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Summary: It's a very useful and complete book
Review: Again written in a very easy-to-read way, this book is a very complete nutrition guide. It gives you the why's and how's of the differnet food groups and its very eye opening about comercial products and the way so called "healthy products" are marketed. After reading the book I have found myself in a better position to make informed decisions about what I'm buying and the way I'm cooking. The Sears give you a complete perspective without getting in the controversy of whether you should be a vegeterian or not, which I found very important so people of different believes and eating philosophies can enjoy the book equally. I particularly enjoy the sections of feeding your baby and toddler. They very complete and helpful. The book doesn't have recipes or anything but it has some cool ideas. I keep refering back to it everytime need to check in the nutritional information of different foods, or just when I need to give a boost to my health-awareness. It's very well documented (research references wise) and I particularly recommend it for people interested in cancer preventive styles of living.
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Summary: Excellent -- but watch the fish recommendations
Review: An excellent book with one exception -- it heartily recommends regular fish consumption, but fails to mention the problem of methyl mercury and/or PCB contamination in several commonly consumed species of fish. Look for the Environmental Working Group's recommendations on this subject.
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Summary: Easy to understand
Review: By page 7, I was diving into my cupboards and discarding all the foods with hydrogenated oil. I devoured this book, and found this to be the easiest book on nutrition that I have ever read. Cut into bite-size sections, this book was a delight to read. I was able to make consise, informed decisions without feeling pressured into one lifestyle over another. I purschased this book for my Mother-In-Law, who is as far apart from me on the eating spectrum as possible, but who will still be able to glean wonderful and relevant information from this book.
My favorite section was the top twelve food list, honorable mention food list, and top-ten foods for each vitmin, mineral, and food classification. By implementing these foods into my family's lifestyle, I have increased the diversity of our meals, while feeling confident that my family of six is getting all the nutritional requirements that they need. I used the food circle as a guide to create a weekly nutrition plan for my family, and using that, I prepare weekly meal plans using the tops foods for each category. This also helps when it is time to do the shopping, as I only need to get the items on the mealplan, minus what I already have in the pantry. It sure helps for me in the kitchen! As a Mom who doesn't relish her time spent in the kitchen, this book helps me to maximize the nutritional efficiency of the time that I do spend in there!
This book helped me to take the final step into vegetarianism, and introduced me to the world of whole foods. Thanks, Dr. and Martha Sears!
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Summary: My Family Nutrition Bible
Review: By page 7, I was diving into my cupboards and discarding all the foods with hydrogenated oil. I devoured this book, and found this to be the easiest book on nutrition that I have ever read. Cut into bite-size sections, this book was a delight to read. I was able to make consise, informed decisions without feeling pressured into one lifestyle over another. I purschased this book for my Mother-In-Law, who is as far apart from me on the eating spectrum as possible, but who will still be able to glean wonderful and relevant information from this book.
My favorite section was the top twelve food list, honorable mention food list, and top-ten foods for each vitmin, mineral, and food classification. By implementing these foods into my family's lifestyle, I have increased the diversity of our meals, while feeling confident that my family of six is getting all the nutritional requirements that they need. I used the food circle as a guide to create a weekly nutrition plan for my family, and using that, I prepare weekly meal plans using the tops foods for each category. This also helps when it is time to do the shopping, as I only need to get the items on the mealplan, minus what I already have in the pantry. It sure helps for me in the kitchen! As a Mom who doesn't relish her time spent in the kitchen, this book helps me to maximize the nutritional efficiency of the time that I do spend in there!
This book helped me to take the final step into vegetarianism, and introduced me to the world of whole foods. Thanks, Dr. and Martha Sears!
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Summary: good nutrition information for children and adults
Review: Even though the premise of this book is nutrition for children, the information is pertinant to adults too. It's a great reference book on nutrition.
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Summary: Great Intro to Good Nutrition
Review: Having a baby last year made me realize how little I really understood about good nutrition. After over a year of breast-feeding my son, I felt a great sense of responsibility that I must continue this fabulous start I'd given my little boy.For years, I've been relying on the nutritional know-how I received from my mother as a child and teen-ager. Although she was before her time (named my sister after nutritionist Adele Davis), I was in dire need of an update. Dr. Sears (writing this book with his wife Martha Sears, RN) follows his own distant drummer sometimes, but this is precisely what makes his ideas and suggestions so interesting. This book is a good premier on nutrition for anyone with mouths to feed -- even if it starts with a small baby step such as getting your husband to switch from whole to low-fat milk. Now if I can only get him to forget those junko honey nut cornflakes and diet cokes ... I love the three healthy looking kids on the hardcover jacket! I display this book in my kitchen to inspire me.
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Summary: Enlighting
Review: I failed my gestational diabetes test when I was pregnant; but not enough to warrant any concern other than making me attend a class. I was shocked about how little I knew about nutrition! I bought this book when my son was 7 months old to get some guidelines but it is not just a CHILD'S nutrition book; it is an adult nutrition book also. I was fascinated by what I read and felt MUCH more educated about what I was putting into my body and my family's. The book was well written and easy to read ... no guilt trips for me. I have purchased more copies for other adults. It HAS changed my eating choices.
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Summary: Filled with useful information
Review: I found this book to be the most useful of the nutrition books I have bought. Rather than find it guilt inducing I found it refreshing to have a more in depth (but not too technical) explanation about why certain foods are beneficial and the specific health benefits. I also have the book Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health, but I found it to have less information about specific foods and the benefits they offer. I find the Sear's explain things very clearly and thoroughly. While I have not totally changed the way I feed my family I have introduced a wider variety of foods and place more emphasis on certain items and I believe these changes will improve our overall health.
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Summary: Excellent -- but watch the fish recommendations
Review: I give it an A+. Lots of infomation on all aspects of Family Nutition such as Breastfeeding, Soy Foods, What foods is very good for us or bad for our bodies, different types of vitamins & minerals and where we can find it in our foods and lots more. It also devotes a chapter on feeding toddlers. There was a few things I disagree what the author mentioned in the book like provding a nibbler tray for a toddler. I wouldn't want my toddler thinking he/she can eat anytime of the day especially if it was close to dinner/lunch time.
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Summary: The best book I have read on Family Nutrition
Review: I give it an A+. Lots of infomation on all aspects of Family Nutition such as Breastfeeding, Soy Foods, What foods is very good for us or bad for our bodies, different types of vitamins & minerals and where we can find it in our foods and lots more. It also devotes a chapter on feeding toddlers. There was a few things I disagree what the author mentioned in the book like provding a nibbler tray for a toddler. I wouldn't want my toddler thinking he/she can eat anytime of the day especially if it was close to dinner/lunch time.
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