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Summary: Good Medical Advice, But No Theologian
Review: I found this book to be useful from the point of view of good medical and nutritional advice, but was disappointed in the way Colbert frequently misunderstood or misused the scriptures. Bending scriptures and using them out of context is wrong, no matter what your good intentions are. I also was pretty startled to find that Colbert thinks that grace means we are now empowered to obey the law we were set free from. Did Paul misunderstand God when he wrote Romans and Galatians? There may be sound medical reasons to eat a kosher diet, but God made it abundantly clear that there are no spiritual obligations to do so.
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Summary: What Would Jesus Eat?
Review: I strongly recommend this book. This book is based on a Mediterranean Diet which is similar to the French Diet. If you visit realage.com you will see that they too encourage foods that are recommended in the What Would Jesus Eat book as well. (Foods like olive oil, whole grains etc.) This diet is becoming more popular and recognized for it's health and anti-aging benifits, more and more every year. I suggest buying this book, or borrowing it from the library, because it explains the diet best out of all the sources I've seen. This diet was eaten by Jesus AND is the same diet that more and more people are recommending today, because of the health, weight, and anti-aging benifits that they noticed from it. There are also tapes sold that are similar to the book; talking about the diet. Visit JHM.org they may still be available on that web site.
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Summary: Excellent Program For Life
Review: I was very impressed with this book and it kept my interest from ocver to cover. It's not a diet, it's a life program and I've been following it for 3 months now and have gone from a size 24 to a size 18 with very little effort. I'm never hungry and I'm eating a lot of very tasty foods. After 32 years of being overweight, I truly feel I've finally found a program that will help me lose weight for good. i highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Listen to your body!
Review: I won't buy this book, so my review is based only on a newpaper article that tells me enough to know that this diet is wrong for me. Having rigidly adhered to some very "healthy" diets and ended up endangering my health, I would caution readers that there is no one-size-fits-all diet out there. It took me years to discover that I require relatively high amounts of protein and fat, as explained in The Metabolic Typing Diet, by William Wolcott. Try copying Jesus' diet for a while and see how you feel. If the answer is fantastic, wonderful! But if not, don't make my mistake, be open to the idea that God may intend something different for you.
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Summary: Not fat, maybe, but fatuous
Review: In all my life, I have never heard of such drivel. If you have ever wondered why the rest of the world simply despairs at the decline of the USA, the very fact of this book's publication will tell you. I am in principle opposed to censorship, and not for a moment would I wish to ban it. Nor do I think that, on the whole, recycling paper is particularly efficient. But I'd rather see this nonsense shipped straight from the printer to the pulper. It would just save so much time.
I was going to say that I'd keep this book out of the hands of children, but then I mentioned it to my own children, and they thought the idea so hilariously funny - and the positive reviews even more so - that I realised I was wrong. Every good and happy child should be able to laugh loudly, freely, as often as possible. And they did. They knew adults were capable of folly, but this came as a surprise even to them.
There are just two alternatives. Either the author is sincere, and thus to be pitied, or the author is utterly cynical and thus deserves every penny gained from fools so easily parted from their money, by working out how to eat the fat of the land (Genesis 45:17-18). There's one born again every minute.
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Summary: I don't like marketing Jesus to sell a book, but
Review: it does have great advice on food choices. Some of his recommendations are a little extreme in my opinion, but they do make sense. I really don't like using Jesus as a marketing tool and I don't like the fact that he constantly mentions what Jesus would have eaten because I'm not sure if he can't accurately report that. However, the book has great recommendations on eating whole grains instead of white grains and the fact that eating fish is a great thing to do for your body. The nutrition advice is somewhat sound in my opinon, but then again I'm not a nutritionist. I guess by putting Jesus in the title of his book, he was attempting to get most Christians to buy this book. A lot of Christians that I know do neglect taking care of themselves by watching the food that they eat and maybe, just maybe something like this can help them.
