Nutrition Books

Here is a book that a vegetarian can love! The recipes are varied, the food delicious, and the diet nutritious. All of this is served up with lucidity and humor. A treat all around.

Vegetarian experts Poneman and Greene have written the perfect book for harried parents who want to do the right thing but dread the consequences... Well organized and written in entertaining prose, this book offers sound facts about the health benefits to kids of plant-based diets, citing such trustworthy sources as the American Council on Nutrition and the American Dietetic Association. Poneman and Green have humorous, practical, and insightful advice for wary parents. This is one smart guidebook, because it addresses the key topic on a parent's mind-how your child's decision is going to affect you-and offers the most practical advice to date about helping your kid make an effortless transition to a plant-based diet.

This book is full of simple facts on how to be a healthy vegetarian teen. It helped me understand how EASY it is to get all the protein and iron I need every day. I liked learning about all the famous athletes who are vegetarian. This book is also great because it's easy to read and important information is shown in simple charts and tables. After reading this book, I feel much more educated about my decision to give up meat.

Not only is this book a goldmine of great information and inspiration, it's light-hearted! There is no preaching here.

My husband and I have always thought about becoming vegetarian but have often wondered how to deal with our three children. This book has given me a great deal of insight. So, yesterday when my 8 year old said, "maybe I should become a vegetarian", I had the info I need to get started!

I especially love Debra's and Emily's humor woven throughout the book. I enjoyed "What, No Meat?!" from cover to cover. You may not be interested in becoming vegetarian and that's ok - this book is still worth a read. The recipes will make it easier to get to the five veggie servings per day that most of our kids are not getting.

Read it, you'll like it!

I started skimming this book and ended up reading right through it. It's entertaining and full of useful info. With a vegetarian teenage boy in the house, I wanted to make sure I had the whole "how to get enough protein" issue covered. I found plenty on that, and also on calcium and iron and other health issues. There are lots of recipes I want to try, especially for holiday meals, and there are good suggestions about eating out. I like what they say about how to handle the etiquette issues, like dealing with invitations to dinner parties, and how to avoid alienating friends and family. Over all, I think this is a really practical, helpful guide for parents of vegetarian kids-and also for anyone considering becoming a vegetarian!

A great calendar for yourself or to give as gifts to loved ones. We all can use this calendar as an every day fun and helpful reminder to take care of yourself. With a nice design layout, this calendar looked great on my fridge all through 2007 and I'm getting the new 2008 one for myself now!

I like calendars with cute kittens just as much as the next girl, but this year I want to work on being the cute one. So I figure why not get a wall calendar that helps me meet my goals? This calendar has a lot of good health tips, but my favorite part is the recipes. I also like the check box for each day that I am physically active because exercise is just as important as nutrition.

It's easy to slip into bad habits, even if you start out with a head of steam to eat better, get more exercise, and generally take better care of yourself. This Calendar provides reminders and support. It contains recipes that actually work and taste good. It's colorful and fun so that the reminders aren't ignored or perceived as "nagging".

This calendar is a nice visual reminder of all the little healthy things I can do to make my life better. I've been using the 2007 version, and just got a copy of 2008.

I thought I knew how to handle high cholesterol, but this book taught me stuff I didn't know I didn't know. Besides a good treatment on self-help options, it has a nice overview of different cholesterol-lowering drugs that gives me the language to be able to discuss these issues intelligently with my doctor. She writes in a friendly, accessible style but still goes into fairly good detail about specific items that are easy to skip if they don't pertain. (For example, I thought her advice on how to handle a cigarette addiction was great, but I don't smoke.)

