About the book: year / For 3 years now, the West has been experiencing a boom in craze for a new diet. This time, Arthur Agatston's diet with the beautiful name South Beach Diet is at the peak of popularity. Agatston approached the development of his own nutrition program with full professional responsibility, taking into account the needs of his patients and the numerous factors that can influence their health. Moreover, as befits a true minister of medicine, Arthur Agatston tested the diet on himself. The result was very impressive - in the first week, Agatston lost 8 pounds (about 4 kg), and most importantly, without any difficulty or painful hunger. Agatston’s first goal, in his own words, was “to help patients improve their health.” But when word spread across Miami, where Arthur worked, that patients at his cardiology clinic were rapidly losing weight, a local television station began a widespread advertising campaign for South Beach as a miracle program for quick and painless weight loss. And soon all of South Florida was on the new South Beach diet..