The French Twist: Twelve Secrets of Decadent Dining and Natural Weight Management - Paperback

by Carol Cottrill (Author)

With wit and wisdom, The French Twist: Twelve Secrets of Decadent Dining and Natural Weight Management explores the French attitudes of reverence and respect for food and dining. Based on a desire to take the American obsession with weight and fitness in a new direction, it exposes the shortcomings of quick-fix fad diets, encourages readers to examine their unique connections to food, and asks them to abandon their fears about eating and to reject such common myths as the idea that to lose weight we need to eat less and exercise more. Among the secrets the book reveals are the importance of eating authentic and high-quality food, and the role of pleasure and balance in proper nutrition and successful weight management. Throughout, the French approach is validated by up-to-date science on metabolism as it relates to the psychology of eating.

Author Biography

Carol Cottrill, CNC, worked in the film business for nearly twenty years before earning a degree in nutrition, motivated by a two-year stint with an overzealous fitness trainer. Through her studies in holistic nutrition she began to unravel America's unhealthy preoccupation with food and exercise. It's become Carol's mission to expose the futility of serial dieting and the damage and distress it causes for millions of women. In pursuing her specialty, healthy weight management, Carol targets the disordered eating that results from the American obsession with being thin.

Carol divides her time between her central Florida and Manhattan offices, counseling clients who include celebrities from the worlds of fashion, music, medicine and business. A regular speaker on subjects ranging from the dangers of fad dieting to osteoporosis, she enjoys expressing her views in magazine pieces and feature columns about lifestyle, beauty and health, and as an industry expert for Dr. Mehmet Oz's interactive social QA platform, Sharecare.com.