In my last physical exam, my blood tests showed that I have high cholesterol for the first time in my life. I wanted to learn about high cholesterol before my appointment with my doctor to discuss treatment. I read several books on the subject and found this one to be the best! Dr McGowan explained what cholesterol is in terms I could actually understand. Besides that, she covers all areas that affect your cholesterol level with suggestions on how to lower the bad cholesterol and raise the good cholesterol. Specific topics covered include: Diet, Supplements, Exercise, Quit Smoking, and Medications. After reading and studying this book, I feel ready to discuss my options intelligently with my doctor. I wish there were more practical and down-to-earth books on this subject....like this one. Most books about cholesterol read like they are written for doctors and scientists instead of the common people like me.

Mary McGowan,M.D., well known and highly respected expert on the treatment of lipids, previously wrote an extremely helpful book titled: "Heartfitness for Life".(Read the customer reviews for that book!). Among the many areas she covers are treatment for homocysteine, for which many physicians don't bother to test, and for LPa,which is "badder" than the "bad" cholesterol,LDL. Too many physicians have no idea what LPa is, and some actually argue against testing for it, as they have no idea how to treat it. In this her latest book, she adds additional information on lowering LPa. The book is full of new, clearly explained practical information. I can't recommend it too highly, for anyone, beginner or long time learner having concerns about their lipid status. It should be required reading for cardiologists, internists, and family physicians, who could use this book as a resource for their patients, and in many cases for themselves.

A wonderfully down to Earth and sensible book. Lots of tips for everyday things you can easily do. Very helpful and useful! I highly recommned this book to everyone.

I finished this book two days after receiving it and found it to be very motivating. I have not only customized an "active wellness" plan for myself, but also for my son and my brother. The guidelines in the book are easy to follow for basic good health (no fads or hype found here!).

I received the book on a Friday and by Saturday evening I had completely read this book. Not only is this book easy to understand, it is motivating and uplifting. I think its the concept of goals-- why should we approach our "Wellness" plans any differently than our financial plans. They both require short-term and long-term goals. Over the last three weeks I have followed the program, which I customized for myself, and I have lost about 4 pounds and I am now going to the gym three times a week and doing cardiovascular workouts for 45 minutes (that was unheard of for me a month ago), but I realize to reach my goals I've got to do these things. Active Wellness teaches you to realize this and helps to give you the inspiration you need to get going. I am truly pleased with this book. It has even taught me how to manage my stress in my daily dealings through meditation and visualization. It truly is an mind-body-spirit connection to achieving any goal for yourself. Definitely worth the read and implementation into your life.

This is the first book I have read that has helped me create a total health program for myself. Active Wellness guides you as you determine what is right for you in eating, exercising and stress management. It's easy to read and understand, and it is very motivating. I am already seeing the results!

A comprehensive and thoughtful guide to feeling good and getting fit, "Active Wellness" has helped me achieve a greater sense of well-being. Thanks to this book, I've become a healthier, thinner, less-stressed-out individual. Plus, check out the luscious recipes! They'll help you ditch junk food and not even miss it.

Adelgaza con tan solo llevar una dieta nutriente rica en proteínas fortaleciendote..

se pone uno en peligro: LA DESNUTRICION ES LA PUERTA DE ENTRADA DE MUCHAS ENFERMEDADES FISICAS Y EMOCIONALES.

Estas dietas son eficaces y BIEN BALANCEADAS. NO te dejan con hambre ni te sientes agotado a la semana de estarlas haciendo

ver que, al terminar una dieta, parecía yo flor de la semana pasada y aplastada por un camión...
Estas dietas no lo permiten..te nutren y te bajan de peso sin quitarte energía:
YO LAS USE PARA BAJAR CUANDO LEI ESA MARAVILLA DE "REVOLUCION TOTAL "

que entreteje la buena presentación física con la INDISPENSABLE NUTRICION BALANCEADA !

This guide is very practical and deals with all aspects of eldercare and caring to the caregiver. I highly recommend it.

