The Mediterranean Prescription: Meal Plans and Recipes to Help You Stay Slim and Healthy for the Rest of Your Life

Dr. Angelo Acquista presents a weight loss program and collection of recipes based on Mediterranean cuisine, particularly Sicilian cooking. The recipes use fresh, plant-based ingredients and combine proteins, complex carbohydrates, fiber, and fat to provide natural antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. The book connects processed fast-food diets to diagnoses of obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, hypertension, depression, and heart disease. Acquista shares family recipes and demonstrates how to prepare healthy meals to reduce the risk of developing these conditions. He includes a meal plan designed to help readers lose five to ten pounds in two weeks. The book offers recipes for all meals and courses, from breakfast to dinner and appetizers to desserts, including Chickpea Salad, Minestrone Soup, Baked Zucchini with Eggplant and Tomatoes, Broiled Portobello Mushrooms, Spaghetti with Shrimp and Cognac Sauce, Pizza, Sweet and Sour Tuna, Salmon with Orange and Lemon, Chicken Cacciatore, Filet Mignon, Rib Roast, and Poached Pears in Chianti. Additional guidance covers pantry and refrigerator organization, restaurant dining choices, exercise, and nutrition for children.