Fred Pescatore

Fred Pescatore is a Manhattan-based author and internist who specializes in nutrition. He is best known as the author of the bestselling children's health book Feed Your Kids Well and The Hamptons Diet (2004).

Pescatore served as medical director of Dr. Robert Atkins’ Atkins Medical Center from 1994 to 1999. He opened his own medical practice, Partners in Integrative Medicine, in October 2003. Pecastore also serves as president of the International and American Associations of Clinical Nutrition. The diet is described as a mixture of the Atkins diet and the Mediterranean diet. Dietician Sue Baic has commented that "there is an unnecessary emphasis on cutting out carbohydrates and using very expensive foods which limits the application to most people".

Selected publications

Feed your kids well : how to help your child lose weight and get healthy Thin for good : the one low-carb diet that will finally work for you The allergy and asthma cure : a complete 8-step nutritional program The Hamptons diet : lose weight quickly and safely with the doctor's delicious meal plans Boost your health with bacteria AHCC : Japan's medical breakthrough in natural immunotherapy