The Hot Latin Diet: The Fast Track To a Bombshell Body

The Hot Latin Diet is a mixed bag at best. It's full of informative tips, tasty recipes, exercise tips and a lot of other great stuff, but when reviewing a diet book I look at several factors and most important is whether or not the diet is feasible and easy to do. This is where "The Hot Latin Diet" comes up way short. I just don't think it's a diet that women will stick to, and some of the recipes are ludicrously hard to create. The diet requires too much time and forethought. There are many other diets around that may be better suited to you and your needs.

Dr. Manny Alvarez is a senior health correspondent for FOX News and he's also an ob-gyn so he clearly knows his stuff and many of his tips and recipes in his book are quite wonderful, but the diet itself falls short. The diet is based on Dr. Alvarez's so-called "seven Latin power foods" that he claims need to be incorporated into our diets. They included tomatilloes, cinnamon, avocadoes, and garlic. These are great and I know that garlic especially can have wonderful health benefits, but I don't see the logic of basing an entire diet around things that most people don't have in their diet to begin with. I agree with Dr. Alvarez that these goods are good for you but you can add them into a diet you are already doing, while also taking garlic supplements and then there is no need to do his diet.

Weight is an issue for many Americans and choosing the right diet may be very difficult so my advice would be doing some research and consulting with your primary care physician before starting a new one. Many diets seem to be based on fads and I'm not sure "The Hot Latin Diet' is much better than they are. The recipes are quite good though and his pan seared red snapper sounds terrific, but I'm reviewing a diet book, and not a recipe book. I am a fan personally of "Dr. Ian Smith's Fat Smash Diet." Dr. Smith is currently on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club and I think his diet is easier to follow and I recommend it highly. Others have loved "The South Beach Diet" and Atkins and while I do not have any personal experience with them, they both have serious pros and cons.

"The Hot Latin Diet" is worth a look to get some excellent tips on what to eat and what not to eat, and to find some terrific and tasty recipes, but as a diet book, I can't recommend it. Dr. Alvarez chides so-called "fad diets" in his book while basing his diet on spices and foods that seem like good additions to a diet and not something to base an entire diet regime on.