Contact Emily Candler at 727.324.3471
ECCandler@hotmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Let's say you're sitting with a group of friends in a Greek restaurant browsing the menu, looking for a tasty, healthy dish that's not going to puff up your waistline.
Should you order the Chicken Slovakia (kebab) and Spanakopita (spinach pie with cheese),or go for some Gyro (slicedroasted meat in pita bread) with a small portion of Saganaki (fried Greek cheese)? (Answer: "No" on the gyro and saganaki -about 1100 calories, and "yes" on the chicken kebab and spinach/ cheese pie –about 520 calories)
Or maybe you're at a Thai restaurant, and want to know how much peanut sauce you can pour on your Yam Talay (Seafood Salad) without exceeding your limit of 600 calories per meal. (Careful; 3 tablespoons of sauce are 210 calories)
Perhaps no one is more qualified to give advice on how to maintain vibrant health and a photogenic figure while dining in foreign restaurants than international swimsuit and fitness model Emily Caprice Candler.
Ms Candler is the author of a new book entitled "Magical Eating; A Worldwide Guide", which provides English translations, ratings, and calorie counts for hundreds of appetizers, entrees, and desserts commonly served in restaurants in 23 countries.
"Menus in foreign countries can be very confusing, especially when they don't list the English language names of the dishes or don't explain how the dish is cooked," says Ms. Candler, who has sampled an abundance of both basic and exotic cuisines while traveling and modeling in far-away lands.
'I couldn't find any books covering how to make healthy food selections while dining in foreign cities, so I decided to write one," says Ms Candler.
Ms Candler says that in the process of writing her book she learned that many of the foreign dishes she thought were "figure friendly" were in fact high calorie catastrophes.
"Because it involved fish, I assumed that England's famous 'Fish & Chips' would be healthy, but that dish contains over 1,500 calories," she says.
In her book, Ms Candler rates foods commonly served in the following countries:
China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, India, Turkey, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Russia, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, England, France, America, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Columbia, Peru.