My brother and I take care of my eighty-year-old mother. She has
diabetic neuropathy and can't walk. But she's a good kid and
we take care of her. This book has helped. Although the object of the book at first seems to be to develop a care plan; it really is a book of primary skills that you need in caregiving.
The book is best because you are not overwhelmed with 465 ways
to help your loved one. This is a primary and basic skills book.
Buy this book if you are new at caregiving and don't know where to start. Because the American Medical Associarion wrote it, I imagine that it would be good for all caregivers to buy it. I just love this book. It's like a Boy Scout manual. It's user-friendly for your brain. And sometimes simplicity can do more good that needless complications and theories. Thank you and I wish you luck.

This book is a must-have for anyone responsible for realistic decision making about his/her ability to provide health care at home, as well as an excellent how-to guide for those who accept the inherent responsibilities of the caregiver. I consider it the one "best" guide of those available to meet the needs of the growing number of home caregivers.

I am an Illinois legal aid attorney and owner of Southwest Medicals, an online medical supply and equipment business. I strongly recommend this book. Very informative, full of helpful tips and resources. This book helps make a challenging situation much easier. I also recommend The Comfort of Home, An Illustrated Step by Setp Guide for Caregivers, 2nd Edition, by Maria M Meyer.

If you're trying to learn about amino acids this book is a good place to start. At just over 100 pages it's a bit short. For instance, the amino acid serine is covered in seven lines. It's also approaching 20 years old. Having said that it still provides a lot of useful info. And combined with "The Amino Revolution" by Robert Erdmann, PH.D., it can give you a pretty good idea of the potential benefits of amino acid supplementation. There's so much more to learn on this topic and I'm still waiting for the definitive amino acid book. Unfortunately, most doctors don't have a clue.

Though this book is older, it has a lot of good information, especially for people wanting to learn about using amino acids to treat illness. I like it better than Amino Revolution. Its a quick read- short, but fully detailed.

leon chaitow show in this book the healing benefits of every amino acid that is known and the illnesses that they are capabale of healing, and they are very much capable. he also writes a word of caution to specific illnesses wich medicines are not allowed to combined together and in the wright dosages.many biochemical explanations on the amino acids of how they work in diseases are explained in a very readable way for everyone and the all book in general is enlightning.very recommanded!

This excellent book is a valuable guide to the therapeutic use of amino acids. It explains how amino acids function as the building blocks of protein, and lists the metabolic paths of the amino acids, the qualities of the individual amino acids and the disease states in which amino therapy can be helpful.

The author discusses the essential aminos (that the body needs to get from food) and the non-essential ones (that are made in the body), and how these relate and interact with one another. The co-factors (vitamins, minerals and trace elements) of the individual amino acids are covered in detail.

The author provides valuable information on the therapeutic application of amino acid therapy, including a summary of therapeutic dosages and cautions. Some of the uses include treatment of depression (DL-Phenylalanine, L-Tyrosine), insomnia (Tryptophan), cold sores (L-Lycine), detoxification (L-Cysteine, Glutathione) and wound healing (L-Arginine and L-Glutamine).

An appendix provides the amino acid content of certain common foods (besides meat, other excellent sources are eggs, milk, yoghurt and chocolate). The book also provides the contact details of various organisations and contains a thorough index. I also recommend he Amino Revolution by Robert Erdmann and Meirion Jones.

This book offers the most comprehensive and quality do's and don'ts for animals I have ever seen. A must for all pet lovers!

"Animal Nutrition" is one of the best books on nutrition I have ever read. Mr. Rowe has penned an easily read text with wonderful pictures. It educated, informed, made me think, laugh, and cry all at the same time. His stories are heartfelt and will connect to many a reader's own experiences. Our pet friends do so much for us ----- faithful to the end. Reading "Animal Nutrition" by John Rowe will be time well spent. Our Pet Pals deserve it.

