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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!
Review: This book has changed my life. I have had many health problems and have not received help from any of the doctors I visited. Jordan Rubin is truly changing lives.
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Summary: Feeding the spirit, soul and body
Review: I remember speaking to the author soon after he was healed. What an awesome testimony and journey. I'm so proud that he had the guts to give credit where credit was due -- to God!Great job! After you've gotten your nutrition down, get your spirit fed by a few other books: "A More Excellent Way" by Henry Wright and "Divine Healing" by Andrew Murray. God's Word works. And if you do get healed following it, it might be time to give credit where credit is due!
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Summary: Finally - A man with convictions
Review: It's disturbing to read some of the reviews of this book (especially from those who admit that they haven't even read the book yet). Jordan Rubin is a man on a mission and it's sad when people who don't share in his convictions try to make him out to be a bad guy. I'm glad that there's someone out there who's giving sound advice on nutrition despite the fact that he knows he will take criticism from many. I personally loved the book and will be starting my 40-day health challenge in the coming days. And to those who think this book is just about pushing his products - he has every right to push them. His products are incredible and I don't see anything wrong with someone trying to sell me their product that they know will help me. If you don't want to buy the product - don't buy it - just stop whining and accusing Rubin of trying to take advantage of people. I hope this book is a big success! It could change the lives of thousands of people in this country and get us moving in the right direction with our health.
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Summary: Inspiring story, good info, but missing a piece
Review: Dr. Rubin's story is inspiring and keeps you turning the pages early on in the book. Based on what I've read (which is a lot) and practice, most of the advice is sound. I agree that this diet would be a vast improvement for most Americans, if we're talking about population health. I think where he misses the point, as do most others writing about specific diets, is that people's individual physiological/metabolic differences suggest that no one diet is the answer for all people. Furthermore, different diets may be optimal at different points in people lives. When counseling people about diets my preference is to balance instruction about helathy food choices with assistance in helping them to determine what is best for THEIR particular body at this particular time, rather than relying on yet another outside authority (this time the Bible) to guide food choices. Even if we could rely on the historical accuracy of the Bible, the diet was given to a particular group of people at a particular point in history -- all of which is decidedly different than now.
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Summary: Solid sound nutritional and health advice
Review: Any serious student of nutrition and health will recognize the wisdom in this book. He looks at nutrition from a holistic viewpoint using the Bible as a basis and also corroborating biblical recommendations with current knowledge and science. Yes he does offer his products through this book, but he also has an extensive list of where to get good, wholesome, real food from many other sources. The appedix alone is worth the price of the book! Excellent advice and sound reasoning and science. Very well done!
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Summary: Cashing in on the Christian Market for PROFIT!
Review: I found this author's blatant attempt to copy the marketing campaigns of other successful science based diets--without himself having any credentials in science or medicine--offensive. But worse is his apparent lack of respect for the Christian Marketplace. He seems to believe that if you throw a bible reference into any product, we'll dash out and mindlessly purchase the product. I highly doubt that "The Maker" had his own line of supplements and I don't believe that Icelandic cod-liver oil was ever mentioned in the bible. That said, eating a healthy, whole foods diet is certainly a good idea, but not a new one. This ain't A Purpose Driven Life.
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Summary: What about the New Testament
Review: I have not read this book yet, but have read about it. I understand that the idea is based on the "clean" and "unclean" foods outlined in Leviticus. But what about the New Testament? When Jesus' disciples were eating with "unclean" hands, Jesus responded to those who questioned them by saying: Matthew 15:10-11 "Listen and understand. What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'" Then, in verses 16-18 "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." It seems to me this is not so much a Biblical diet as it is an Old Testament diet. I'm not arguing that it's a bad diet--I think whole foods are the way to go to support a healthy lifestyle--I just think the "hook" is flawed.
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Summary: Good for all
Review: The principles of the Maker's Diet can be proven through science and history without the Bible. It just goes to show that our Maker is the source of supreme wisdom. Churches everywhere need to embrace this message so they can be an example of good health to all and not continue to suffer with the rest in this fast paced culture that has lost sight of health and turned their focused on the almighty dollar. To all parents - quit feeding your kids garbage and give them some real food, you know like meat, dairy, grain, fruits and vegetables, not fast food and microwaveable meals.
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Summary: Finally- a diet that is actually healthy
Review: Finally!! My husband and I actuallly fit into the jeans we kept from the 70's!! Ultimate wisdom for finances, marriages, parenthood, etc has always been available in the Bible. It is refreshing to see a book based on God's nutritional blueprint make it to the mainstream. However, this is not just a plan for religious types. Having tried numerous other diets containing such ridiculous advice as using Nutrasweet or eating pork rinds, I was thrilled to read a book with sound nutrition advice. I have no doubt this book will dethrone many so-called diet/nutrition books in the coming months. Next time you're on a flight, look to your left and right and you have a good chance of seeing another Maker's Diet reader.
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Summary: Just another book to sell His products & services?
Review: My impression after reading thru this book (It's way too soon to have actually tried his specific suggestions, which do make some sense to me based on my own life experiences) is that this book was written mostly to sell his nutritional products and services. He hammers repeatedly on the benefits of the various products throughout the book, repeatedly referencing the reader to page 259, 284, etc. Back there you find his company's products described at the top of many of the categories, with links to their various websites. Half the book is his story (painful to read), and testamonials (which I did not bother to read). I wonder why so often half a diet book is filled with this stuff. His plan itself takes up very little of the book, and emphasizes his nutritional products and services. I would have appreciated it had the book had an index. Finding specifics after the initial read is tough. Wish I had waited for this book to hit the bookstores and had flipped thru it rather than ordering it in advance based on a writeup I read.
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