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Summary: wrong information!!!
Review: The two authors didn't do a good research on a couple of things.
For example: According to the FDA yogurt can be called yogurt if it includes L. Bulgaricus and S.Thermophilus and not as stated in the book Thermophilus & Acidophilus!!!!! BIG BIG MISTAKE!!!
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Summary: SuperFoods for any life style
Review: This book certainly caught my attention, and kept it. Although, this book is not meant to be an end all diet, it does support and encourage the use of specific foods for preventative health issues. The discussion on synergy of nutrients alone had me convinced. Dr. Pratt does state that these foods improve the over all health of people who add them to thier diets on a regular basis. An alchoholic for instance, will still significantly benefit from the use of superfoods even if he/she chooses to continue drinking as long as he/she is consistant in consuming superfoods. Of course, superfoods alone is not enough. Quitting and excersise will improve his/her health even more. I have scheduled these superfoods into my diet as soon as I started reading the book. My brain function improved almost immediatly and my eyesight sharpened by the time I got to the chapter on Tomatoes. I am making this book a favorite gift to give my friends and family.
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: This book helped me turn my life around.
I was eating terribly, no energy, 60 lbs over weight with a family history of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's. Dr. Pratt did a great job of making the science of nutrition accessible to me. I am really committed to the idea of using food as a preventative to keep me healthy.
I was leafing through this book in the book store and I thought it was so great I bought it in hard cover (I've since bought another copy for my parents). Since overhauling my diet by elimating processed food, reducing sugar, eliminating fast food while trying to eat at least 10 different super foods every day - I feel AMAZING. I've lost 50 lbs since July (7 to go!) and I have so much energy. It's a huge difference in how I look and feel.
So, Dr. Pratt - I don't know if you read these reviews, but you changed at least one life. Thanks.
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Summary: Sound Nutritional Advice and Not Trying to Sell a Product
Review: This book is an excellent summary of the latest research from the past few years about the benefits of certain foods like salmon and spinach. The things I like about this book are: 1) no product is being sold - The author doesn't make supplements or creams or anything the way that Perricone (The Wrinkle Cure) does. 2)The book only promotes whole foods, not supplements 3) there are excellent recipes using the 14 superfoods 4)The book doesn't focus on the "dont's" just the "do's" 5)It isn't a difficult program to follow. This is a great book for learning about the health benefits of certain foods and getting the inspiration to eat them.
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Summary: Unique and enjoyable way to improve your health
Review: This book is not only fun to read, but also offers incredible facts and an enjoyable way to include these superfoods into your day-to-day life.
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Summary: the easy diet
Review: This book is terrific, informative and a life saver! I've lost
20lbs just by eating the recommended foods and I feel wonderful.
It's an easy read and very well laid out. I recommend this book
to anyone who likes to eat well.
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Summary: Good for what ails you, and tasty too
Review: This excellent new book by medical doctor Steven Pratt pulls together a lot of recent nutritional research in an easily digestible format by focusing on the fourteen most healthy foods, the foods which can be grouped with these fourteen to provide variety, and some basic methods for preparing these foods. This is a presentation to the layman of scientific results. By it's nature, this leads to simplifications and potentially misleading statements. My biggest concern with any book of this type is that it is overstating its case. There is no question in my mind that eating these 14 foods (and avoiding worthless foods) will improve your health. The book is very careful in not quantifying potential gains, but it does come dangerously close to making medically unfounded statements. One I detected is the suggestion that eating cholesterol-reducing foods such as oats and cabbage family vegetables will remove the need for drugs to reduce cholesterol. When I posed a similar question to my physician, he kept to the medically sound albeit very conservative line that the tendency of the body to produce cholesterol is genetic and keeping cholesterol within safe levels for me requires medication, probably for the rest of my life. This is a case study of why books like this tend to overstate their cases. Response to improvements in diet is determined by one's genetic makeup. What works for some may not work for others. The bottom line for the skeptic's view of this book is to take all the statements on benefits from these foods with a grain of salt. They may be right for you, and they may not. Having made the skeptic's case for this book, I turn to the advocate's case. The advantages of the book's simplifications is that you can cruise your megamart with these fourteen (14) foods at the top of your list and focus on those products which are on the list or are allied to the items on the list. While I am not a clinical scientist, I am an informed layman, having developed