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Summary: Open To Interpretation
Review: This book starts out superbly. It brilliantly explains the importance of nutrient density in unrefined foods, and thus warrants the purchase price.However, you might draw different conclusions from his data. Some people may thrive on his primarily vegan diet, but will all? Maybe other people have great health when 45% of the diet consists of unrefined vegetables, fruits and beans (half of what he recommends). Why not include flexibility for a range of metabolic types and environmental conditions? Regretably, Dr. Fuhrman criticises such a nutrition plan based on a cursory reading. By making multiple mistatements about the other plan, he undermines his own credibility. Are his brilliant arguments in the first half of the book equally superficial? Naturopathic Dr. Ron Schmid gives a completely different view of unrefined foods in "Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine", which makes a good counterpoint to "Eat to Live."
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Summary: I found the fountain of eternal health!!
Review: Everything positive you read below is true... Fuhrman is not a genius, but he deserves great praise for collecting everything that is common sense, and compiling it into a no-nonsense book that addresses every question that you will have. I cannot say enough good things about this book, and wish that everyone that I know would learn to eat to live. Some consider this book extreme, but it really depends on what you consider extreme. Most people of the world would consider how North Americans eat to be "extreme" - as in extremely bad. Don't be fooled into imitations, or fad diets like Atkins or South Beach. Buy this book and learn to Eat to Live!
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Summary: Easy Read - Let's see how the diet goes!
Review: I got the book yesterday and read it cover-to-cover in a few hours - it is an easy and fast read. The instructions are straightforward, and he explains the reasons behind his instructions well enough to satisfy. For those that are sticklers for sources, he provides plenty of them as well, though I doubt I will check up on them myself. Good Points of the Book: Easy to read, simple instructions, clear explanations. A good list of the (new) staples you will need, some diet plans, some recipes (though if you undertake this diet, you will want some decent vegan recipe books with nutrition information!) Bad points of the book: A lot of repitition, a lot of lecturing, and some strongly worded passages (especially about the other diets, borderline rants in my opinion - justified, but rants nonetheless!) Now for the Diet .... What is the skinny (pun intended) of the diet? Well, you probably should buy the book if you are interested, but the gist of it as I see it is the following: High bulk, high nutrition vegetables in copious quantities, small amount of fat, small amount of animal products eventually (he allows for it but clearly thinks it is not required). Think, lots of salads ("Salads are the main part of the meal") with vingegar or just a tiny amount of oil, think vegetarian cuisine. For example: He has a 1 pound - 1 pound rule: Goal of 1 pound of raw vegetables and 1 pound cooked vegetables per day. Whew. Won't be hungry - and may not be able to finish all of that, either... The 6 week plan he has you go on to start-up his regime is about as strict a vegan diet as I have ever seen. If you get through the 6 weeks, you re-introduce some fats, some animal products (fish mostly, but all of that is occasional - like 3 oz. of fish, 1-2 times a week). The good news: You aren't measuring portions for most of your diet, certainly not strictly, and you won't be hungry at all. And you will lose weight - possibly quite a lot of it. If his book is to believed, you will also be in excellent health at a new lower weight. The bad news: The 6 weeks could be difficult if you aren't inclined to 'eat your vegetables.' In conclusion: This is a new take on diets in general. It blows away the notion that you have to reduce the amount of food you eat to get thin. The problem of people feeling like they are starving as they diet will go away. This is a real Lateral thinking approach to the problem of hunger AND reducing calories. Notes and personal editorial: I am skpetical that this diet will be stuck to by most Americans for cultural reasons - since it will be difficult to eat at many restaurants, and most people are not comfirtable enough in the kitchen to make tasty enough dishes to hold interest (I think that the vast majority of dieters will be eating the same iceberg-lettuce-tomato-and-vinegar salad in general 6-8 weeks later as on the first day, even though most healthy meals are easy and not bland!) Overall, this is a diet I will give a try - I will do the 6 weeks, and if I feel better, lose weight, and attain my health goals through it, will be worth the change in diet and lifestyle for me. For the prospective reader and participant - you will have to decide for yourself - since this is on the cutting edge of the vegetarian diet becoming mainstream. Now for some good vegan cookbooks .....
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Summary: Healthy Diet Means a Healthy Body
Review: I found this book through the Hallelujah Diet web site. Although I certainly don't need to lose weight (105 lbs.), I'm always interested in learning anything about healthy eating. Since beating melanoma with a drastic diet change (no surgery or chemo), I certainly know the benefits and highly recommend this way of eating, FOREVER. I say it's not a DIET; it's simply HEALTHY eating. You can eat all you want but it has to be really healthy. And most people simply don't understand that most of what we eat in this country is NOT healthy, even though it may be delicious.
I think the book is an excellent additon to my library on healthy eating.
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Summary: you have got to be kidding..
Review: i have a used copy of this book.. my pcp, my ob/gyn, and my father's cardiologist could NOT agree with the fast weight loss that he suggests as being healthy... all of them said, anything that causes fast weight loss, will not stay off in the long term nor is healthy...
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Summary: The Best Diet Book -- EVER!!!
Review: As a fitness professional, I am constantly being asked: "How come I'm not losing weight when I exercise all the time?" They don't want to hear the reason -- because they eat the food they love. This book will explain in layman's language why we must change our eating habits. Don't waste your money on any other diet book like Atkins or Zone, BUY THIS ONE AND READ IT!! It's the best!
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Summary: Excellent book!!!!!!!
Review: I have studied nutrition for about 29 years so far. My formal education includes graduate school courses (such as biochemistry) with medical students. I consider myself to have a deep understanding of nutrition. And of course, I have read a lot of nutrition books too. I rate this book as one of the best I have *ever* read. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: The only book you need! It works!!!
Review: I never seem to have enough time to follow a diet. I didn't even have enough time to read this entire book. I skipped to the plan for rapid weight loss and followed the most basic plan. It works. I lost pounds, had energy, felt great, did not spend a lot of time preparing foods. I recommend this to everyone I talk to.
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Summary: The only one out of the thousands that gets it right!
Review: This is the best diet book every written for the layperson. Fuhrman is the only one who gets it right, every single time. There is no other way than to emphasize nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits--these should form the core of the healthy diet and there are no acceptable shortcuts. Unlike almost any other diet book author, Fuhrman provides peer-reviewed citations for every important statement. His book is based on the soundest and latest nutritional advice. He pulls no punches, he does not infantalize the reader, and he provides only good, solid information. Nothing else even comes close. The only flaw in the otherwise perfect presentation is the salesman-like tone, which is totally unecessary. The material speaks for itself.
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Summary: Good diet, if you can stand the food
Review: I read this book and tried it and lasted 2 days. I just couldn't stand eating so many vegetables, whole grains and fruits. It became nauseating. That's the problem with most diets...they have you eating A LOT of a certain food group and you become repulsed by the food after awhile. I do think this diet can be really effective if you can stand to follow it. I just think it's very difficult to follow.
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