The Golden Gate Diet - How to Lose Weight and Maintain your Health

I would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their contributions to this project.
Alise Arato, a chef with expertise in recipe development and food styling, developed the meal plans for the diet. Alise is a rising star. She has been the chef at the world-famous Aqua Day Spa. Previous clients have included Weight Watcher’s®, Wellbeing magazine, and Winemarket magazine. The meals Alise developed for this book are not only so healthy, they are so good!
Ronald Goldfarb, Esq. of Goldfarb and Associates. Ron, my literary agent, has been a constant source of enthusiasm.
Jennifer Beal for a fun, hip book design. She did a beautiful job. Wendell Minor for a fascinating cover design and for his wisdom. Mark Dingman of Designer Haven and Cheryl Waters of Whet Design for website design. Rachana Choubey, of Yahoo!, and Alyn Kelley, of Macromedia, for advice on technology issues. Aimée Taub, an editor at Putnam-Penguin Group, for her advice. I would also like to thank Janet Singleton, Karen Tongish, Charles Younger, Margo Silver, and Leah Zimmerman. Also, intellectual property lawyers Robert Parsons, Esq., Carol Schneider,
Esq., Matthew Sant, Esq., and Roman Melnik, Esq., and entertainment lawyers Nancy
Wolff, Esq., and Helene Godin, Esq.
I extend my appreciation to Andrew Muser, a talent agent at the William Morris agency.
I would like to thank my parents, Judith and David Brook, for their help and encouragement.
I would like to express my appreciation to the following physicians for their insightful comments on the diet and the manuscript:
Maurizio Daliana, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
Jean Endicott, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Nathan Kase, M.D., Dean Emeritus, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, formerly Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine.
Joseph Sweeting, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Disease, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
James Vogel, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University.
Badri Rengarajan, M.D., Genentech
Volney Sheen, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Tad Wieczorek, M.D., Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Warren Widmann, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
I would also like to thank my patients for their inspiration and encouragement during all the phases of this project.