Emmy award-winning Dr Tim Harlan is in Borders at the Bullring, Birmingham at noon and Ottakars in Coventry at 4pm on Wednesday this week to launch his new book Hand on Heart.
It is not a message about irrigating colons or having to survive on cabbage soup and wheat grass.
Dr Tims message is about balance. It is about the happy medium. It is about the simple changes you can make to reduce fat and sodium in your diet and still enjoy the foods you like. Chocolate, red meat, and cream to name a few.
Furthermore, even though he is a practising GP in the US, he wasnt always one. Before he went to study medicine, he worked for 14 years in catering, finally becoming a chef and owning his own restaurant for three years. So he does really know a thing or two about the practicalities of food preparation.
Driven on by his interest in food and how diet affects the human body, Tim Harlan developed the persona of Dr Gourmet, building a large TV and Internet following. In 2002 his contribution to diet and public health awareness won him a coveted Emmy®. (www.drgourmet.com)
Hand on Heart a perfectly ordinary cookbook contains delicious recipes, which allow people to eat tasty meals while maintaining a low fat, low sodium diet. The whole approach is refreshingly based on what you CAN eat.
:: The book is available in Borders and Ottakars bookshops nationwide, and other good book stores. Priced £14.95 and a donation toward British heart research is made for every book sold.