information systems for medical professionals for 35 years. With those credentials, I believe that eating these foods will, in the long run, be better for your health than not eating them. One of the best aspects of this book is the list of 'sidekicks' to each of these fourteen foodstuffs. Having been a big fan of green vegetables from way back, the list of sidekicks to broccoli is positively erotic, including my favorite Brussels sprouts, cabbage, turnips, and Swiss chard. The only food without a sidekick is tea. Sorry, coffee doesn't make the list. Another favorite sidekick is peanuts. Nuts are on the list, but peanuts actually makes the list because it's a legume, like beans, and not a nut. A little misdirection there. The best thing about this list is that, to my mind, only three of these foods (oats, soy, and yogurt) are uninteresting. I personally find all the others to be range from being pleasant (broccoli, salmon, spinach, pumpkin, tomatoes, beans, and turkey) to being positively delightful (blueberries, oranges, tea, turkey, and walnuts). One great thing about the tasty foods such as blueberries and walnuts is that they can brighten up the taste of the bland stuff (oats and yogurt especially). With the warning that I am neither a medical nor a nutritional professional, I believe this book tends to raise questions about the currently very popular low carbohydrate diet doctrines. I say this not because many of the foods on this list are high on the devil's list of low carb advocates, but that high carbohydrate foodstuffs are often the best of mates to some of these foods. Two famous pairings are beans and rice and berry jam and bread. The book contains a very nice section of recipes by a very talented and recognized spa chef. They are all very tasty looking and the notes to the recipes contain a lot of hints, such as the most nutritious varieties of sweet potatoes and the method for making yogurt cheese. But, I will probably never make any of them. Instead, I will file away all of the food combinations and use them when I select recipes from other cookbooks or improvise recipes on my own. If these fourteen foods represent a 'kosher' or best selection, it would be nice to see a selection of 'parve' foods. That is, foods which fall into a neutral to good category. Two prime candidates would be olive oil and red wine. The book mentions and recommends both and is wisely careful in citing wine as a beneficial food. This interest is addressed to some extend with the Lifestyle Pyramid which endorses whole grain products, healthy fats, and reasonable portions of red meats and eggs. In spite of the opening skeptical paragraph, I believe this is a delightfully promising book which gives easy to follow guidelines without oversimplifying things too much. For those who are not already fond of spinach and turkey and tomatoes, I recommend they establish a relationship with a good book on Italian food and start with turkey Florentine (turkey and spinach) and vegetable lasagna. With a list price under $25, I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Very Good Simple but extensive and Informative Guide
Review: This is a great book about foods that are packed with life enhancing properties. The idea that some foods are better than others is not new, but there are some foods, it turns out, that are especially beneficial and we should make a concentrated effort to include these tasty foods. The book discusses the difference between macronutrient type of analysis (protien, carb, fat...) and micronutrient (antioxidants...) analysis and shows how some foods are loaded with healful micronutrients while others are not. The book describes the main superfoods (beans, wild salmon, broccoli, blueberries, tea, ...) AND importantly many substitutes or related foods to these super good ones. There are menus, shopping lists, nutrient analysis, and overall great down-to-earth discussion and information. An excellent and simple but elaborate guide to the SUPERFOODS we have heard so much about but before this book didn't know what it was all about. I also can't recommend enough a remarkable book about authentic wellness called "Effortless Wellbeing". Where has this book been been all my life was all I could say after reading it. Simple, to the point, includes simple mental and physical exercises and various ideas that produce wellness naturally. Amazing reading, and a great addition to the purchase of "Superfoods Rx". HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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Summary: Superfoods by Pratt
Review: This is an excellent reference work for your personal health
library. The author describes strategies for maximizing
antioxidants in the diet by eating blueberries,pumpkin and
strawberries. Isoflavones may be found in soy-based foods.
Fiber and B vitamins may be obtained from beans. Vitamin D
may be added to yogurt to potentiate the calcium added to the diet. This work contains many superfood menus which are easy
to interpret and reproduce for your eating pleasure. A main
theme of the book is to provide badly needed nutrients by
eating a variety of foods which introduce antioxidants and
fiber into the body. This will help deal with the natural
inflammation which many middle age people find difficult to
manage. i.e. gut inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome etc.
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Summary: great book!
Review: This is one of the best books on nutrition that I've read, and I've read a lot. Dr. Pratt uses everyday language that is easy to understand. It's easy to add all these foods to your diet. And the Pumpkin Pudding is delicious!
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