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Summary: Makes Perfect Sense
Review: It makes perfect sense that the Messiah would maintain a Kosher diet that would both benefit the body and satisfy the soul. So many "devout Christians" get so bent out of shape when challenged about their diet. The whole "I'm under grace--not the law argument" is used by most Christians to abandon the blessings of a Kosher diet in favor of the "anything goes diet." Eating pork & shellfish won't cause you to go to hell--in fact--if you continue to eat them, you just might get to meet Yeshua (a.k.a. Jesus) sooner than you thought. If G-d told Israel not to eat such things, do you think there just might be some benefit there---or does G-d just tell people not to do certain things as a "Cosmic Killjoy." The Torah is a blessing to all who trust in the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob---even more so in todays world of processed junk food and refined carbohydrates. Maybe we should just use the fuel recommended by the manufacturer---ya think???
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Summary: Colbert¿s not fond of the dishes you find at church socials!
Review: Let's be honest here--there's no magic bullet out there for weight loss-if there were, there wouldn't be as many weight loss and diet books in the Amazon 1000 top sellers.What Would Jesus Eat? The Ultimate Program For Eating Well, Feeling Great And Living Longer doesn't really say anything new in terms of dietary regimens. Dr. Colbert recommends what you would expect-a lot of whole grains, fruits and vegetables along with limited consumption of meat-particularly red meat-and other fatty foods. What's interesting here is that he explains the benefits not only in the general terms of "good eating habits" as medically established but through an examination of the foods we know-and can reasonably infer-Jesus consumed. "We follow Jesus' dictates and example in all other facets of our life", says Colbert, "why not in our eating habits as well"? The book has two unique features beyond the above-cited encouragements. The first is that he presents an excellent examination of the ins-and-outs of ancient Jewish dietary law along with very clear explanations of why those laws were so sound nutritionally. The second-and this is truly unique for such a faith based text-Colbert explains the benefits of moderate alcohol intake-especially as regards red wine. This is not going to be popular in some more conservative Christian circles, but the fact he takes the time and effort-and displays the courage-to do so in a faith based text certainly adds credibility to the authority of his narrative and recommendations. The second half of the book is primarily recopies and a practical guide to adopting and implementing this diet. Nothing extraordinary but very thoughtfully constructed and presented-one of the best I've seen As Orson Wells once observed, "Gluttony is not a private sin." The real question is not whether this is a good book with good advice-it is both-it's weather the spin of the WWJ Eat concept is sufficiently motivating to actually get people to get on-and stay on-the program. Perhaps so-a lot of people find willpower in faith where they cannot find it in reason. Even if that's not the case, at least the reader will have learned quite a bit about their dietary traditions and heritage, so everybody who reads the books stands to be better off in one way or another.
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Summary: Best diet book out there
Review: Most diet books are aimed at weight loss. This is not one of them, but weight loss will result from following what is outlined in it. This is THE best diet book I have ever seen, in that it changes the way you think about food for your entire life. The main focus of the book is showing you what a toxic lifestyle most Americans lead, and how specific things in our "normal" diets are literally killing us. Dr. Colbert explains the toxicity of the foods we consume and also explains the benefits of "whole" foods. (Whole grains, unprocessed foods, etc.) The diet itself is basically a "Kosher" diet that shuns highly processed foods and fatty or toxic meats in favor of a diet heavy in whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, fatty fish, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and natural sugars and sweeteners. He also does a wonderful job of making foods that we normally eat sound utterly repulsive. His description of what happens to processed white bread in your intestines makes you hate the stuff. Since I read his section about hot dogs, I have never had another one. Yuk. Weight loss is not the primary goal of this book, but if you follow the diet you WILL loose some weight. I lost almost 40 pounds in a period of under 3 months just by using the knowledge in this book to reduce the ammount of sugar I take in. The beauty of this "diet" is that it is not a diet. It is a fundamental shift in your attitude about the food you eat. You can still have sweet and rich foods, but only occasionally. If your diet is mainly whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and extra virgin olive oil, then an occasional plate of 3 cheese ravioli is no big deal. I am much healthier since I read this book. My whole family has begun to adopt some of the parts of the diet and they are loosing weight as well. Read this book with an open mind and I think you will find it valuable as well...
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Summary: Please don't buy this book
Review: Really, don't buy it. A healthy diet is a healthy diet no matter who eats it. Jesus may have eaten healty , but that does not mean we must eat exactly what He did. There are lots of healthy ways to eat. The Bible is as much a nutrition book as it is a flight manual. To use it as an outline for a diet is a blatent misuse of it's intent.
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