Dieting for Dummies

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Summary: GREAT
Review: BEST BOOK I'VE PURCHASED IN YEARS REGARDING PROPER EATING HABITS & THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CURRENT DIET FADS...THANX!

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Summary: Makes a great gift
Review: Give it as a gift. Tell that special someone that they are not only fat but stupid as well.

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Summary: This book is great
Review: I am really learning a lot about my eating habits and better choices/ways to eat from this book. It's easy to read and has an easy to follow format that is addictive in itself. I'm making life changes and this book was right on time to help me in that pursuit.

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Summary: This book is great
Review: I am really learning a lot about my eating habits and better choices/ways to eat from this book. It's easy to read and has an easy to follow format that is addictive in itself. I'm making life changes and this book was right on time to help me in that pursuit.

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Summary: Dieting for Dummies
Review: I think this book is an excellent resource. I completely dissagree with the customer from Ann Arbor. As the title indicates, this book is intended to give the general public basic background about healthy eating and weight loss. This sound, research-based information is sorely needed in response to fad diet claims so prominent these days. And, by the way, eggs do not cause heart disease, and neither does dietary cholesterol. It is well known that saturated fat is the culprit. Maybe you should have read the book instead of returned it?

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Summary: Best "healthy" diet book
Review: I've read them all -- and as always the "dummies" book is more than a quick fix. This book is FULL if information, facts, tips and just plain healthy stuff!

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Summary: A simplistic, ill-informed book
Review: Some of the information in this book might be useful to someone starting from ground zero - someone who knows absolutely nothing about dieting or who still believes that grapefruit burns calories or that fasting is safe. For those who have any knowledge of nutrition, however, the book presents nothing original or even interesting. Worse, though, the book also contains misinformation. Kirby knows little about vegetarian nutrition and is apparently unaware of what is really now old news - that the old-style food combining of the seventies actually isn't necessary. She also proposes a hard-boiled egg as a healthful diet snack, so one has to wonder about her general nutritional knowledge as well. Such a high-cholesterol snack might be all right once in a while, but it's hardly a good food for someone trying to avoid heart disease as well as lose weight. I used to believe I could trust information in the "For Dummies," books, but now I'm not so sure. This is the first book I've ever returned in my life.

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Summary: Useful Information, Boring Delivery
Review: This book does contain useful information based on scientific facts, not quick fixes and fads; but its delivery is BORING. It just doesn't make the information interesting or compelling. And it didn't pay much attention on how to plan well-balanced meals. Further, there was no advice on how to incorporate "treats" wisely into your regular eating plan or how to incorporate exercise into your daily life. However, it had three really good chapters: "Ten Myths about Dieting," "Ten Ways to Cut Calories," and "Ten Rules for Healthy Living." I don't recommend buying buy this book, but do check out the three chapters mentioned next time you're at your local bookstore. As far as this subject goes, "The Complete Guide to Losing Weight" does it best. Overall rating: C

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Summary: The Same Old Theories That Don't Work In Practice
Review: This book is packed with information -- there is no question about that! It is full of accepted, conventional wisdom. And that is why I did not like the book. When I read it I said to myself "here we go again". The introduction says "You can trust us, we are from the American Dietetic Association". But I think it is the same old junk that the FDA and the USDA and all our so-called experts have been giving us for the last 25 years while we get fatter and fatter and lose more and more of our grandparents and parents to heart disease and diabetes. Diabetes has become a problem now even for children as young as 10 years old. Why? I cannot understand why it is taking so long for the word to get out. There is a revolution going on right under our noses. In my opinion, while people like Dr. Atkins and others were on the right track, only Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades have put it all together and come up with a health program that really works. I've lost 55 pounds,lowered my cholesterol by 17%, my triglycerides by 66%, and my LDL by 15%. Moreover, I've rasied my HDL (the "good" cholesterol)by 13%. My blood pressure is now around 120/70. My ratio of Total Cholesterol to HDL is down from 5.0 to 3.7. (5.0 and over is associated with heart disease). I've read all of this stuff before! I've been to Weight Watchers, Nutri Systems and Jenny Craig. I've tried all kinds of diets. Trying to follow the food pyramid just doesn't work. Let's face it, we just don't have time to prepare and eat so-called "well balanced meals" (with too many carbs anyway)day in and day out. In my opinion, this book is a waste of your money and time and effort. If you want to know what really works and why buy "The Protein Power Lifeplan" by Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades (on this site) instead of this book. Better yet, buy them both! Try this one (or the other) for a year and then try the other for a year and then email and let me know how you did.

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Summary: Informative read
Review: This book was my first read from the for dummies series. I found it informative. Although some of the content was a repeat of what I have already read as a chronic dieter, I still found the information helpful. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who would like to learn the ins and outs without the mumbo jumbo. It also has helpful nutritional info at the back.