BOOK Author promotes ways to keep us healthy but reveals no secrets of thin and wealthy

Book contains some appealing, healthy recipes and validobservations.
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Who can remember all the diets we've watched go by since the '80s.
Start with the grapefruit, Beverly Hills, Atkins, Perricone, South Beach plans and many more.
Apparently it takes a gimmick to pitch weight loss or a healthy lifestyle. So here now is another hang tag. Say hello to the "Park Avenue diet," as explained in the book "How the Rich Get Thin" (St. Martin's Press, $22.95)
It is written by Jana Klauer, a New York diet doctor with a financially successful clientele. It is packed with advice that includes daily exercise and menus ranking high in protein, omega-3 fats, fruits and calcium. Substitute mineral water for wine and order vegetable crudites instead of bread, she says. She writes about a particular client with a fondness for lamb chops. She suggested he eat one instead of three and give the two others to his driver.
But based on the title, one would expect to read how the swells really eat and exercise. Do they nibble at charity balls? Do they fast to fit into designer gowns? Do they lunch only on lettuce? Do they take long spa breaks? Or chew on their Hermes ties?
Instead, the doctor uses the theme to promote her specific diet-lifestyle philosophy. She offers some appealing, healthy recipes and valid observations about meals. It's worth a look.
Just don't expect to find out how the New York East Side socialites keep pole-thin legs and waistlines tiny enough for Chanel size 2s.