A life-changing and life-saving decision at the age of 35 would have Alt dramatically change her lifestyle, food intake, and frame of mind. Her raw food diet for the past 25 years has left her feeling better than ever before.
As for her books, Carol has a Doctorate in Alternative Health Studies and was a best-selling author for her first book on raw food called Eating in the Raw, which came out in 2005 and is a perpetual best-seller. Her second book: The Raw 50 (menus) in 2007. Her third book Easy Sexy Raw was published in 2012, and her last book in 2015, A Healthy You with Carol Alt, was based on her 3-year tenure as host of the Fox News show of the same name.
She then followed up with a book series on modeling called This Year’s Model and Models Inc. Carol’s books were touted by the modeling industry as the benchmark of modeling books and a must-read for every young model and their mothers who are thinking of modeling as a career.
Carol was also a main feature in HBO’s highly successful documentary, About Face. Produced by Timothy Greenville-Sanders, it delved into the secret lives of supermodels.