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Summary: Good read.
Review: As a student earning my master's degree in public health, I have taken a special interest in nutrition books that are on the market. It often frightens me when I read the things that are getting published. This is an excellent book that provides the basics that one might need to improve health. I only gave it four stars because I felt it lacked some specifics that a person might look for. For instance, how much one should exercise to lose or maintain weight. If you want specifics you may have to supplement with another book.
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Summary: Avoid..
Review: Biased and condescending
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Summary: No Nonsense Approach to Nutrition
Review: Dreamers need not read this book. If you believe that there is a magic herb, vitamin combination, etc that will relieve your need to understand how what you eat impacts your long term looks and health... seek guidance elsewhere (AM radio is full of such information). If you can wade through a fair amount of information to be used as a starting point in building your nutrition IQ, this is a great book. Includes nutrition specifics those with special dietary requirements.
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Summary: An excellent text ...
Review: Excellent articles based on medical and scientific research. Topics are very broad.
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Summary: Concise, scientific and medically relevant text of nutrition
Review: I completely disagree with the review of October 25, 1998. Total Nutrition is a serious medical text about nutrition that supports its claims with scientific studies. I have a serious medical condition (a kidney transplant), and have had to learn a considerable amount about nutrition in order to keep my transplant healthy. I have over 60 books on nutrition, and this is the ONLY text that I reccommend to fellow transplant patients to understand nutrition.The book is in three parts: Part I: Nutrition is explained in detail so that the reader understands what a macronutrient (fat, protein and carbohydrates) and micronutrient (vitamins and minerals) is. Part II: Nutrition and its importance to aging and gender is explained, everything from infants to geriatrics. Part III: Nutrition as it relates to chronic and acute illnesses is explained. Every manner of illness is covered (I learned the most from the section on kidney ailments). I highly reccommend this book. If you have very little or no understanding of nutrition, Understanding Nutrition (by Ziff Davis press) is a very good introduction to nutrition and explains it in very easy terms. I read that book first and nutrition became very easy to comprehend. Stay healty!!
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Summary: Very disappointing, stay away from this one!
Review: I purchased this book because it had a section on nutrition for infants, but it turned out to be a very long book with no detailed information. (Over 800 pages, but the recommendation for infants aged 1 - 2 years included a suggestoin to feed "Sweets to meet caloric needs" with no definition as to what these caloric needs are. (I admit I was suprised to learn that I was supposed to feed my infant sweets.) Victor Herbert also spends a considerable amount of time looking down his nose at anybody who would sell Vitamin supplements. He believes that any vitamins, such as a multivitamin, or vitamin E or C supplements are completely worthless. His references for this information appears to be the many articles he himself has written over the years. He apparently makes quite an income on dubunking other nutritionists while offering absolutely no scientific evidence of his own. This book is 800 pages of his opinion - I wasted my money - don't waste yours!
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Summary: Excellent basic information
Review: I'm giving this book to my young-adult son, who asked for advice on daily requirements and on what vitamins do what. I bought the book for myself to try to analyze whether to try a high protein, low carbohydrate diet. It is great for both uses. I recommend it as a practical reference for meeting many diverse nutritional challenges. My main criticism is the lack of a comprehensive reference list for further study.
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Summary: environmental sociologist looks at this book
Review: If it ignores biochemical individuality and pretends that all foods have the same effects on all bodies, the book is worthless and very dangerous nutritionally. It will certainly help some, though that is only because around 50% of people in the world would apply to its recommendations. For instance, foods can have different effects in different bodies. If you want to know more about your body type before you begin a nutritional program, I suggest the following books instead. Most of the information presently known is from the sympathetic system side and very little is known about the autonomic, though these recommendations can protect you from such false suggestions of a 'common good program' for all people. Know thyself, before you make a nutritional plan. With the following books you can: Day, Phillip. 2001. Health Wars. Kent, England: Credence Publications. Wiley, Rudolf A, Ph.D. 1989. Biobalance: The Acid/Alkaline Solution to the Food-Mood-Health Puzzle. M.D. Foreword by Howard E. Hagglund. Hurricane, Utah: Essential Science Publications. Kristall, Harold J, D. D. S, and James M Haig, N.C. 2002. The Nutrition Solution: A Guide to Your Metabolic Type. M.D. Foreword by John R. Lee. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. Kliment, Felicia Drury. 2002. The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet: An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes. Chicago, Illinois: Contemporary Books.
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Summary: Solid Facts- nothing but the truth
Review: If you are not one that wants the truth. Do not read this book. If you are sick of being ripped off at the super market and the BS health stores that steal your cash with fake pills and powders, then this is for you. This book is filled with nothing but facts that are solid as a rock. Nothing else. If you want to see it some other way you can go ahead and fool yourself by ignoring the facts written here. Many of these things are not even a debate. They are simply the truth. Reading this made me realize why so many doctors and people with a solid education in this field that I know laugh at all of the stupid rip off ads and all the money wasted. A fact:More money is wasted on the BS, lies, and scams this book tells about than spent on proven health care by professionals. Health care that does something more than empty your wallet.
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Summary: No Nonsense Approach to Nutrition
Review: On the upside, the book is a comprehensive collection of many doctors works on nutrition (as according to FDA and "old school" knowledge). It does explain very well many concepts with great details as expected in any college type text book. On the downside, the editor Victor Herbert sounds like a very angry skeptic that looks down upon anyone that contributes to the field of nutrition that does not have a "M.D., F.A.C.P" after their name. According to him, even PH.D's are "quacks" (a term by the way which he grossly overuses throughout the book). I was looking for a unbiased, non-fad, non-hype book on nutrition and what I found was a complete one-sided story that could have been written by Olvier Stone - trying to expose all nutrition's misinformation like... - Don't beleive any advice about nutrition unless it comes from an M.D. - Organic foods and Health stores are a scam - Vitamin supplements are completely worthless and do nothing - Processed foods are just as good as natural foods .. the list goes on. Herbert makes claims that he does not back up, with the exception of a few references to his own books that he wrote. This is like a hacker using several computers to hide where they are really coming from. If you are one that has enough common sense to block out the biased opinion and learn from the facts, then this book is useful. However I am sure there are better choices out there for some good facts.
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