The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories

Barbara Rolls, PhD

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Cooking - 336 pages

Ranked as one of the best diet plans by US News & World Report: A plan to lose weight that puts the focus on feeling sated and satisfied with fewer calories; author Barbara Rolls has earned the author the Obesity Society Presidential Medal of Distinction for her work in research and outreach. 

From nutrition expert and author of the hugely popular The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan, comes an illustrated eating plan based on her breakthrough approach to weight loss

Almost four years after it first appeared, Dr. Rolls’ landmark Volumetrics is still selling, rapidly approaching 150,000 copies in combined editions. Now, Dr. Rolls offers a valuable collection of 125 Volumetrics recipes, along with a menu planner that will enable her readers to quit “dieting” for good, and lose excess pounds without deprivation or yo-yo weight loss/gain.

Her recipes follow the sensible, balanced, effective model of Volumetrics, putting her revolutionary concept into real and tangible instructions for every meal. With this important new recipe collection, lavishly illustrated with 40 color photographs, readers can enjoy home cooked meals that will help them shed pounds without sacrificing the pleasures of cooking and dining with friends and family.

Contents

• Management Plan: 31
• Breakfast: 59
• Dipping Sauce: 82
• Salads and Salad: 127
• Vegetables and Vegetarian: 155
• Ratatouille: 162
• New Potatoes with Peas: 168
• Chickpea Curry: 174
• StirFried Beef with Snow Peas: 181
• Pork Chops with OrangeSoy: 188
• Fish and Shellfish: 191
• Poultry: 203
• Beans Rice and Grains: 213
• Paella Sencillo: 220
• Charlies Pasta Primavera: 228
• VeggieStuffed Macaroni: 234
• Chicken Fajita Pizza: 240
• Your Personal: 261
• Resources: 293
• Index: 301
• Conversion Chart: 317

About the author

Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., is professor of nutritional sciences and the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, where she heads the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior. A veteran nutrition researcher and past president of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and the Obesity Society, Dr. Rolls has been honored throughout her career with numerous awards, including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary membership in the American Dietetic Association. In 2010 she received the Obesity Society's highest honor, the George A. Bray Founders Award, and was elected to the American Society for Nutrition's Fellows Class of 2011. She is the author of more than 250 research articles and six books, including The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan and The Volumetrics Eating Plan. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Mindy Hermann, R.D., is a writer who specializes in collaborative projects on cooking, food, and nutrition with researchers, health professionals, and chefs. The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet is her tenth book. She lives in Mount Kisco, New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories; Volumetrics series
• Author: Barbara Rolls, PhD
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061758507, 9780061758508
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Health & Healing / General; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss