Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous: A Nutritionist's Guide to Living Well While Living It Up

by Esther Blum

From Esther Blum, an expert nutritionist at Dr. Perricone's flagship Manhattan store, comes the breakthrough news that, yes, you can eat and drink what you love and still look and feel gorgeous. Esther reveals the secrets to beautiful skin, a fantastic figure, and peace of mindall while living the good life. It's about knowing how to make the right choices: Which cocktails cause the least damageis a Merlot better than a Margarita? What natural supplements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811855406
• ISBN13: 9780811855402
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book!!

I highly recommend for any woman of any age who enjoys living her life and wants to age gracefully. It makes a great gift for all of wonderful women in your life!

Sex in the City style to diet and healthy living

Great read! Lots of great information about how to be healthy and WHY some foods hurt you, and how some foods help you. Ester's approach is quite well rounded; she condones just a few foods (diet sugars) but teaches moderation with a really funny tone.

sound advice with a fun twist

I love this book. I'm so sick of looking at diet books that tell me I have to cut out everything enjoyable if I want to look good. The problem with those books are you go on the diet, restrict yourself from all the food you love, lose weight (probably because you're starving yourself), go off the diet, gain the weight back. This book is different. First of all, it's not a diet book. If you want to lose 10 lbs. in 10 days, this book isn't for you. But if you want to learn how to eat healthy so you can have the body you want without going on another diet, then I suggest you check it out. There are great tips on what to eat and how to prepare it, how to drink the occasional cocktail or glass of wine without starving yourself the next day, and what supplements are all about. This book really seems like something you can follow for the rest of your life to be healthy and happy.

Excellent Review of Nutrition for Women

Esther Blum, MS RD has put together a review of the latest findings in nutrition for women in a way that helps them to use the information realistically and enjoyably. I like the fact that for Ms. Blum, pleasure is a nutrient along with all the others: the book does not take a perfectionistic stance that throws so many off making healthy changes. There is also a section devoted to nutritional solutions to health problems that women will love. The book is written in her inimitable, sassy style, and it is one I will be recommending heartily to all the women in my nutrition practice.

Ladies - we can stop taking ourselves so seriously

And Esther Blum shows you how. This fantastic guide gives you helpful and healthful advice on how to balance our diets without hurting ourselves or giving ourselves guilt every time we eat a piece of toast. It's fun, informative and an absolute delight to read. You feel as though Ms. Blum is in your living room (or sitting next to you on a stool during cocktail hour) and talking to you like a friend who knows her way around nutrition. Thank you Ms. Blum for alleviating my guilt. Now bring me a glass of Cabernet and some Flax Seed Oil!