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Balance and proportion are essential elements of the Golden Ratio, Leonardo da Vinci's mathematical formula, which baker Stephen Lanzalotta applies to Mediterranean foods. Part science, part diet plan, part cookbook, and part inspiration for healthy eating, Lanzalotta creates a fascinating program. His rich, resonant voice, beautifully accented Italian, and intriguing premise entice listeners from the first imagined scene of Leonardo's supper. Lanzalotta's passion for the food he creates in his bakery café and his commitment to delicious, nutritious meals are totally engaging. Your first stop may be the bookstore to get the full print version, but the audio's bonus-feature disc is cleverly designed and gives multimedia extras of recipes and cooking guides. R.F.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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As a master baker, painter, and woodworker, Stephen Lanzalotta has used the mathematical principles of The Golden Ratio (an integral plot element in The Da Vinci Code) for more than 30 years. His realization that this seemingly magic formula, once used by Da Vinci, held the secret to optimal health and weight loss led him to apply it to his menu at his popular bakery/caf. Thus was born The Diet Code, a revolutionary Mediterranean-style program that makes each meal as easy as 1-2-3 (1 part grain, 2 parts protein, 3 parts vegetable/fruit), to boost metabolism and spark weight loss. The plan reveals Renaissance foods that promote weight control and includes unique tips for diet success, including: * Eat bread -- but not without fat or protein * Cook pasta al dente to boost fat loss * Balance your plate by The Golden Ratio of carbs,protein, and fat. Combining menu plans and recipes, as well as Renaissance lore and Italian tips on healthy eating, this is a unique diet plan from the ages for the ages. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   34 of 44 people found the following review helpful: Applying the Golden Mean to Your Food Choices, March 26, 2006 By  Diana F. Von Behren "reneofc" (Kenner, LA USA) - See all my reviews       This review is from: The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio (Hardcover) As a proud Italian American, I am always thrilled to see another paesano benefit from any idea worthy of publication, especially when it positively endorses my own upbringing while offering a taste of the Italian American experience to a groping American audience. Concomitantly, as a trained mathematician, I enjoy the application of any numerical tidbit that seems a tad obscure to the mainstream but nevertheless forms the lifeblood of all those eligible for membership in Pi Mu Epsilon. Consequently, anything that has anything to do with Leonardo's study of human beauty, the Vitruvian Man and the Golden Ratio, phi or 1.61803 sets my obscure factoids loving heart a'thumping for joy. I suppose the drawing of Leonardo's study showing the sacred dimensions of the human body in the classic problem called ''squaring the circle',--as the circle and the square, the spiritual and the physical are equal when the circle circumference has a diameter of 1 and the square lengths have sides of 1.272 or the square root of 1.618 or the Golden Ratio--depicted on the cover of Stephen Lanzalotta's "The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio", catapulted my brain into Da Vinci Code overdrive. Here we have yet another book capitalizing on Dan Brown's brainchild of runaway historical facts, mathematical and otherwise that somehow leads down a fun fictional path linking Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail to the offspring of Christ and a holy bloodline. But a diet book? Which, by the way, starts out with a fictional retelling of what Leonardo Da Vinci ate for lunch as he wiped his brushes after a fruitful afternoon of painting one of his great masterpieces? This one, although containing some good common sense advice which is really the Mediterranean Diet reworked to Giza Pyramid proportions seems to stretch Da Vinci, his Vitruvian Man, the Golden Ratio, and the Da Vinci Code connection to almost laughable limits. Yet without the Da Vinci trappings, it actually accurately approximates a viable Italian diet---and for anyone trying to squeeze into a pair of Roberto Cavalli jeans this is de rigueur to which millions of slim and fashion conscious Italian nationals can testify. Self-proclaimed Renaissance man, Stephen Lanzalotta is a baker/artist who owns Sophia, a bakery/gallery in Portland Maine. Struggling with his business due to carbohydrate restrictions self-imposed on an Atkins crazed America, Lanzalotta, decided to implement a little higher mathematics to the meals that he prepared for his eatery---percentages that he claims he has been successfully following his entire life with no adverse weight gain. Just as Da Vinci employed the Golden Ratio to his paintings to duplicate beauty, Lanzalotta uses phi to calculate the percentage amounts of fats, proteins and carbohydrates necessary for the body to maintain good health. With some simple mathematical manipulations he dictates that 20% protein, 28% fats and a 52 Atkins-premise negating percentage of carbohydrates---20% of which are grains, 8% legumes, 12% fruit, and 12% vegetables. There is nothing new in the food choices that this Renaissance man recommends---only real food please---no soda, booze, refined sugars, trans fats, artificial sweeteners, margarine, shortening, unfermented soy and soymeat products. He prefers fermented dairy like yogurt and kefir and full-fatted cheeses---but suggests making them only 8% of your total intake. Fish is his protein of choice. There is nothing new in the portion sizes he advocates or in the simple adjustments he declares will free you from dieting forever. His suggestions formulate a compendium of various