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Summary: How to eat-enjoy!
Review: The French paradox has confounded doctors for years. They skip the gym, smoke more, drink more and enjoy more rich foods than Americans. And we Americans are fatter and have more heart disease.
The scientist author offers two explainations. One they eat real food. Two is their way of eating. The first is simple. We eat crap. Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of cream in our coffee. Same poison in margarine instead of butter. Soy protein instead of goose liver pate. Our fast food is gross. Sugar in my hamburger patty, bun and fries too! If people didn't eat it one hundred years ago, it isn't likely to be real food.
Second is how we eat. Meet another couple for dinner on a weekend. Their cell phones ring again and again. Business, the kids, discord with relatives,... And in thirty minutes they have wolfed down their meal and are ready to drive across town to the next event. Maybe next time we could meet at 7-11 for a microwave burrito.
When you travel you see Europeans relax by the hour with coffee leisurely enjoying their meal and company. It seems a lost art in the USA. Eating is best relaxed, with friends and family, really tasting your meal. Put your fork down and talk. Listen. Enjoy. Turn off the phone. Sit at the table with nice music. Turn off the TV.
Enjoy your meals. Enjoy your friends and family. Enjoy your life.
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Summary: The New Look in Food
Review: This book applies "common sense" to eating, and suggests "the French diet" to Americans. The main point is to eat "real foods" and avoid "faux foods", and how to tell the difference. He spent two years as a Research Fellow in Lyon France. He ate as much as he wanted, and lost weight (p.7). The author is a historian at University of Pittsburgh. The book has a list for further research. The beginning says the book is intended to be an enjoyable informational and educational supplement, not medical advice.There is a fashion in foods. One year we're told butter and eggs (the traditional defense against tuberculosis) are bad for you; years later we are told just the opposite. The life insurance weight table from 1940 only reflects the Great Depression, the worst catastrophe in the twentieth century. What was the life expectancy then? "There are no fat people in France. If you find any, they speak English" (p.15). Perhaps an oversimplification? Eating a French diet (bread, butter, creamy cheese, etc.) caused a loss of weight or volume. The average French life span is longer (p.17), even though they "smoke like fiends". Bad fat comes from red animal meats (or the ingested chemicals?) not from milk (always considered "good for you"). Higher consumption of animal fat correlates to higher heart disease (p.21). A fat deprived diet lowers the metabolic rate; the body burns up fewer calories. Then the body conserves fat (p.24). Those who eat poorly, and too much, gain weight. You have to eat right, take vitamins, and walk more. You cannot lose weight sitting by the television. Page 27 notes the result of eating bread and pastries, cheese, butter, cream, and whole mile products. Don't snack between meals, get outside and walk around; take time when eating. (Note that his family were young and active.)
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Summary: Finally - A healthy relationship with your food
Review: This book has changed my life period. In fact, I'm so angry now that I've learned all of the misinformation I've been given all these years. The preservatives and processed sugars in packaged and low-fat foods are what make Amerians fat! It's so hard to believe that eating cheese, milk, olive oil and cream could make me lose weight, but it did! I lost 10lbs in 6 weeks and have never felt better. I have struggled with intestinal problems all my life, but eating natural foods has helped to minimize this problem. It's about eating quality food that has higher levels of nutritious fat. And unlike Atkins, you can eat bakery goods as part of your regular diet. The book teaches you that you can eat desserts and enjoy foods that are rich because your body is satisfied with the smaller portions of quality food you are ingesting. I can't recommend this book more. As someone who has tried all other diets, including the Weight Watchers points system, this is the best. It teaches you how to choose foods and most importantly, why each food item contributes, or damages, your overall health. Thank you Dr. Clower for bringing the mediterranean lifestlye into my life. I have a healthy relationship with my food now and don't feel the need to binge on sugar and other chemical-based foods.
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Summary: At last a solution we can live with!
