The new book by Dr. Carla Lertola , dietician and nutritionist is out: it’s called ” Free from diets “, it is published by Mondadori, and was written by the doctor in collaboration with the chef and biologist Fiorenzo Frumento, the dietician Chiara Fenati, the pharmacist Camilla Zambelli and Alessandro Pellizzari, editor of the magazine Starbene . Thanks to Starbene we all know Dr. Lertola by reputation: she was the inventor of the normoproteic (and normocaloric) Ex-Fat diet, which has had so much success and continues to have on the pages and on the website of Starbene ( I have spoken here) .
But let’s go back to the book, and we do it starting from a situation that we all know,that of conviviality at the table. In fact, eating is not just eating: it is often a moment of sharing with others, think of parties, weekly gatherings, going out to a pizzeria. And now think of the antisocial animals we become when we are on a diet : we make quirky and bizarre choices to resist certain dishes, we avoid going out, we invent stomach ache in order not to attend Sundays with the mother-in-law, birthday parties and so on. . And, just when we lose them, we realize that these opportunities are far more numerous than one might think . Often we are faced with a crossroads: give it up so as not to get fat or cheat on the diet, then participate, overeat, and then feel bad and repent

The method of Dr. Carla Lertola, Free from diets, comes to meet us precisely in this : by offering us tricks not to give up conviviality at the table, recipes of traditional dishes and tasty magazines to be less caloric and just as tasty. From the point of view of Dr. Lertola, an perspective that she has also followed as a professional in the field of nutrition for thirty years, there is no forbidden food: even within the framework of a balanced alimentazinoe and a Mediterranean diet, we can eat anything, as long as we moderate ourselves with some stratagem. Do we want dessert? Let’s moderate ourselves with wine at the table. Are we going out for an exotic dinner? We choose some dishes and not others. What if instead we wanted to go out of the way and indulge in a few more extravagances? Here then is the doctor’s help, with various recovery regimes.
In this way we will be able to respect our weight loss goals, without that absurd philosophy of “all or nothing” that characterizes various diets and which in the long term proves to be unsuccessful, because it is exclusively based on exasperated self-control. With this book , Dr. Lertola proposes a softer approach , but certainly a winning one.