Carol Alt, supermodel, actress, raw food expert, entrepreneur, and host of the hit Fox News health and wellness show A Healthy You, offers her unique blend of alternative and practical diet, fitness, beauty, and aging advice to help you live healthier everyday.
In her first fully illustrated lifestyle book, bestselling author, supermodel, and TV host Carol Alt shows readers how to approach all aspects of life with energy and vitality—from diet and fitness, to beauty and fashion. Drawing on her years of experience as a raw food advocate and ambassador for a mindful, health-focused lifestyle, Carol guides readers of all ages with simple, effective advice on how to live a more balanced, healthy, beautiful life. She demystifies and takes readers step-by-step through the recipes, regimens, healthy habits, diets, and products—from raw eating to do-it-yourself, chemical-free beauty products—that really work.
Carol curates the very best advice from her favorite doctors, fitness gurus, dietitians, and the hundreds of experts she’s interviewed on her television show. Never afraid to try the trends that may seem unusual, difficult, or fringe, Carol is devoted to making alternative ideas accessible to everyone. In A Healthy You, she brings readers the best of what she’s found. Filled with practical advice, expert guidance on living a cleaner, greener lifestyle, engaging stories from Carol’s own life, and 150 photos throughout, A Healthy You will inspire everyone to take charge of their health every day, in new and exciting ways.
CAROL ALT BIO Carol Alt is a pioneer and chameleon; constantly on the lookout for new challenges. Since her days as the world's most renowned Supermodel, Alt has gone on to be a multi-award winning actor, best-selling author on Raw Food and Nutrition and the host of A Healthy You & Carol Alt on FOX News Channel.
Hailed as the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Playboy Magazine and the "Next Million Dollar Face" by Life Magazine in 1980, Alt has not disappointed, going on to grace the covers of 700 magazines and counting.
In 1990, Alt went on without them to posters, workout videos in partnership with Cosmopolitan magazine, and numerous calendars; since then her posters and calendars have become the benchmark for any and every rising, young supermodel.
Having twice graced the cover of the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and in February 2014 Alt was featured in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit franchise.
Forever touted as "The model that started the Supermodel trend" by John Casablanca, the owner of Elite Models made Carol the first ever "Super Elite Model in the Super Elite Division."
Carol is an expert on Raw Food Nutrition and is the best-selling author of Eating in the Raw, The Raw 50 and Easy Sexy Raw. She also wrote a book series on modeling called This Year's Model and Models Incorporated.
Her highly acclaimed series "Amazon", written by Peter Benchley (JAWS), debuted as Variety's "Number One New Dramatic Syndicated Series", much to the delight of CBS and Alliance Atlantis, and paved the way for today's hit "Lost".
Carol has also had great success for her role in "Howard Stern's Private Parts". She is the recipient of Three European Telegattos (Emmy awards), one European "Oscar" Moda, The Mont Blanc Award, The Best Award, The Golden Ticket Box-Office Award (for the most box office sales for a film in one year), The Certificate del Arte from The European Film Commission and The Umbra Award. Prince Albert still holds a slight grudge that Carol did not come to the Monaco Film Festival to pick up her award for the portrayal of the life story of Rosanna Benzi, a woman with genetic polio living in an iron lung, in the film "Vice for Life."
She also received the CFDA's Model of the Year award and The Woman of the Year Award for her charitable endeavors.
Her independent American films include "Hitters", which won the Westchester Film Festival, "The Look" which was the talk of The Tribeca Film Festival and "Signs of the Cross" which won The Catskills Film Festival. Her sci-fi hit, "Snakehead Terror", based on a true story, is still scaring people on the Sci-Fi Channel where it became not only a hit, but now a cult film. Not to mention the Cult Fashion Film "Portfolio" produced by Universal Films! It's every wanna-be Fashionista's Bible!
Some of her other films include: "Fatal Trust" for Lifetime, "Totally Awesome" for VH1,"Homo Erectus", an Adam Rifkin comedy starring Ali Larder, Tom Arnold and David Carradine, a new Sci-Fi Channel film called, "Swarmed" and "The Town that Banned Christmas", an independent film which joined the roster of Lions Gate Films for 2006.
She continued acting here and abroad with three new Italian films in 2007 and 2009.
She also went to the 8th round in the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars in 2009!
Carol was Donald Trump's pick for his first ever Celebrity Apprentice. The show and Carol did so well, that a new genre was born! Fans were so outraged that Carol was shut out from the finals by The Donald, that they would shout across restaurants their outrage! Carol helped Piers Morgan win. Piers said, "Without Carol's support and help, I would not have won!"
Always thinking of others, Carol spends her spare time (as if there is much) raising money for her late brother Tony Alt's Memorial Foundation. TAMFI.org gives 100% of its proceeds to worthy children's charities. The have just been accepted as a 9/11 Charity by the Cantor Fitzgerald BGC's Charity Day which Carol has worked for the past 4 years.