*****I have loved and truely enjoyed all our pets. This attachment grows and you want your animals to live forever. Good nurition allows your pet to live a longer, healthier, active life. We want this for ourselves, so why should your pet be cheated. "Animal Nutrition" is a book about nutrition and many true pet stories. You will laugh, cry and appreciate these wonderful pets. These stories will bring out many of your own animal experiences. You have an obligation to be aware of the atrocities of poor nutrition. Saving a few dollars and selecting the wrong food for your valued pet is by far the worse possible step for a real animal lover. Read "Animal Nutrition" and discover a whole new way of taking care of your animals...becuase they surely take care of you. ##

If you think that the sales people at your pet store, or your veterinarian know all there is to know about animal nutrition, think again. John Rowe shares his experience and wisdom in pet care. Highlighting in particular the foul food by-products that many pet-food manufacturers sell as "healthy balanced diets". Good marketing and packaging may have made you overlook some common sense facts. A must read if you have lost a pet of "natural" causes and can't understand why.

This book is informative and very useful. My husband and I have both benefited by following the suggestions. W both are pain free and have recommended this to our friends who have mutual problems.
We continue to refer to this book and are becoming much more nutrition aware.
Great reference book.

I have been suffering from Fibromyalgia for over 15 years. Once I went on the ER4YT diet, my over-all health improved vastly... except I still suffered occasionally from Fibromyalgia. I bought this book, followed the diet & went on the 12 week arthritis protocol that he recommended. Not only did the pain subside during the 12 weeks, but also for the past year it has been much more manageable. The most difficult thing was finding the supplements in the dosages that Dr. D'Adamo recommended. Through the help of the internet I found all of them - most of them from Vitacost.com. It still amazes me that after a year of going on this protocol I am still doing so well. I am an O non-secretor.

Not the depth of some of Dr. DaDamo's major books but very adequate for someone with Arthritis. From here, someone, if interested, can dig deeper if they feel their arthritis was helped.

This book was very helpful to me. Excellent book! This was the answer to what I was looking for, i.e. eating and drinking the right things for my blood type to not upset my stomach. I ordered 4 more books for my family and friends.

This book is not only very enlightening, but it is also full of good ideas which make a difference. Thanks to Ed Taub!

A well written, motivating book. Dr. Taub takes the food,diet, and exercise corporations to the mat. Dr. Taub educates us on the corporate grooming of our nutritional needs.This is a scientific, truthful look at the myths surrounding how and what we eat. You will never look at milk the same way again. Good education on why and how our bodies function. Excellent suggestions for creating healthy habits. Easy to read, tough to put down. I've been following his suggestions for three weeks and felt better about my health in one. This is a book for life.

I have read all the "diet" books, from South Beach, Dr. Phil, Jorge Cruse, Atkins, The Raw Food Diet, etc. This book is by far the best of the best! Dr. Taub's book directs the reader in a whole different direction than any of the others. He talks about the mind set and how we allow the commercialization of food to rule and direct us in how we should eat. He gives plausible explanations for changing our eating habits and he does it with fun. He makes you want to make healthy changes. He covers issues that other authors do not. He tells the reader that you don't have to "diet", you don't have to count calories and you don't have to become an exercise guru. After reading his book, I know that this will be a lifetime change for me. I want to experience the joy of eating "living" food as he describes it and I don't ever want to taint my body again with the foods that he says are "dead" and do not give us any nutrition. I want to have a long, healthy life! I am 62 years of age and he made me realize that I am not too old to get started on this healthy way of life!
I am really excited about this book and I thank Dr. Taub for dispelling the ideas that others have set down about "diets", losing weight and eating healthy.

This is the best comprehensive book I've read on becoming healthy (and I've researched 'becoming healthy' extensively). It's written for the average person who wants to avoid prevalent diseases of the US (overweight, cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis...). It's easy to understand what you need to do and the effects are long-term. Best of all it doesn't take a denial approach to eating.

The reading goes quickly even though repetitive sometimes. The information is up to date and is what your doctor should be telling you!

Note: This book isn't as much for people who want to be 100% healthy, as it targets a broud range of people. If your goal is to be 100% healthy, I'd recommend looking for literature on raw or living foods, juicing, and colon care.