Review: This book has changed the way my husband and I eat, forever! We sit down and actually spend time eating and talking together, enjoying the wonderful food Dr. Clower has taught us is healthful to eat. We love the cheeses, whole milk, butter, crusty breads, fruits and pastas that are encouraged in this book. I have lost 10 pounds so far (5 weeks) and know that is just the beginning. I just wish there were more recipies included in the book, because the ones I've made (from the book) have been a big hit. Also, I was a chocoholic big time and have found that a small piece of fine chocolate melted on the toungue satisfies completely...a secret shared by Dr. Clower. If you've ever torn through your cupboards desperate to find something sweet, or if you're tired of "diets" and ready for a delicious alternative with great results...order this book now!
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Summary: Learn how to eat with this book!
Review: This books gave me lots of tips on how to eat better, less and enjoy foods. I didn't like much all the scientific fatcs and studies in certain chapters, it would have been better to have a chapter with more recepies, examples of what a french eat in a regular day. I think the author should make a 2nd part, and I recomend readers to read "Eat your self slim" after reading this excellent book and with little effort you will lose weight like I did.
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Summary: The Fat Fallacy
Review: This is a great book, I couldn't put it down. The recipes are delicious and I have been enjoying cooking and eating real food. The author comments on each recipe which I found helpful. I read it quickly and have returned to it several times to look things up and use the recipes. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Best No-diet Diet Book
Review: This is simply the best way of eating, it is a natural and intuitive style of "diet." I think we as Americans need to retrain our thinking about food. It's not about about stuffing your face at the all you can eat buffet, but savoring food and recognizing it's power to keep us well or make us sick, ie, the American epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease,etc. Europeans have eaten this way for generations, they enjoy their meals and are healthier than Americans in general. I also think the author's web site is worth viewing for the great tips and recipes.
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Summary: lifechanging and liberating
Review: This is the first time I've written a review of an amazon book, and I feel compelled to do so because the book has so radically and wonderfully changed my life. For years, we hosted French students in our home and I asked them questions about how they stayed so slim consuming so much cheese, wine, etc. They fussed at me about using low fat products and avoiding cheese. To the French, wine, butter, bread and whole-fat cheeses are health foods. This book answered the questions of why the French are slim, (whew! I thought maybe they'd all sold their souls to the devil!) and brought such joy in both cooking and eating to my life- something we Americans rarely get to experience -we're always told that eating is full of horrible dangers, which, for Americans, it is!
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Summary: MUST READ - GOOD FOOD FOR GOOD HEALTH
Review: This is the most balanced book on getting the 'right diet' that I've ever read. The author has exposed America's unhealthy obsession with 'low-fat' and 'no-fat' foods (which the author refers to as 'faux foods') and the fact that Americans are increasingly fat, fat, fatter!
Since I have been on this diet, all the cravings for junk food have gone. I was someone who lived for sugar and now I do not want any of it. I use to crave coffee in the morning as well but realized I didn't want that wired up feeling & acid stomach. I switched over to a caffeine-free coffee substitute made from soyabeans I found on the net at www.S o y c o f f e e.c om.
It so easy for someone to tell you to eat less, but if you are craving bad foods, eventually you will fail. In the first five days I was on this diet all the craving ceased and I was already 8 lbs down. If you were like me and cannot wait for your next slice of cake and at the same time really want to change your lifestyle, Try this.
After only one week of beginning to modify my diet according to the author's suggestions, I am eating smaller amounts of REAL food and have already lost 2 pounds. And I'm happy! Hey! Anyone who tells me 'Eat chocolate -- it's good for you!' is going to get my hearty recommendation. BUY THIS BOOK!! If you are serious about making a change, this book will not disappoint.
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Summary: a really interesting read
Review: This isn't a diet book at all. More like a recommendation to change the way you think about food. Having never been on a diet in my life, I can only imagine how hard it is to deprive yourself of good, healthy food, then end up still fat. As a "naturally thin" person, I've spent my whole life eating as described in this book. No fast food, no low-fat/no-fat chemical stuff, no artificial sweeteners. It's a great way to live and more people should try it.
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