weight loss hints from the gamut of all the latest dieting gurus of the past ten years. For example, like Barry Sears of Zone fame, Lanzalotta uses the hand as a monitor of food size---protein overlays the palm while vegetables are grabbed by the fist. Like Montignac before him, Lanzalotta implements a balancing of the glycemic index to insure that insulin doesn't spike and pack on the fat and suggests nutritionally dense food choices where less provides more. Like Dr. Jana Klauer-"How the Rich Stay Thin", he pushes a calcium rich food choice and combines carbs with protein; he never recommends eating carbs solo. Like Guiliano of "French Women Don't Get Fat" fame, he loves fresh, seasonal organic food and artisanal products made by hand---slow food versus fast. The bulk of the book consists of menu plans and recipes and a three part plan for becoming progressively astute to one's natural lifelong rhythm. Bottom line: If becoming an honorary Italian makes you slyly smile like the Mona Lisa and you can get passed the Da Vinci code hype, this book may actually afford you some good common sense ideas. However, if you already own most of the new diet books like the Sonoma Diet, How the Rich Get Thin, French Women Don't Get Fat etc., this offering buys you nothing but some factoids about phi that you are probably not all that interested in anyway. A weak 4 stars. Diana F. Von Behren "reneofc"   33 of 36 people found the following review helpful: The Da Vinci Diet, May 12, 2006 By  Bennet Pomerantz "Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD" (Seabrook, Maryland) - See all my reviews    This review is from: The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio (Audio CD) Stephen Lanzalotta has re-educated many in nutrition with the principals put down in his audiobook the Diet Code (three hours, three CDs, abridgement, Time Warner audio). With the simple theories of the renaissance era (the Golden Ratio) that Lanzalotta put forward, you will find it is easier to diet and eat properly. This isn't Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig--just an educated course in eating right. His narration is to the point, there are no frills in the audio abridgement. Addition matterials that are not found in the book are some cooking techniques, Menu plans and recipes that are so simple everyone-including me-can do it Move over Rachel Ray, Da Vinci was first! Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD   23 of 27 people found the following review helpful: I love this book!, March 18, 2006 By  Allison Davis (Orange Park, FL) - See all my reviews    This review is from: The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio (Hardcover) I just got this book yesterday and I can't put it down. Mr. Lanzalotta's ideas make perfect sense---eating real food (as opposed to processed, manufactured food) in the right 'macronutrient-mix' will keep us satisfied, healthy, energetic and at our ideal body-weight. I am fascinated by the mathematical patterns found in nature. We are a part of nature, so why wouldn't those same patterns be found in us? The recipes look fabulous--Simple, real delicious meals for meat-eaters and vegetarians. I can't wait to try them! I am thinking of traveling all the way to Maine this summer (I live in Florida) just to visit Sophia, the author's bakery/cafe. Share your thoughts with other customers:  › See all 17 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews good I liked the rpesentation of this book. The format, the graphics, the cover all were excellent. the content was also good which was refreshing because sometimes these types of... Read more Published 14 hours ago by HumorReader The Book that changed my life! First let me say that Jimmy Moore does NOT know what he is talking about! He has it wrong right from the start because the author is NOT a baker from Portland, Oregon. Read more Published 8 months ago by Bookworm nutrition that tastes good. What i liked about the author and the book is he loves food and loves to eat, This not a book about what to cut out as it is a about eating lots of wonderful tasting food that... Read more Published 8 months ago by S. L. HUNN Food for Thought Well written and helpful. Gives you something to chew on both figuratively and actually. Published 13 months ago by M. Pierce Leonardo was a vegetarian Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian whose own diet may have included bread, but certasinly no meat. That this 'minor' fact was overlooked in a diet book named for the artist is... Read more Published 14 months ago by J. Emick WTF??? I saw this guy's presentation on PBS. The entire time I was thinking to myself "what the hell is this guy talking about?". Read more Published 15 months ago by David Bereza Sound diet plan This is a very good book with sound nutritional sense. Along with the Sonoma Diet, this book tops my list of best diets. Read more Published 15 months ago by Anna Karenina Has Jimmy Moore even read this book?? I have been following "The Diet Code" and the movement of Mr. Lanzalotta in the media for well over a year. Interestingly enough, the review written by Mr. Read more Published 18 months ago by Dahlia White Da Vinci Would Oppose The Low-Carb Lifestyle? Riiiiight! After signing a six-figure advance book deal (couldn't we all be that lucky!) with the new Warner Wellness imprint from Time Warner Books, an opportunistic Portland, Oregon-based... Read more Published 18 months ago by Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man Easy Enjoyable and About time! OK! OK! Da Vinci, The Code, Renaissance! Why not?! I'd rather read about things that truely support what I have studied/ lived and how I have always known how to eat than any of... Read more Published 18 months ago by Julie Bakerville Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 17 customer reviews...

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