Serve to win: the 14-day gluten-free plan for physical and mental excellence

✍ Scribed by Djokovic, Novak

• Book ID: 100794269
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; Zink Ink
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 92 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0345548981

✦ Synopsis

In 2011, Novak Djokovic had what sportswriters called the greatest single season ever by a professional tennis player--winning ten titles, three Grand Slams, and forty-three consecutive matches. Remarkably, less than two years earlier, this champion could barely complete a tournament. So how did a player once plagued by asthma and aches and injuries on the court suddenly become the #1 ranked tennis player in the world? The answer is astonishing: He changed what he ate.

In Serve to Win, Djokovic recounts how he survived the bombing of Belgrade, Serbia, rising from a war-torn childhood to the top tier of his sport. Then he reveals the diet that reshaped his health and pushed him to the pinnacle. While he loved and craved bread and pasta, and especially the pizza at his family's restaurant, his body simply couldn't process the wheat in his favorite meals. Eliminating gluten--the protein found in wheat--made him feel instantly better, lighter, clearer, and quicker....

✦ Subjects

Gluten-free diet -- Recipes