like me, devoted her career to bridging the gap between the halls of academia and the general public. Now she is bringing to the public the theorywhich weve been hearing and discussing at cutting-edge nutrition and medicine conferences for yearsthat chemicals in the environment can slow down the weight-loss process and overburden the liver with toxins that have profound health effects. Im going to follow her sober and sound advice to patients.

Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N., C.N.S., author of Living the Low Carb Life

Anything is doable if you break it down into small enough components. Thats just what Ann Louise has done in her Fast Track Detox Diet. If youve been put off by complicated regimes or ineffective cleansing programs, this book will hold your hand and walk you through to a new, more vital you.

Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D., editor, Womens Health Letter

Grateful acknowledgment goes to Womans World magazine, which planted the seed for this book in the first place. My most grateful thanks also to Wendy Meyerson, owner extraordinaire of Natur-Tyme in East Syracuse, New York, and to Laurel Sterling Prisco, R.D., for organizing the hundred dieters who were the original focus group for this project. Wendy, my offer still holds. I would hire you in a New York minute. Wendys late father, Stan Meyerson, was a dear friend of mine, and I know how proud he would be of his daughters business and marketing acumen.

I must also thank Rachel Kranz, my miracle muse, for her 24/7 devotion to this book, which was written in record time. Rachel, there are no words to express how much I appreciate your commitment, creativity, and warmth. You were always upbeatwhether we spoke at dawn or dusk or in the wee hours of the morning. What a pleasure!

Major kudos to my literary agent, Coleen OShea, who was also my editor for my first book in 1988. I am truly very happy that we are together again and I am definitely looking forward to many more projects together. You have been a guiding light and a voice of reason n so many ways. Its nice to be back in your capable hands, and thanks for all the tender loving care you have extended to me and my projects.

Thank you to the entire Morgan Road imprint. From the very beginning, Doubleday Broadway president and publisher Stephen Rubin, associate publisher and executive director of marketing Jackie Everly-Warren, and senior editor Phyllis Grann got on board with enthusiasm and passion. Amy Hertz, my publisher, caught the vision of this book, as have Catherine Pollock, the director of marketing, Suzanne Herz, associate publisher and executive director of publicity, Laura Pillar, senior publicist, and Marc Haeringer, associate editor. You have all collectively reignited my own excitement about health and the possibilities for transformation that this book embodies.

The recipes in this book were a labor of love. My thanks are extended to Catherine Ziegler and recipe mavens and cooks Linda Shapiro and Charli Sorenson. Linda Alexander, a devoted friend and cook, assisted me with the delicious task of taste-testing.

On the home front, I must sincerely thank my personal trainer, Rex Lettau, who fit me in and let me vent my creative frustrations during our one-on-one weight-training sessions. And of course Stuart Gittleman, my business and operations manager, who never let an interview or important e-mail slip by throughout the writing of this book. Stuart is my brother and we enjoy a rare and unique business relationship and have for nearly ten years. Has it been that long, Stu?

I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank and acknowledge the people in the natural foods industry who have been longtime supporters of my work. Much love and thanks to Debra Stark in Concord, Massachusetts; Al Forman in Coral Springs, Florida; David and Sandy Gerhardt in Marietta, Georgia; Mary Legg in Stratford, Connecticut; Barbara Hoffmann in Wichita, Kansas; Joe Hamilton in Coeur dAlene, Idaho; Marlene Beadle in Tacoma, Washington; Patti Milligan in Scottsdale, Arizona; Mary Mulry of Wild Oats; Nancy Huey of Henrys Market Place; Gene Greenfield of Whole Foods; and anyone else I may have inadvertently missed. I am also so grateful to Debbie Nelson-Judd, R.N., for her professional support and insights. I am also grateful to my online forum moderators, Charli Sorenson, Carol Ackerman, Linda Shapiro, Sue Durand, Lisa Nectoux, Cathy Young, and Elisa Bieg, for their 24/7 devotion to supporting, encouraging, and motivating Fast Trackers to embrace a whole new lifestyle.