Eating on the Run - 3rd Edition

Work, social, and family commitments often make it difficult to fit tasty and healthy food choices into your diet. In Eating on the Run, Evelyn Tribole solves your dieting dilemma using her proven expertise concerning all foods, savory and sweet.

Divided into four parts for easy reference, Eating on the Run presents the latest and best information on the following issues:

-Smart food choices for you and your family

-Eating options for managing weight

-Strategies for speedy grocery shopping—including sample shopping lists

-Healthful eating away from home, whether at work, at a restaurant, in your car, or at the airport

-Nutritional values for common fast foods

-Eating and ordering ethnic cuisine

-Dietary decisions relative to hypertension, high cholesterol, and heart disease

-Diets and supplements, with advice on today's most popular programs, including liquid meal replacements and high-protein diets such as the Atkins and Zone diets

-Easy meal preparation, including recipes and tips Evelyn Tribole is the nation's leading nutritionist for busy people who want to remain healthy and trim. A former nutritional adviser for “Good Morning America” and the American Dietetic Association, she's been a columnist for SHAPE and has written several books on nutrition. She also juggles work, family, and frequent speaking engagements—so she knows firsthand just how hectic life can get. Her experience and strategies will help you avoid flavorless, fast-fried choices and eat great while on the go.

A national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and the food and nutrition editor for Shape magazine helps readers eat nutritiously in spite of a busy lifestyle. meals that take one minute or less to fix, plus worthwhile brandname snacks, nutritional food items. Serial rights to Shape magazine.

Tribole, a dietician in private practice who frequently appears in the national media, gives tips on making healthy food choices at the grocery store, on the road, at restaurants, and at work. She gives advice on popular diets like the Atkins and Zone diets, and offers nutritional data on common snacks, candy bars, supplements, energy bars, airline food, fast food, and kids' meals. There are also tips for vegetarians and vegans, and recipes for quick and healthy meals. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Publishers Weekly

Tribole, a registered nutritionist, gears this book to the young professional who has little time to cook nutritious, healthy meals. She believes in making the most of adversity and comes up with inspired suggestions for snacking. Her theory is that a snack every two hours during the day will fulfill daily requirements for vitamins and nutrients from the four basic food groups. The snacks can be as simple as orange juice and a bagel or as interesting as curried chicken celery on pita. Tribole also discusses the pluses and minuses of fast food, advises on weight loss for people on the go, talks about disease prevention and offers hints on nutrition for athletes. (June)

Evelyn Tribole is a registered dietitian who operates a private practice, counseling athletes, executives, families, and other groups on the art of eating healthy in spite of a hectic lifestyle. An expert whom millions have turned to, Tribole was the nutritionist for “Good Morning America” and has appeared frequently in the national media. Currently she is the nutritionist for Lifetimetv.com.

Tribole conducts nutrition workshops nationwide for both national and local groups and has written many books including the first two editions of Eating on the Run, Healthy Homestyle Cooking (over 900,000 copies in print), and Healthy Homestyle Desserts.

Tribole earned a master's degree in nutrition science from California State University at Long Beach. She has received the Excellence in Private Practice award from the American Dietetic Association and is also an accomplished runner who qualified for the Olympic marathon trials in 1984.

Tribole lives in Irvine, California.